Film Record: Sightseer, The

Still from The Sightseer. Karl Spreitz and Collaborators Archival Film Collection.

Date produced: 1974

Filmmaker(s):

Karl Spreitz

Production credits:

• Karl Spreitz, Director, Photographer

Duration:

00:05:00

Format:

16mm

Colour:

B&W

Sound Notes:

Unknown

Awards/Recognition:

BC Archives list of titled amateur films

Description:

"A mechanical toy from 1880 walks through a landscape created by Michael Morris" Karl Spreitz and Collaborators Archival Film Collection.

Resources:

This film is also known as Mechanical Man.

Duffy, Dennis J. "Sightseer, The - S/39." Camera West: British Columbia on Film 1941-1965. Provincial Archives of British Columbia, 1986.

Mechanical Man (The Sightseer). Karl Spreitz and Collaborators Archival Film Collection, University of Victoria.

Locations:

• Saanich Peninsula, B.C. (Filming)

Genre:

• Experimental

Form:

• Animation
• Short

Tags:

Repository:

Karl Spreitz and Collaborators Archival Film Collection, University of Victoria

Video Link:

• via Karl Spreitz and Collaborators Archival Film Collection, with remixed sound

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