"An abstraction made by scratching patterns on black and white film with a needle. The clear areas were tinted with acetate dyes - thus adding color. The visual images are fitted to the mood and tempo of a commercial recording. The film was made without the use of a camera and required no developing. A novel presentation. This will be blown up to 16mm and will be included in the Package," PSA Journal, Oct. 1962, 35.
"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.
"Little Soldier is a black and white film of 2 1/2 minutes running time that combines animation and real life scenes of war-torn world and the coming generation. A to-the-point film by Zack Burkett of Irving, Texas" PSA Journal, Nov. 1969, 57.
"Already well in the forefront of contemporary photoplay producers, Charles J. Carbonaro has taken a marked step onward in his current comedy, Little Sherlock. Simply planned yet smoothly integrated, this new production tells a delightful tale of the precocious daughter of a photographer, who was always "helping" father. How, during a surprise robbery of their home, she records the crux of the event with Daddy's amateur movie camera provides a denouement which is both satisfying and successful. In Little Sherlock, Mr. Carbonaro has more than maintained the suave lighting and impeccable technical standards for which his work is known; he now wins new honors with a display of genuine talent for light comedy direction. To both of these credits must be added praise for his own acting of the busy cameraman and for the portrayal of the eager apprentice by his own daughter, Alice." Movie Makers, Dec. 1937, 603.
"A delightful filming of the nursery story in which mother, daughter, auntie, and the family collie do the parts. Instead of the usual home movies we so often see, the Wolnezs have captured the family on film in a story that will delight all who see it, young and old. This will be blown up to 16mm and included in the Package" PSA Journal, Oct. 1962, 34.
"Fundraising film about Queen Alexandra Solarium for Crippled Children at Mill Bay, near Victoria." (Duffy, Camera West)
"Film about the Woodley’s at their place in the country." Library and Archives Canada.
"The Little Monastery by the Side of the Road by Peter A. Kransz, a PSA member of Niles, Ill. Peter has made this corny, but very clever, shorty film that will have everyone chuckling and wondering why they didn't think of it! This 3-minute 16mm film won for him a Ten Best medal and the Humorous Film Award" PSA Journal, Nov. 1970, 38.
Frances Schuster (about 17 years old) plays a 'sport,' while Paul Arbo (born 1895) is the guide who shows her the Maine woods. The cabin is at the Arbo house in North Brownville, Maine. Frances Schuster rises, dresses, lights fire. Arbo comes with pack and gun. They head out into woods. He cuts some spruce gum from a tree. Shots with 'binocular' effect of black bear and moose in river. Views of men working in Arbo's lumber camp on Ebeemee Mountain. The lumber camp cut birch for the peg mill in Brownville. Beaver flowage. Stan Howland, with basket pack on his back, stands by beaver dam. Faded color stock of Frances next to dead deer. At Ebeemee Lake man gets into and paddles canoe, Arbo and Frances get into green canoe. She walks to the cabin, goes to bed with boots on. Cabin shots particularly nice: fireplace, curtains. oldfilm.org
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