A golfer is knocked out by a golf ball and dreams his friends are ballet dancers as well as other surreal incidents.
"Sweeping in its conception, stirring in its execution, Then Came the King is a vivid and beautiful epic of honest patriotism. In it, Earl L. Clark has examined the Western way of life, and he has found it good. With elaborate but never exhausting detail, the film traces the history of Canada — and more briefly her American neighbor — from 1800 to the present day. Then, in a world challenged by war and a Canada accused of waning fealty to the Empire, Then Came the King pictures with a magnificent climax the deep and unfaltering affection in which a loyal people hold their rulers. People of all classes and occupations are shown saluting Their Majesties. Sensitively planned and superbly titled, the film very definitely has something to say — and says it with distinction. Viewpoint after viewpoint strikes sensuously on the eye as exactly right for the effect desired. Sequence after sequence marches down the screen with the brave and stirring rhythms of epic poetry. On a few occasions, Mr. Clark's striking imagination has outstripped his straining technical skill, but. from his first frame to his last, the work is stamped unerringly with a fresh and genuine creative spirit." Movie Makers, Dec. 1939, 632.
This film was produced at some time in the 1950s.
The Totem Group was a club within the Victoria Amateur Movie Club -- a sub-group of 16 mm users that banded together to produce their own film, The Princess and the Frog "... a nine-minute, black-and-white, sound-striped fiction story written by member Walter George." (Sharcott)
"Still others such as Dean Holt have produced [a] comedy, The Magic Pistol, a skit about how to cut the lawn." (Sharcott)
"Library service in the Fraser Valley, funded by the Carnegie Corporation. Follows a bookmobile from community to community, and depicts various aspects of the library service. Shots of places visited, rural landscape, and the Agassiz-Rosedale ferry." (BC Archives)
The film was sponsored by the British Columbia Public Library Commission Of which H. Norman Lidster was chairman).
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Amateur Cinema