Film Record: Who’s A Coward?

Still image from Who's A Coward? in Movie Makers, Dec. 1949, 455.

Date produced: 1949

Filmmaker(s):

Carl D. Frazier

Languages:

English

Length:

700 ft

Format:

16mm

Colour:

B&W

Sound Notes:

Silent

Awards/Recognition:

ACL Ten Best 1949 - Honorable Mention

Description:

"Using black and white film, Carl D. Frazier has produced a tightly knit and well paced farce of a married couple and a burglar. Excellent lighting of wholly interior settings shows study of the monochrome medium and, properly exploited, how it can result in sparkling results. The acting is adequate for the simple plot, but it is the camera work and editing that make the film above average." Movie Makers, Dec. 1949, 472.

Resources:

Representing the Metro Movie Club, this film won the President's Trophy (first award) in a film contest sponsored by the Associated Amateur Cinema Clubs in 1949 (Home Movies, Dec. 1949, 644).

Subjects:

•               Married people
•           Thieves

Genre:

• Comedy

Form:

• Short

Screenings:

• Screened by the Metro Movie Club in 1949: River Park, IL
• Screened by the Brooklyn Amateur Cine Club in 1950: Brooklyn, N.Y.
• Screened by the Amateur Movie Society of Milwaukee in 1952: Milwaukee, WI

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