Film Record: Romance of Gloucester

Date produced: 1951

Filmmaker(s):

Bert Seckendorf

Languages:

English

Length:

600 ft

Format:

16mm

Colour:

Kodachrome

Sound:

With sound on discs

Awards/Recognition:

American Cinematographer Amateur Movie Makers Contest, 1952 - Top Ten Award Winner

Description:

"Bert Seckendorf is at his best documenting interesting places and events of this land of ours, and in editing and titling such films to impart sustaining interest on the screen. In 'Romance of Gloucester' he has focused his camera on both the interesting places and much of the contemporary life of Gloucester. His discerning lens brings satisfying multi-scene sequences of activities of Gloucester natives, instead of the one-shot treatment so often accorded such material by the uninitiated cine filmer. Result is, one experiences something in viewing this picture on the screen. Seckendorf's photography is clear-cut, discerning, and shows good taste in composition." American Cinematographer, May 1952, 222.

Resources:

Record of the film at the BFI.

Locations:

• Gloucester, Massachusetts (Filming)

Subjects:

•      Geography
•      Cities and towns
•      United States
•           Massachusetts

Genre:

• Travelogue

Form:

• Short

Screenings:

• Screened by the Amateur Motion Picture Society of Albany in 1952: Albany, N.Y.
• Screened by the Brooklyn Amateur Cine Club in 1953: Brooklyn, N.Y.

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