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"Birds of Washington" by J. Don Sutherland, ACL and Ralph E. Lawrence, ACL
"Ciudad de la Paz "
by
Eduardo D. Di Fiore, ACL
"Fire-Fighters Field Day'
by
William Messner, ACL
"Grand Adventure"
by
Louise Fetzner, ACL
"Mountain Playground"
by
L. G. Darby
"Near Miss"
by
Barry W. Dance, ACL
"Paintings" by ~ George E. Canning, ACL
"The Big City"
by I
Richard Guetl
"The Carabi Incident"
by Harry W. Atwood, ACL
"The Israeli Story"
by
Oscar H. Horovitz, FACL
'What God Hath Wrought"
by
Leo J. Heffernan, FACL
"Woods and Waters
of Winterland" by
Herman E. Dow, ACL
are on the average an incoherent hodgepodge of over and underexposure, unsteady camera handling and wild panning on disconnected mementos of familiar milestones. Duck Soup, for those filmers who are lucky enough to see it, should change all that.
For here is a well planned and crisply executed family film which has a beginning, a middle and an end. It has also precise camera work, fluid sequencing, and lighting on the children which will delight the heart of all home filmers. Do not, however, let these disciplined excellencies mislead you. For, above all else, Duck Soup is no stodgy exercise in family record keeping. These people had fun\
Look . . . Duck Soup is a rollicking, rambunctious saga of what happens in a household when Pop, charging recklessly that the trials of homekeeping are "duck soup," is deserted for a few days by his deserving wife. What happens, as Pop gets the works from a quintet of utterly engaging youngsters, shouldn't happen (as they say) to a dog. There is stolid, well-meaning Tim, who, returning from the corner store, mangles a loaf of bread beyond all human use; there is demure and lovely Ellen, who plays the bride with Mom's best lace tablecloth; there are Greg and Kevin, impish and angelic twins, who roughhouse their way through the afternoon nap, bathing, haircuts and countless other high-spirited adventures.
And there is, finally, Gary, the baby, who bawls like a foghorn and is Pop's particular problem-of-the-day.
Duck Soup, in recounting these hilarious misadventures, is not a "great" film in the majestic sense of the word. (Majesty would be impossible in the face of that Lawler brood! ) But it is. family filming of the finest sort. It is warm, winning and alive with good spirits. Duck Soup is the best of the Ten Best for 1952 — and it richly deserves the Maxim Memorial Award which it has won.
Backyard Birding
Trim, tightly knit and altogether engaging, Backyard Birding presents, with affectionate attention to detail, a nature-loving father and his small son searching out the common and uncommon birds of their New England neighborhood. The film's pleasant music and informed but unassuming narrative are in sympathetic harmony with the pictorial whole.
In it, with apparent purpose, Herbert D. Shumway has employed a cloudy-bright lighting throughout. Thus, the countless closeups of his bird neighbors, as they build their nests and rear their young, are in soft, true and unshadowed color — as so befits the film's gentle theme. And, just in case you're wondering, these superb scenes (on 8mm. film, remember) are [Continued on page 337]