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Chippewa Handicraft

Date produced: 1939

Filmmaker(s):

Monroe Killy

Description:

"This film shows the Kegg family stripping basswood and birch barks and using the bark to make baskets and canoes." Worldcat.org


Super Colossal Production, A

Date produced: 1939

Filmmaker(s):

Arthur H. Smith

Description:

Comedic short film about an amateur movie club called Super Colossal Pictures.


Sugar Bush

Date produced: 1939

Filmmaker(s):

Monroe Killy

Description:

"Shows maple sugar making, including collecting the maple sap, boiling the sap down to make syrup and beating it to make sugar cakes. Participants are the Martin Kegg and Day families and the camp site is on the west shore of Lake Mille Lacs on Sherman Point." Minnesota Historical Society.


Royal Visit, A

Date produced: 1939

Filmmaker(s):

Austin J. Alexander

Description:

"Home movie film record of the 1939 royal visit by King George VI, showing preparations on the streets of Vancouver and the vicinity of the Hotel Vancouver, a parade, and the royal motorcade" British Columbia Archives.


Isola dei pescatori [Island of the Fishermen]

Date produced: 1939

Filmmaker(s):

Achille De Francesco


Itinerari di Albania [Itineraries of Albania]

Date produced: 1939

Filmmaker(s):

Vittorio Gallo

Description:

"documentario"/documentary -

"un complesso vivace e policromo di visioni del paesaggio e della vita di Albania"—"I Littoriali del cinema: Un’altra interessante serie di documentari,” La Stampa, September 3, 1939

"...a lively, polychromatic complex of visions of Albania's landscape and life."


Skis Over Skoki

Date produced: 1939

Filmmaker(s):

John C. Jay, Jr.

Description:

"Filmed by John C. Jay, Jr., ACL, of Williams College, Skis Over Skoki was shown recently at the Eleventh Annual Show of Amateur Motion Pictures, sponsored by Duncan MacD. Little, ACL. Mr. Jay's film, which is 400 feet of 16mm. Kodachrome, accompanied by sound on disc, was made for the Canadian Pacific Railway and will be shown by them to major ski clubs throughout the country. The film outlines a short story of a girl who, having grown bored with the usual mountain trails, leaves her guide during one of the downhill runs and starts over treacherous territory alone. How she ends her journey and what happens en route are shown by Mr. Jay in some of his finest pictures of skiing, a field in which he is an expert. He has made several films of skiing in the past" Movie Makers, June, 1940, 279.


Lassù sulla montagna [Up There on the Mountain]

Date produced: 1939

Filmmaker(s):

Millozza Luigi

Massimo Marciano

Description:

"documentario" "sull'attività svolta al VII campo alpino con speciale riguardo a quella della palestra di allenamento"

"documentary" "on the activity carried out at the VII alpine camp with special regard to that of the training gym."
—"I Littoriali del cinema: Un’altra interessante serie di documentari,” La Stampa, September 3, 1939


Lavoratori del marmo, I [The Marble Workers]

Date produced: 1939

Filmmaker(s):

Bruno Marini

Description:

"documentario con" -"interessante visione del lavoro nelle cave di marmo di Apuania"

documentary offering" -"interesting view of work in the marble quarries of Apuania."


Mare ti vogliamo navigare [Sea We Want To Sail You]

Date produced: 1939

Filmmaker(s):

Flore Lorenzo

Description:

"documentario sull'attività marinara del giovani d'Italia prima del loro ingresso nei collegi e Accademie navali"

"documentary on the marine activity of the youth of Italy before their entry into the Naval Colleges and Academies"

—I Littoriali del cinema: Un’altra interessante serie di documentari,” La Stampa, September 3, 1939


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