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HOME MOVIES & HOME TALKIES
BIG FILMS FOR BEGINNERS !
Christopher Brunei's film debut at the of four weeks— and, incidentally, it wai his charming grandmother's film debut
THE most encouraging thought to amateurs has just occurred to me. I have suddenly reaUsei that an amateur can, without great technical skill, produce a great tilm. Technical skill may make the film greater and as the film may take a lifetime to produce, there is a chance
for the rawest amatevir to acquire that skill before he him.self fades out !
The film I have in mind is the life of someone you are attached to — the life of your child.
Before elaborating this idea, let me tell you what I have done. As a cinematographer I am, like you, an amateur and when you see my film you will probably agree with me. The point I wish to make is that most of you are better skilled and better equipped than I have been in my work. First of all, I have been handicapped by having to work with expensive professional apparatus. The cost of negative, processing, transport and so on has been a big item. To do adequately what I have attempted has usually been beyond my purse, because at the time I started my film sub-standard apparatus really was in its infancy and 35 -mm. film was the only kind practicable.
After these excuses, let me begin at the beginning. Thirteen years ago, in June (the birthday montli of Home Movies and Home Talkies) my only child, John Christopher,
By ADRIAN BRUNEL
This story of a unique film, showing the life of Mr. Brunei's son, Christopher, from a baby in arms to a strapping boy of thirteen, should be an inspiration to every home-movie mai<er. The illustrations are all direct enlargements from the film.
was bom — just two months before the only child of my then colleague, A. A. Milne, was born. Without any' thought of competing with Mr. Milne's writing about his Christopher Robin, I began to film my John Christopher.
In a haphazard way I began by borrowing a camera and taking a few shots of the child. The results were of such real interest to the family that I was encouraged to take more,
until at last it grew into an accepted fact that I was making a film of the boy's life — so I continued.
Never have I 'at any time given really serious thought to it as a film — primarily for the reason that every 400 foot roll of jirocessed film would cost me £7 4s. 7d., to flay nothing of the
Above : Nearly a year old
On right : At four he was travelling in Africa
On left : Three years— and getting usefu
Awaiting his guests on his fifth birthday