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Image from Movie Makers, Dec. 1938, 597.

Date produced: 1938

Filmmaker(s):

Albert F. Watts

Languages:

English

Length:

400 ft

Format:

8mm

Colour:

Kodachrome

Sound Notes:

Silent

Awards/Recognition:

ACL Ten Best 1938 - Honorable Mention General Class

Description:

"New England Holiday is the kind of travel film any movie maker should be proud to produce. Replete with human interest and a warm feeling of good fun, this two reel record is distinguished by a wealth of splendid compositions and natural camera treatment. Albert F. Watts has lavished on such typically New England subjects as Gloucester harbor, the fishing fleet or a clam bake the sensitive feeling of an artist for line and mass and the alert understanding of cinematics of a genuine movie maker. Smoothly integrated sequences have been edited with unerring suavity and liveliness, comprising a whole which is both vital and lovely to look at. The production is fundamentally weakened only by a selection of title wordings considerably less spirited and effective than the films which they accompany." Movie Makers, Dec. 1938, 620.

Resources:

Discussed by Watts in "New England Holiday" (Movie Makers, Oct. 1939, 504, 521-523).

Discussed in "Closeups" (Movie Makers, April 1938, 164).

The film was a "high ranking entry" in an Eastern seaboard interclub movie contest sponsored by the Metropolitan Motion Picture Club in 1938 (Movie Makers, April 1938, 181).

Locations:

  • New England, United States (Filming)
  • Gloucester, MA (Filming)
  • Buffalo, N.Y. (Filming)
  • The Berkshires, MA (Filming)
  • Boston, MA (Filming)
  • Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (Filming)
  • Rockport, MA (Filming)

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Screenings:

  • Screened by the New York 8mm. Motion Picture Club in 1939: New York City, N.Y.
  • Screened by the 8-16 Movie Club of Philadelphia in 1940: Philadelphia, PA

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