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Milton Dowe, Just Fences, 1938-1940. From 8mm film, Palermo Historical Society Collection, Northeast Historic Film. Scan by Joe Gardner.

Identifier:

  • 2310.0007 (Source: oldfilm.org)

Date produced: 1940

Filmmaker(s):

Milton Dowe

Format:

8mm

Colour:

B&W

Sound Notes:

Silent

Awards/Recognition:

Northeast Historic Film list of titled amateur works

Description:

"Another film capturing evanescence and making an explicit point about that intent is the 8mm work by Milton Dowe, Just Fences (1938-1940), a short visual catalog of split-rail and other fence types in the landscape with the on-screen title, 'Soon these will decay and be forgotten.' " (McNamara and Sheldon, Amateur Movie Making, 19).

Resources:

Discussed by Karan Sheldon in Martha J. McNamara and Karan Sheldon, Amateur Movie Making: Aesthetics of the Everyday in New England Film, 1915-1960, 2017.

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Repository:

Palermo Historical Society Collection, Northeast Historic Film

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