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Gangster Chileno o un Rapto Audaz, El [The Chilean gangster or a daring kidnapping]

Date produced: 1942

Filmmaker(s):

Julio Pelissier Fehrmann


Gone to the Beach

Date produced: 1942

Filmmaker(s):

Henry P. Sedziak

Description:

"...describes a Winter excursion to a popular resort." (Ottawa Journal)
"The First Sunday Winter Excursion to Victoria Beach [Manitoba] of February 25th, 1940. The Community Club. Steam train. Dog sled. Snowshoeing. The ice piled up near Patricia Point. Skiing near Moonlight Inn. Curling on rink behind Inn. Victoria Beach station." (LAC description)


Our Town

Date produced: 1942

Filmmaker(s):

Fay Cook

Description:

"...a colored moving picture shows points of interest in Winnipeg.and some parts of Manitoba..."


Land of My Dreams

Date produced: 1942

Filmmaker(s):

Joseph J. Harley

Description:

"Land of My Dreams, Joseph J. Harley, ACL, will tell you, is a simple record of fun and friends. As such, it is an attractive piece of Kodachrome, colorful in its camera work, leisurely in its pace (400 feet, 8mm.) and frankly sentimental in its outlook. Lake Saranac and the Harley summer cottage comprise the land of Joe Harley 's dreams, although his myriad friends of ten years' standing play a large part in that Elysium. You see them throughout the film, going about their fishing and boating, picnics and swimming with an infectious zest and good humor. The record is climaxed with a detailed presentation of a grand communal party, at which each of the guests is required to put on some sort of skit or bit of entertainment." Movie Makers, June 1944, 246.

Note of warning: the "communal party" referenced in the description above includes a performance in blackface.


Spy Scoop, The

Date produced: 1943

Filmmaker(s):

Arthur H. Smith

Description:

A group of children who film newsreels attempt to track down an escaped Nazi agent in their community.


It Crawls By Night

Date produced: 1943

Filmmaker(s):

Arthur H. Smith

Description:

Horror film involving a family, a lodger, and the lodger's spiders.


Everyone’s Coming to the Guild!

Date produced: 1943

Filmmaker(s):

Robbins Barstow

Description:

"Barstow created this depiction of the Hudson Guild, a community center in Manhattan's Chelsea District, while a "Boys' Group Worker" at the Hudson Guild Neighborhood House." Via Vimeo upload.


Giornata di caccia a Biandrate [Hunting Day in Biandrate]

Date produced: 1943

Filmmaker(s):

Italo Calvari

Description:

documentary fragments


Hudson Guild Farm

Date produced: 1943

Filmmaker(s):

Robbins Barstow


Outing of the Dachau Amateur Film Club, 1943

Date produced: 1943

Description:

"This outing was shot by a baker who supplied bread to Dachau concentration camp. . . . Another title reads: 'Der Ausflug des BDFA, 1943' [Outing of the amateur film club, 1943]." United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.


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