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Solduc To The Blue

Date produced: 1948

Filmmaker(s):

Theodore H. Sarchin

Description:

"The Blue refers to a glacier of majestic proportions high in the Olympic Mountains of northern Washington. Solduc, a small station in the Hoh Valley, is the point from which Theodore H. Sarchin and his two companions set out with high hopes to conquer the formidable ascent to the famous ice fields. Although they reach the Blue, the sun has been there first, softening the ice, and they must turn back without having attained the summit. Inherent in the film is a deep reverence for the wild, inspiring beauty of the scene, which clearly communicates itself to the audience — no small achievement in an amateur travel study. This reverence never becomes mawkish, the pedestrian titles and homely incidents en route nicely counterbalancing it. Superior camera work makes the most of the setting, while skillful editing combined the best elements of story and scene to make a dramatic presentation. An expertly scored musical accompaniment adds impressively to enjoyment of Solduc To The Blue." Movie Makers, Dec. 1948, 492.


Soleil Noir

Date produced: 1969

Filmmaker(s):

Roger Ayral

Description:

Soleil Noir bears a French title and was submitted by Roger Ayral of Paris. It is a very unusual film done in black-and-white that shows what can be done by projecting black and white designs on the dancing figure of a ballerina. Its 8 minutes is a little long for the subject, but it is different—an excellent study in designs and rhythm," PSA Journal, Mar. 1970, 44.


Some Birds and Beasts

Date produced: 1939

Filmmaker(s):

Eunice Alliott

Eustace Alliott

Description:

A compilation film comprised of, "eight short films featuring native British wildlife, farm animals, or country scenes, including foxhounds at their kennels and a family of travellers cooking a meal by a country road. The final film features a model of an English village with model railway and country scenes in miniature" (EAFA).


Some Experiments in Dufaycolor

Date produced: 1939

Filmmaker(s):

Eunice Alliott

Eustace Alliott

Description:

"Series of short films of gardens, landscapes and dogs. Footage includes the gardens at the Alliott house in Amersham and country locations near Amersham." (EAFA Database)


Some Glimpses of “Our Town”

Date produced: 1956

Filmmaker(s):

Joan Thurber Baldwin

Olthje Von Erpecom


Some Old Time Films

Date produced: 1911

Filmmaker(s):

Paul Tilley

W. Hope Tilley

Description:

"This film includes material originally shot by the Tilley brothers in the 1910s and 1920s. W.H. Tilley later edited, compiled, and transferred these clips to 16mm, adding caption from his perspective forty years later. Scenes of note include a Krit Motor Car demonstration (1910s), a circus parade on Congress Avenue (facing the Capital, 1912) in Austin. While the brothers worked commercially in filmmaking, these clips exhibit their practice as amateur filmmakers that captured footage of personal experiences" Texas Archive of the Moving Image.


Somebody Goofed

Date produced: 1955

Filmmaker(s):

Ernest Frederick Attridge

Description:

"The film contains twelve short vignettes that incorporate several cinematic techniques to comical effect." Library and Archives Canada.


Somersaults Moorside, August 1925

Date produced: 1925

Filmmaker(s):

Leonard Frederick Behrens

Description:

"Family footage shot in the grounds of a large house in Moorside; 1925. Some children and their nanny play on the lawn. A group of adults are seen having afternoon tea outside in the garden. Also includes shots of a young boy doing somersaults on a set of gymnast's rings. The camera remains stationary and several adults run into shot, in quick succession, and do a forward somersault using the rings. Even the nanny, who is in full uniform, has a turn" (NWFA Online Database).


Song After Sorrow

Date produced: 1939

Filmmaker(s):

Ray L. Garner

Virginia Garner

Description:

"Documentary: Illustrates plight of leprosy victims before and after the opening of the Bibanga Leper Camp by missionaries." National Archives.


Song of a City

Date produced: 1941

Filmmaker(s):

John A. Flory

Description:

"Although Song of a City was probably as carefully planned as any film could be, it still got out of hand and grew on its producer. Try filming a great metropolis yourself sometime, and you will begin to understand what John Flory faced in this splendid study of the city of Cleveland. For this is no simple record, content with the physical surface of streets and skyscrapers, ships and steel. Song of a City is a heroic canvas, seeking to present in dynamic imagery the inner significance and meaning of its vast subject, relating the ships and steel, the workers and the wealthy, to the pulsating life of their community. Mr. Flory's sponsor in this new form of industrial publicity was the Cleveland Trust Company, and it is to this institution that the film turns recurrently in presenting its message of finance in the modern world." Movie Makers, Dec. 1941, 568.


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