Film Record: Holiday with the Heavers

Still from Holiday with the Heavers in Movie Makers, Dec. 1943, 457.

Date produced: 1943

Filmmaker(s):

W. Lynwood Heaver

Languages:

English

Length:

200 ft

Format:

8mm

Colour:

Kodachrome

Sound Notes:

Silent

Sound:

With music on disc.

Awards/Recognition:

ACL Ten Best 1943 - Honorable Mention General Class

Description:

"Holiday with the Heavers is one of those rare films that display sincere artistic sensitivity that is manifestly not the product of technical skill nor the "slick" application of the rules of composition and film planning. It is a picture that promises that its maker — Dr. W. Lynwood Heaver — with more cinematic experience, might produce the finest type of amateur motion picture. Holiday with the Heavers is not a record of a family jaunt, as its title would imply. Rather, it is a scenic study of fall, enlivened by the presence of a three year old who investigates a park and explores the autumn leaves. Included in the film are beautiful and eerie shots of the late fall, effective silhouettes and charming closeups of the small actor." Movie Makers, Dec. 1943, 478.

Subjects:

• Ethnology
•      Manners and Customs
•           Family life
• Nature
• Persons
•      Children
• Seasons
•      Autumn

Genre:

• Documentary

Form:

• Short

Screenings:

• Screened by the New York 8mm. Motion Picture Club in 1944: New York City, N.Y.
• Screened by the Movie Group of the Schenectady Photographic Society in 1945: Schenectady, N.Y.

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