Film Record: Movie News Scoops

Still image from Movie News Scoops in Movie Makers, Dec. 1951, 393.

Date produced: 1951

Filmmaker(s):

George Merz

Languages:

English

Length:

515 ft

Format:

16mm

Colour:

Kodachrome

Sound Notes:

Magnetic

Sound:

With sound on wire.

Awards/Recognition:

ACL Ten Best 1951 - Honorable Mention

Description:

"A bathing beauty parade in Florida, blessing the fishing fleet at Gloucester, a tomato throwing fight in — well, it doesn't matter. These are not, to be sure, true scoops in the journalistic sense of the term. But they do constitute what passes for news these days in the newsreels; and, under George Merz's competent camera treatment and incisive cutting, they most certainly make for good movies. Mr. Merz sustains audience interest throughout Movie News Scoops, working in a film form — the topical newsreel — which the amateur generally has found difficult." Movie Makers, Dec. 1951, 412.

Resources:

Added to the ACL's Club Film Library in 1953 (Movie Makers, March 1953, 81).

Locations:

• Gloucester, MA (Filming)
• Florida (Filming)

Subjects:

•      Motion pictures
•           Moviemaking

Genre:

• Newsreel

Form:

• Short

Screenings:

• Screened by the Amateur Movie Society of Bergen County in 1951: Bergen County, N.J.
• Screened by the Hartford Cinema Club in December of 1951: Hartford, CT
• Screened by the Metropolitan Motion Picture Club in 1952: New York City, N.Y.
• Screened by the Richmond Movie Camera Club in 1953: Richmond, CA

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