Film Record: Through the Valley

Still image from Through the Valley in Movie Makers, Dec. 1949, 455.

Date produced: 1947

Filmmaker(s):

Harry W. Atwood

Languages:

English

Length:

250 ft

Format:

8mm

Colour:

Kodachrome

Sound Notes:

Silent

Sound:

With music on disc.

Awards/Recognition:

Home Movies' 1947 Annual Amateur Contest - Third Award, Scenario Class
ACL Ten Best 1949 - Honorable Mention General Class

Description:

"Basing his story line on an incident which is said actually to have occurred in Sweden, Harry W. Atwood has proved once again in Through the Valley his imaginative understanding of what makes a true motion picture. For here is camera work of the first order, expressed in meaningful angles and building through a stirring chase sequence to a point of very real dramatic tension. If anything, the film's climax has been staged with a shade too much of melodrama, while a concluding quotation from the Scriptures left these reviewers regretfully more puzzled than uplifted." Movie Makers, Dec. 1949, 471.

Resources:

This film is a part of the Harry Atwood Film Collection held by the University of Texas at Austin.

Reviewed in "Recent Reviews of Readers' Films" (Home Movies, March 1947, 182).

The film was first prize winner in the "Scenario" class of a Smoky Mountain Movie Club amateur movie salon in 1949 (Home Movies, Nov. 1949, 590).

Subjects:

•      Manners and Customs
•      Murder
•      Bible

Genre:

• Chase

Form:

• Short

Repository:

Harry Atwood Film Collection, 1949-1995, The University of Texas at Austin

Screenings:

• Screened by the Smoky Mountain Movie Club in 1949: Asheville, N.C.
• Screened by the Amateur Cinema Club of Buffalo in 1950: Buffalo, N.Y.

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