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Still image of Wildflowers in Movie Makers, Dec. 1940, 575.

Date produced: 1940

Filmmaker(s):

Robert P. Kehoe

Languages:

English

Length:

250 ft

Format:

16mm

Colour:

Kodachrome

Sound Notes:

Silent

Awards/Recognition:

ACL Ten Best 1940 - General Class

Description:

"Robert P. Kehoe, who won Honorable Mention last year with Chromatic Rhapsody, has "done it again" — only more so. In Wildflowers, with his own inimitable magic, he has gathered into light and color all the lazy loveliness of high summer. Here, as if he talked their secret language, bees drone and butterflies dance before his lens. Daisies and buttercups, the wild geranium and "butter and eggs" — a dozen flowers you do know and a score you have forgotten — nod in the warm sun with simple and unassuming beauty. Often, six blades of grass and a single bloom will comprise a moment of ineffable gaiety and song. The rough wood of a slanting black post gives accent to a field of daisies, or the delicate tracery of a "four o'clock" is a breath taking frame for a summer sunset. In Wildflowers, Mr. Kehoe has written once again a lyric testament to nature's incomparable loveliness." Movie Makers, Dec. 1940, 600.

Resources:

Discussed by Kehoe in "Down Among the Flowers" (Movie Makers, June 1941, 260-261, 280). In the article, Kehoe describes the simplicity of shooting a flower film, and offers a chart indicating the frequency of flower species as they appear in the film.

Locations:

  • Catskill Mountains, New York (Filming)

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Screenings:

  • Screened for New York City's Y.M.C.A. in May 1943: New York City, N.Y.
  • Screened by the Amateur Motion Picture Society of Albany in 1944: Albany, N.Y.
  • Screened by the Winnipeg Cine Club in 1945: Winnipeg, MB
  • Screened by the Philadelphia Cinema Club in 1946: Philadelphia, PA

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