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Goyai

Date produced: 1966

Filmmaker(s):

Kevin McMahon

Description:

"Goyai our first 9.5mm film entry in many, many years, is a neat little package that portrays an elderly man who, in the twilight of his light, goes back to see the old homestead that he knew in earlier days. An excellent track is a great help to the mood of the film" PSA Journal, Sept. 1966, 35.


Little Swan, The

Date produced: 1966

Filmmaker(s):

William M. Campbell

Description:

"The Little Swan is an animated film using paper cut-outs, and is tailored to fit the music of the Swan Lake Ballet. A little girl cuts out the images and watches them dance through the air, only to be trampled under foot when her little brother and his friends get into a scrap over a football" PSA Journal, Sept. 1966, 35.


Magic Bottle, The

Date produced: 1966

Filmmaker(s):

Ed V. McWatters

Description:

"The Magic Bottle is a fantasy type of story with real life people acting out the parts. A crippled girl attending a beach party is seen by a drunk who, upon finding a lone bottle in the sand, is told that by finding the bottle he may have one big wish. His wish - that the girl may once more walk again" PSA Journal, Sept. 1966, 35.


Marble, The

Date produced: 1966

Filmmaker(s):

John Primm

Description:

"The Marble begins with two boys fighting over a game of marbles, and as one boy, Larry, chases one of the little spheres into the street, he is hit by a car and ends up in the hospital. His friend is deeply hurt over this, for he realizes it is his fault. He prays, calls on the local minister, does all he can to get his friend Larry to live. While at the church he has a vision that Larry is in church with him; then, in a flash Larry is gone" PSA Journal, Sept. 1966, 35.


Midnight Sun, The

Date produced: 1966

Filmmaker(s):

Frederick C. Harshbarger

Description:

"The Midnight Sun is a motion picture, done in time lapse, of the path of the midnight sun in Norway from early afternoon until the following morning. It has been shot many times in still pictures, but this may be the first time it was ever shot by an amateur in time lapse on motion picture film" PSA Journal, Sept. 1966, 35.


Monarch Butterfly, The

Date produced: 1966

Filmmaker(s):

Margaret McLeod

Description:

"The Monarch Butterfly, winner of the MPD Nature Film Trophy, depicts the life cycle of this well known butterfly and shows the various stages through which it must pass" PSA Journal, Sept. 1966, 35.


Narraburra

Date produced: 1966

Filmmaker(s):

Don Featherstone

Description:

"Narraburra is a slick piece of drama telling of the misfortune encountered by a prospector in the wilds of Australia who is thrown from his horse and breaks his leg. While his friends go for aid, a colony of meat ants find him and he knows that in a short while they will eat his flesh until he dies. How he keeps the ants from achieving their objective provides good cinema fare" PSA Journal, Sept. 1966, 35.


Once a Gentleman

Date produced: 1966

Description:

"Once a Gentleman. When businessman Jones starts home he notes a damsel in distress on the street and offers to fix her flat tire. After a few drinks-in-her apartment later, he receives a letter demanding $1000 or his wife will be told of what is going on. But the blackmailer didn't count on Jones' deductive powers to find out just what has been going on. The film also won the MPD Club Film Award" PSA Journal, Sept. 1966, 35.


Patterns

Date produced: 1966

Filmmaker(s):

Jack Pashkovsky

Description:

"Patterns is an abstract type of filming endeavor and depicts lines in mass and motion as created by reflections in rippling bodies of water" PSA Journal, Sept. 1966, 35.


Pioneers’ Progress

Date produced: 1966

Filmmaker(s):

Truman Smith

Description:

"Pioneers' Progess begins with the land rush into Oklahoma territory almost a century ago, then shows the result of this stampede and the progress that Oklahoma has enjoyed in the intervening years" PSA Journal, Sept. 1966, 35.


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