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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


Documenti [Documents]

Date produced: 1939

Filmmaker(s):

Luciano Barberis

Description:

"documentario – che vuole essere l'espressione immediata ed esatta della tensione spirituale vissuta dall'Italia fascista, e in particolare da Napoli, durante la "settimana del mare" dell'anno XVII, il ritorno di legionari dopo la conquista dell'Impero. —I Littoriali del cinema: Un’altra interessante serie di documentari,” La Stampa, September 3, 1939"

"documentary – which is intended to be the immediate and exact expression of the spiritual tension experienced by Fascist Italy, and in particular by Naples, during the "sea week" of the year XVII, the return of legionaries after the conquest of the Empire."


Fairland Days

Date produced: 1939

Filmmaker(s):

Arthur H. Smith


Total Pages: 299