"In 1934, amateur filmmaker Neil P. Horne made a full-length film to capture the spirit of Belleville, New Jersey." movingimagearchivenews.org
A film documenting the work of deep-sea fishermen aboard steam trawler "Trier".
"Below Zero, as its name implies, was filmed entirely at temperatures which varied between —5° and —32°. The film was made, at Chapeau de Paille, over the Lincoln's Birthday week-end of 1940, and during one of the nights that the producer spent there, the mercury dropped to —42°. Chapeau de Paille is the 'Headquarters Depot' of one of the largest logging-operations in Northern Quebec, in the 'Haute Mauricie'. This short bit, in color, gives some slight idea of another, longer, film (in black and white) entitled, 'Life in the Northern Bush', which follows the activities of the Lumber-jack, through the seasons, from the first cutting in the fall until the next summer, when the logs are delivered at the mills" ("Program Notes," 1940).
“Beyoğlu 68 Üzerine Beyoğlu’nu filme çekmeye karar verdik. Artun yönetecek, ben kamerayı kullanacaktım. Güç bela birkaç kutu pelikülle 16 mm.lik bir kamera edindik ve Mayıs 68’de Beyoğlu’na çıktık. Artun bana kaydedilmesini istediği şeyleri gösteriyor, ben çekiyordum. Amaç tüketim toplumunu eleştirmekti ama senaryo yoktu. İşin kurguda bağlanacağını biliyorduk […].” Jak Şalom, sinematek.tv: http://sinematek.tv/beyoglu-68/ (25 October 2019).
“On Beyoğlu 68: ‘We decided to film Beyoğlu. Artun had to direct it and I was responsible for the camera operations. We hardly found a box of unexposed film as well as a 16mm camera and started wandering around Beyoğlu. Artun was telling me what to shoot and I was recording. The purpose was to critique consumer society, but there was no script. We knew that we need to deal with it during the process of montage’ […].” Jak Şalom, sinematek.tv: http://sinematek.tv/beyoglu-68/ (25 October 2019).
"Billy Joe's Art Studio, a black and white film, was winner of the Best Student Film Award by Stan Feingold of Lansdale, Pa. It's a "doing-your-thing" film. In nine minutes, Billy Joe tells (and shows) us why he is no longer a construction worker and why he feels that his "life" is in his art studio. A real example of positive thinking. The film is a little slow in spots, but is quite convincing about "doing-your-own-thing"," PSA Journal, Mar. 1970, 43.
"documentario a fantasia"/avant-garde documentary
"...che tratta della vita gioiosa dei bimbi in una delle tante colonie elioterapiche volute dal Duce per la sanità della stirpe."— I Littoriali del cinema: Un’altra interessante serie di documentari, La Stampa, September 3, 1939
"...which deals with the joyful life of children in one of the many heliotherapeutic colonies wanted by the Duce for the health of the lineage." — I Littoriali del cinema: Un’altra interessante serie di documentari, La Stampa, September 3, 1939
"Documentary on the nesting and feeding habits of birds found in Norfolk and Lincolnshire and filmed from a hide over a two-month period. Birds seen are: common plover, redshank, whooper swan, mute swan, bittern, ringed plover, oyster catcher, black-head gull, bearded tit, sedge warbler, reed bunting, red hawk, snipe and Montagu's harrier." (EAFA Database)
"The film concentrates on the birds, particularly the common tern, the little tern and the oyster catcher" (EAFA Database).
"Documentary on smoke pollution and the effects it has on people's health." (EAFA Database)
"There are precious few sails in this production which William Messner has called Blades and Sails. But there is a powerful lot of cinema in its smooth 650 feet of Kodachrome. And there is a wealth of flashing blades. The blades are bandied about by Ernest Riedel, a gaunt length of rawhide and muscle, otherwise known as the national, international and Olympic canoe champion. During the smoothly plotted course of Riedel's exposition of canoeing techniques. Mr. Messner demonstrates his own championship calibre behind the camera. His angles are so right as to seem effortless — though you suspect they're not. His follow-through is as deft as a sweeping blade and his cutting as crisp as a speeding birchbark. Blades and Sails is informative, entertaining and sound cinema — which is quite a combination in any man's movie." Movie Makers, Dec. 1951, 410.
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