Film Record: Letter, A

Still image from A Letter in Movie Makers, Dec. 1943, 456.

Date produced: 1943

Filmmaker(s):

Henry E. Hird

Languages:

English

Length:

800 ft

Format:

16mm

Colour:

Kodachrome

Sound Notes:

Silent

Awards/Recognition:

ACL Ten Best 1943 - Honorable Mention General Class

Description:

"Henry E. Hird offers the framework of a timely continuity plan for a scientific record in A Letter. A naturalist father writes a film letter to his sailor son who shares the father's scientific interest in bird and insect life, as well as in floral beauty. We see the father writing and the son reading a letter, the information in which is brought to life in film. Mr. Hird is a very capable observer and movie maker, and the combination of these abilities has enabled him to offer, in this informal style, a wealth of information. Extraordinary sequences of nesting birds are included." Movie Makers, Dec. 1943, 477.

Subjects:

• Animals
•      Birds
•      Insects
• Nature
•      Plants
•           Flowers

Genre:

• Nature

Form:

• Short

Screenings:

• Screened by the Passaic Cinema Club in 1943: Passaic, N.J.
• Screened by the Metropolitan Motion Picture Club in 1944: New York City, N.Y.
• Screened by the Brooklyn Amateur Cine Club in 1944 and 1949: Brooklyn, N.Y.
• Screened by the Victorian Amateur Cine Society in 1952: Olinda, Victoria

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