"With an eye for the timeless and pictureque, Alec Paull of Colchester filmed these 1930s scenes on his travels by bike around Essex and the Suffolk border. The few cars, bikes and buses appear amongst snow-covered homes and gardens, and leafy country lanes where lambs and ponies graze amongst the spring blossom." (bfi.org.uk)
“Last year, marking the twentieth anniversary of the World War’s end, Mr. Gallet produced Vingt Ans Après, a color film with sound, which depicts activities of the French War Veterans of New York, of which he is a member.” Movie Makers, Jun. 1939, 347.
A golfer is knocked out by a golf ball and dreams his friends are ballet dancers as well as other surreal incidents.
"Documentary about Harrington, a small fishing village on the Manning River, New South Wales." (EAFA Database)
"B&W: views of Arrow Lakes scenery from a sternwheeler; arrival; the "Minto" at dock. Two men travelling by packhorse in the Lardeau. The steam tug "Beaton". Sequence on gold mining in the Cariboo, with footage of a hydraulic mining operation. COLOUR: Vancouver; Lions Gate Bridge and Stanley Park approach; city skyline. Trip on the steamship S.S. "Catala": views at sea; approaching settlement; people meeting the boat; log boom and sawmill adjacent to the dock. Alert Bay: views of village, store, homes, etc.; Indian children at play; schoolgirls in red sweaters [from St. Michael's Indian Residential School]; steamboat arriving; many shots of totem poles, graveyard, etc. Fishing fleet in harbour, preparing nets, and heading out to sea. Fishboat crew hauling in net full of thrashing salmon, and brailing them onto boat. Other fishboats setting their nets, hauling in salmon. Fishboat crew unloading salmon onto conveyor; shots of cannery wharf, female cannery workers. Savary Island: family vacation scenes; lodge; children at play; adults playing golf on beach at low tide; departing on a boat trip." (BC Archives)
"A record of the Indian rope trick, with magician, attendant and boy who apparently climbs the straightened rope and disappears. The boy is restored and tribute exacted from the crowd." (EAFA Database)
"The eternal hope that arises from doing the football pools. Shot in Brownhills, Birmingham and West Bromwich football FC Competition 1938." (EAFA Database)
"A Joint Production Committee film, complete with 'Teaching Notes', which sets out to describe the Skye crofter's seasonal employment in the salmon fishing industry of the 1930s." (EAFA Database)
‘Record of the building of a house. On screen title states "A specification for building a modern house in Dorset". The films proceeds through the following processes - Site inspection by architect and surveyor, clearing the site, laying trenches and adding concrete, bricklaying, placement of joists and lintels, installing outside staircase, building flat asphalted roof, foreman keeping an eye on works, adding steel balustrades, architect regularly inspecting, installing interior partition walls, installing internal staircase, electrically polishing downstairs wooden floors, painting, viewing the finished house’ (EAFA Database).
Title may actually have been been Nellie the Model.
"...an amusing film ... a lurid melodrama of the Gay 90s acted and photographed locally." ("A. G. Lawrence Heads Amateur Movie Club," Winnipeg Tribune)
"...although Nellie [sic] is not nearly so workmanlike in construction as Pioneer Daze, she is much funnier; largely because one of the old Mack Sennett chase type of sequences has been worked in. (Winnipeg Free Press)
Total Pages: 299
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