Item number (ISN):
352281
Fonds/collection:
WOODLEY, Charles Devenish
General access conditions for collection
Reproduction access:
- With written permissions / Avec les permissions écrites
Accession number:
2004-0059
Production date:
1949/1955 ?
Production company:
- Woodley, Charles Devenish and Jack Grassick (Photographers)
Production Credit:
- photography/editing/scenario, Charles Devenish Woodley; Jack Grassick
Description:
- Film about how to make films. It shows: a man outdoors running past a man who is standing with a hand-cranked camera on a tripod; close-up of marching feet; stock footage of 1920s bathing beauty contestants; building in background; man running into a stadium; intertitle about the importance of correct exposure; man with camera holding an exposure metre; another man comes along, speaks into the exposure metre as if it is a microphone and moves off; intertitle about the importance of camera angles; shot of lopsided camera angle; man walking along; intertitle about the impact of colour; scene of the man transforms into a Norman McLaren-like scratched-animation colour sequence, ending with a stick figure; stick figure turns into a red circle shape and then is juxtaposed onto the “O” of a woman’s lips; child eating a sandwich; intertitle indicating a pause for refreshment, playing on the Coca-Cola slogan; cut to people drinking soft drinks; more shots of people eating sandwiches, interspersed with stock footage of camels and other animals eating; back to scenes of people eating at a picnic; man blows into a paper bag; intertitle about the importance of motion; man running; footage of speed boats and water skiers (probably taken at the Canadian National Exhibition); train; amusement park rides; man jumping into water; train; skating; intertitle about splicing; shot spliced upside down; more scenes of man running and another man with camera; the cameraman sighs and smiles; trick photography shot of man moving up stairs and through objects without seeming to move legs in a sequence reminiscent of McLaren’s stop-motion and pixillation work; similar trick shots of man moving along the ground; trick shots of man moving up wall and ceiling of a room; man running to camera and concluding shot of the cameraman, his back to the camera with a sheet of paper, marked “The End” attached to the back of his coat. <7mn 30s>
Language:
- Silent with English intertitles
Copyright Status:
Under copyright.
Copyright Owner:
- copyright owner : estate of Charles Devenish Woodley
Restrictions on Consultation:
No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions
Notes:
- 1. Identification of the footage completed with the assistance of Bill Woodley, son of Charles Devenish Woodley.
- 2. Source of title: head title on screen.
- 3. Intertitle says this is "A Sickley Production", which is a joke name invented by combining the names of Grassick and Woodley.
- 4. A brief segment of this footage was used in the National Film Board documentary MY FATHER'S CAMERA.
Source:
DSINTRNL - 352281
