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Aiba kōshin [A March of a Favourite Horse]

Date produced: 1939

Filmmaker(s):

Mikiko Mimae

Description:

"Mimae edited together a sequence of her husband and their small son at home (the boy pretending to be riding his war-horse father), with a scene capturing a crowd of people offering silent prayers, which Mimae shot on location in Ginza. This topic and narrative structure demonstrate how her film visualized the social and political sentiments in a way to promote the war efforts, even though the film itself also appeared as a family film." - Noriko Morisue, "Filming the Everyday: History, Theory, and Aesthetics of Amateur Cinema in Interwar and Wartime Japan" (Yale University: PhD Dissertation, 2020): 203.


Old Building

Date produced: 1939

Filmmaker(s):

Eustace Alliott

Description:

"Brief shot of the Town Hall clock in Rothenburg" (EAFA Database).


Our Dogs

Date produced: 1939

Filmmaker(s):

Eunice Alliott

Eustace Alliott

Description:

"Film of the Chow Chow dogs owned, and possibly bred, by Eustace and Eunice Alliott in the mid/ late-1930s. Shot primarily in the gardens of the Alliott house in Amersham" (EAFA Database).


Pekinese Dogs

Date produced: 1939

Filmmaker(s):

Stuart Day

Laurie Day

Description:

"Film of two Pekinese dogs at home and in the country, detailing their development as they age. Set in the garden and the home of Laurie and Stuart Day, as well as in surrounding countryside, the film makes use of seasonal changes to record the ageing of two Pekinese dogs" (EAFA Database).


Rothenburg Town Hall

Date produced: 1939

Filmmaker(s):

Eustace Alliott

Description:

"Close study of the Town Hall Clock in Rothenburg and the activities of people at a fountain" (EAFA Database).


Sredni Vashtar

Date produced: 1939

Filmmaker(s):

David Bradley

Description:

"In a few days of doldrums before being called for training in the Army Signal Corps, David S. Bradley, presiding genius of Bradley Productions, scenarized, cast, costumed, filmed and directed a screen version of Sredni Vashtar, a short story by Saki. running 800 feet of 16mm. monochrome, the picture is the eighth in the series to be produced by this unusual amateur unit of Winnetka, Ill. having been directly preceded by Peer Gynt and Oliver Twist. It will be Mr. Bradley's last production until after the war. Working with him on Sredni Vashtar was John Jameson, assistant director, with the small cast played by Mrs. Herbert Hyde, Lucielle Powell, Lois Northrop and Reny Kidd, all Bradley Production veterans", Movie Makers, Apr. 1943,158.


Cortesella, La (Risanamento del quaritiere) [The Cortesella (Rehabilitation of the Quaritiere)]

Date produced: 1939

Filmmaker(s):

Ico Parisi

Carlo Costamagna


Death Valley

Date produced: 1939

Filmmaker(s):

Arthur H. Smith

Description:

Kodachrome travelogue of Death Valley, California.


Cronache del centro sperimentale [Chronicles of the Experimental Center]

Date produced: 1939

Filmmaker(s):

Carlo Nebiolo


Dentatura e la razza, La [The Tooth and Race]

Date produced: 1939


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