"[The Nutcracker Suite] was made in the Radio City Music Hall, during a rehearsal and one performance, with no assistance from the house, save only permission. It was a 'catch as catch can' affair for they had not the slightest control over lights or performances" ("Program Notes").
"doc. a fantasia"/avant-garde documentary
"doc. scientifico"/Scientific documentary
According to the filmmakers, "The scenario was our own—concerning the difficulties confronting a British telegraph company in maintaining communications between Uganda and the Sudan. A story requiring such foreign locale—Africa's desert, veldt and jungle—was written with the object of demonstrating to our audiences the cinema possibilities of our northeastern states" (111).
"Silent amateur film shot by John V. Hansen, engineer and member of the Amateur Cinema League, of a performance of Tyrone Guthrie’s Hamlet at Kronberg Castle, Elsinore, Denmark with Laurence Olivier as Hamlet. The first title card states that ‘the oldest metropolitan daily Berlingske Tidende of Copenhagen presents the Old Vic at Kronberg’. The second title states ‘snappy colour-shots from different angles of Scenes from Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’'. Film shows audience, cast getting ready and shots taken throughout the play" The Human Studies Film Archive via the British Universities and Film Council.
"'Eclipse over Peru,' a Cinecoles picture made by Charles Coles when he went with the Hayden Planetarium expedition to Peru for the total eclipse last year, is a gorgeous bit of colored travelogue" American Cinematographer, April, 1938, 173.
Total Pages: 299
Amateur Cinema