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What Your Camera Can Do

Date produced: 1956

Filmmaker(s):

Leonard W. Tregillus

Martha H. Hill

Edward M. Crane

Description:

"Does a fine job of demonstrating special effects and tricks, the cameras which can and cannot do them, how they are done and used. Very educational for any prospective filmer." PSA Journal, Nov. 1956, 45.


Casey At The Bat

Date produced: 1956

Description:

"A picturization of the famous poem of the same name. The film is cut to fit the stanzas of the poem and the final scene is Mudville's despair as the mighty Casey struck out." PSA Journal, Nov. 1956, 45.


Cuisine a la Francaise

Date produced: 1956

Filmmaker(s):

Bernard Krimphove

Description:

"The producer must be a chef because he shows the problems of making a Baked Alaska in the best French fashion. He does a very beautiful job of it, right up to the triumphant finish." PSA Journal, Nov. 1956, 45.


Belo Horizonte

Date produced: 1956

Filmmaker(s):

Oscar H. Horovitz

Description:

"This travelogue of Belo Horizonte in Brazil contrasts modern cities with primitive roads and countrysides. The narration is excellent and the film has a well developed musical score." PSA Journal, Nov. 1956, 45.


Appointment With Fear

Date produced: 1956

Filmmaker(s):

Julius Sergay

Description:

"A Hitchcock type film, the star's fear all being caused by an appointment with the dentist, but under the gas he dreams of meeting an attractive girl. But he wakes up just as it gets interesting." PSA Journal, Nov. 1956, 45.


Magical Carousel, The

Date produced: 1956

Filmmaker(s):

N. Clyde

Description:

"A short but poignant film of a crippled girl with a toy carousel which becomes very real to her. She dreams of visiting an amusement park." PSA Journal, Nov. 1956, 45.


Three Jacks and a Jill

Date produced: 1956

Filmmaker(s):

Frank Kallenberg

Description:

"A clever puppet-toon, the making of which was described in a recent Journal. Clever, full of gags, well done." PSA Journal, Nov. 1956, 45.


Is Zat You Myrtle?

Date produced: 1956

Filmmaker(s):

Paul Brundage

Description:

"Animated puppets, dogs in this case. Synchronized with a song of the same title and cleverly done." PSA Journal, Nov. 1956, 45.


Linda’s Dream, or Korn Tiki

Date produced: 1956

Filmmaker(s):

J. Edward Macdonald

Description:

"A well done travelogue of Hawaii showing the sports the tourist usually sees, the profusion of flowers, etc." PSA Journal, Nov. 1956, 45.


No Butts

Date produced: 1956

Description:

"About two people who read an article on cancer being caused by smoking, and who decides to give it up. Neither does, but their evasions make many humorous situations. They finally catch each other sniping butts and call the whole thing off." PSA Journal, Nov. 1956, 45.


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