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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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


Bystander, The

Date produced: 1966

Filmmaker(s):

E. Van Herpen

Description:

"The Bystander is a study of a young, apparently bashful fellow who studies other boys and girls having a good time and imagines just what they might do as they pair off and trundle out into the night. He, himself, cannot muster the courage to join them" PSA Journal, Sept. 1966, 35.


Line, The

Date produced: 1966

Filmmaker(s):

D. Phillips

Description:

"The Line combines serious commentary with humorous visuals to tell us that in man's lifetime his joys (above the line) just about equal his sorrows (below the line.)" PSA Journal, Sept. 1966, 35.


Knife, The

Date produced: 1966

Description:

"The Knife is a deft little story film concerning a jealous husband who suspects a local artist of making time with his wife. Grabbing the artist's knife, he stabs the artist in the back, but the result is not at all what he, nor the audience, expects" PSA Journal, Sept. 1966, 35.


Jericho

Date produced: 1966

Filmmaker(s):

Frank Kallenberg

Frances Kallenberg

Description:

"Jericho is a little animated film concerning a couple of dogs which get into a fight and knock down the walls of Jericho. Kallenberg and his wife spent many hours searching for the exact plans and dimensions of the old Biblical town and built an exact replica for the film" PSA Journal, Sept. 1966, 35.


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