An elderly couple visits the beach, where they observe young people engaged in sports and romance. These sights prompt the couple to reflect on the story of how they met at the same beach in their younger years.
A film about a mother who thinks her family has won a competition in their local newspaper. When a series of unfortunate events happen after, the mother is relieved to find out she was only dreaming.
"[A comedy-drama] being told in practically all close-ups" (M.A.L.B 1931a: 8).
"[starring Miss Greta Van der Werff] ‘a lovely young amateur player, not yet twenty" (M.A.L.B 1931b: 2).
"A farce with slapstick effects" (HMHT 1933: 113).
The Examiner's Dilemma is situation comedy in color. These 11 minutes of entertainment by Kevin Keelaghan of Los Angeles covers all the phases of male thinking in spite of what's at home. It's about a day in the life of an examiner of applicants for driver's licenses. That in itself is funny—but Kevin adds a few little twists of his own," PSA Journal, Mar. 1970, 43.
"Using animated puppets and hand painted water color backgrounds, Charles H. Benjamin, in Fantasy in Toyland, takes a curious dog through the horrors usually reserved for white knights, to save a fabulous female canine in distress. The story is old but the treatment is new. The puppets were manipulated from below stage level and filmed frame by frame with a remotely controlled camera. The star of the piece meets cows, dragons and various beasts made of pine cones and other strange raw materials. The film ends on the accepted romantic note." Movie Makers, Dec. 1947, 536-537.
"Another form of humor is delightfully explored in The Farmer's Daughter, by Clarence Aldrich, ACL, a burlesque of the girl-hero-villain triangle. The chase sequence, without which no such film is ever complete, is beautifully handled with many a touch reminiscent of the Keystone days. The villain is properly villainous and libidinous, while the heroine is far more ingenuous than most of your friends are likely to be" Movie Makers, Dec. 1947, 506.
"Isabelle's next door neighbors - three bachelors - are asked to carry on for her, when she is stricken and hospitalized, in entering her prize orchid in the Garden Show. Their well-meaning but bumbling attempt to help her win the prize results in hilarious antics and a heart-warming conclusion to this delightful comedy" PSA Journal, Oct. 1963, 41.
"Romantic narrative by Rochester homemaker Marion Gleason that was used by Kodak to introduce home-moviemaking to the public." filmpreservation.org
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Amateur Cinema