Film Record: First Christmas Gift, The

Date produced: 1940

Filmmaker(s):

Rudolph Rowland

Length:

200 ft

Format:

16mm

Colour:

B&W

Sound Notes:

Silent

Awards/Recognition:

Eleventh Annual Little Movie Party, 1940

Description:

"The First Christmas Gift is a 'first film'. It was made over a week-end, only two hundred feet of film were exposed to make a two hundred foot picture. This was part of the problem, for the film was a bit of 'home work' in the University course being pursued by the producer. Christmas actually having passed, it was necessary for the producer to manufacture the small Christmas tree used for atmosphere, and so also, the snow on the lady's coat was improvised from materials found at home on a Sunday" ("Program Notes," 1940).

Resources:

"Program Notes," Eleventh Annual International Show of Amateur Motion Pictures (1940), Margaret Herrick Library.

Subjects:

•      Christmas

Genre:

• Family

Form:

• Short

Screenings:

• Eleventh Annual Little Movie Party, 1940: Barbizon-Plaza Theatre, New York, NY

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