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"A Christmas Story"
by
Bert Seckendorf, ACL, and Vic Watson
"Adventures of Lassie"
by Raymond J. Berger, ACL
"Alaskan Gold"
by
Alan Probert, ACL
The toy boat becomes a pirate galleon of old, a flower a maiden in distress and a twig her gallant suitor, as there unfolds a tale of romantic derring-do. Under cover of darkness, the pirates plot to kidnap the lady, whose protector, a humble fisherman, is away at his nets. He returns, only to be bested in the ensuing sword play, yet, undaunted, he still gives chase. With the help of a friendly whale, he overtakes the pirates, frees his lady and, as the galleon goes down in flames, the lovers return to shore, to live happily ever after.
Then, as quietly as it all began, we are back at the edge of the sunlit pond. The boy lifts his boat from the water and turns homeward. And yet, through the true magic of the movies, we have entered for a brief moment childhood's enchanted world.
Highly imaginative camera handling, technical skill and a keen sense of cinematic values make this an outstanding example of personal filming. The musical ac
companiment and sound effects (including the clingclang-cling of clashing swords) complement the picture perfectly. Glen Turner has added a new dimension to amateur filming with this simple story so superbly told in its brief 350 feet of 8mm. film.
ESCAPE: Warren Doremus might have made in his Escape just one more film about Niagara Falls. But he did not. Instead, with unerring instinct, he has blended music (Wagner's Liebestod) with emotional imagery to produce a very nearly perfect small work of art. His secret seems to be great brevity and even greater selectivity.
In a film as short as this, flaws show up more strongly than in longer works. Escape has its flaws, particularly in a series of opening scenes presumably supposed to set the mood before the film proper begins. To these reviewers these shots do not seem quite suited to the main
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'Anytime After Six'
by
E. H. Sparks, ACL
"Bold Badmen"
by
Casimer V. Zaleski
"Caledonian Chronicle'
by
Esther S. Cooke, ACL
"Cornucopia Revisited"
by William C. Kuhl, ACL
"First Date"
by
John C. Sherard
"Gaspesia"
by
W. A. Levett, ACL