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Sky Capers

Date produced: 1969

Filmmaker(s):

David Adams

Description:

"Pictures the sport of skydiving, showing how the participants jump from an airplane at high altitudes and free fall before opening their parachutes," via WorldCat.


Sky-Land Trails of the Kings

Date produced: 1940

Filmmaker(s):

David Brower

Richard Leonard

Description:

Subtitled: a story of happy days in Kings Canyon National Park.


Skylark

Date produced: 1932

Filmmaker(s):

D. W. Norwood

Description:

"Victor Animatograph Company prize of a Victor Model Five camera, complete with 2.9" Hugo Meyer Lens and No. 5 carrying case for the film which, in the opinion of the judges would most nearly qualify for a major prize, excepting for insufficient photographic quality, was awarder to Lieut. D. W. Norwood, Randolph, Texas, for his picture 'Skylark'." American Cinematographer, Jan. 1933, 25


Skyscraper Symphony

Date produced: 1929

Filmmaker(s):

Robert Florey

Description:

“The hard-edged graphics of 'Skyscraper Symphony' stand in contrast to other New York 'scenics' produced during the 1920s. Composed of skewed perspectives, Robert Florey’s camera looks straight up the domineering concrete behemoths. And it is hard to determine if the film mimics symphonic form as the title suggests or whether it advances a new methodology in musical-visual shot progression that reflects the alien structures depicted.” —Bruce Posner via Light Cone


Slaver, The

Date produced: 1932

Filmmaker(s):

George E. Mellor

Description:

[Also known as Foiled or The White Slaver]
"the story deals with the activities of a notorious blackmailer who gets a financier and his sister into his clutches" (HMHT 1932: 222).
"a crime story which has a background of blackmail and intrigue" (Lovell Burgess 1932: 17).


Sleep-Inn Beauty

Date produced: 1930

Filmmaker(s):

Dorothea Mitchell

Harold Harcourt

Fred G. Cooper

Lloyd Small

Description:

"SleepInn Beauty is a comedy situated around a bathing beauty contest based on a story adapted by Dorothea Mitchell. Filmed over two days North of Port Arthur near Mitchell's camp at Surprise Lake, Wally McComber (the "Goof" of A Race for Ties) played the leading man and Maye Flatt, the leading lady. Fred Cooper shared the photography duties with Lloyd Small and took a minor acting role. In addition, over sixty extras were bussed in from Port Arthur to take part. The film was never exhibited publicly although, considering Mitchell's efforts with A Race for Ties, it was most certainly shown privately." Ladylumberjack.ca


Sleeping Draught

Date produced: 1936

Filmmaker(s):

Henry Bulleid

Description:

"Amateur filmmaker, cinema historian and railway engineer H.A.V. Bulleid utilizes colour tinting and complex montage to create a surreal portrait of a young woman's dreamscape. Taking a sleeping pill before bed, Kathleen's worst fears come to life as the medication begins to affect her dreams. Surreal nightmares of love lost amidst the bleak countryside and love's unwanted return on the city streets, twist the boundaries between her unconscious state and waking life" (EAFA Database).


Slow Drying

Date produced: 1960

Description:

"A comedic film made by Chicago amateur film club Central Cinematographers about a man who paints himself into a corner." via Chicago Film Archives


Slum Clearance

Date produced: 1935

Filmmaker(s):

G. H. Hesketh

Description:

"'Slum Clearance' was in 8mm. It was a record of the tearing down of tenement houses of the old type and showing them replaced with modern apartment buildings. Mighty interesting characters were shown, occupants of the slum tenements, children, etc. A very colorful sequence was built up in the early part of the picture. The latter part of the film is given over to the new homes and to suburban homes where the more fortunate of the slum dwellers moved. A fine document and an interesting picture." American Cinematographer, Feb. 1937, 73.


Smith Minor

Date produced: 1930

Filmmaker(s):

Henry Bulleid

Description:

"Amateur filmmaker, cinema historian and railway engineer H.A.V. Bulleid presents a tale of brotherly rivalry. When Smith Minor - 'so little, he was lost in an Austin Seven' - is bullied by his older brother, Smith Major - 'so tough he slept on tin-tacks' - he is resolved to get revenge, once and for all. Employing the help of a friend and mutual enemy, he hatches a plan of vengeance, plotting to 'heave him over the quarry'. An altercation between two boys is followed by the introduction of Studious Stevens, 'so classical he couldn't fathom science'’ (EAFA Database)" [NOTE – EAFA database suggests this is an incomplete film].


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