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Frame enlargement from Camp Pinnacle in Movie Makers, Dec. 1936, 522.

Date produced: 1936

Filmmaker(s):

Robert F. Gowen

Country of Production:

United States

Languages:

English

Length:

600 ft

Format:

16mm

Colour:

Kodachrome

Sound Notes:

Silent

Awards/Recognition:

ACL Ten Best 1936 - Honorable Mention Special Class

Description:

"The fact that the film, Camp Pinnacle, made by Robert F. Gowen, was provided with a clear spoken accompaniment served to enhance the workmanlike excellence of its cinematic presentation. Since it was a film made, avowedly, to sell to prospect parents the advantages of Camp Pinnacle, it would hardly have been fair to look for those more delicate nuances of atmosphere and sequence which may become a labor of love in the more personal film. Thus Camp Pinnacle was chosen for its excellence as a straightforward exposition, in glowing color, of every interesting aspect of the lives of the lads and their counselors at camp. In setting this forth, Mr. Gowen has chosen simple, natural sequences and has interpreted these with technical excellence and secure knowledge of the Kodachrome medium." Movie Makers, Dec. 1936, 551.

Resources:

Gowen discusses shooting summer camp films in "Three Kinds of Camp Films" (Movie Makers, July 1940, 334, 349-350).

Locations:

  • Lyme, N.H. (Filming)

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Screenings:

  • Screened by the Mt. Kisco Cinemats in 1935 and 1936: Mt. Kisco, N.Y.

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