Film Record: Evening at Home, An

Date produced: 1934

Filmmaker(s):

Arthur E. Ojeda

Languages:

English

Length:

250 ft

Format:

format unknown

Colour:

B&W

Sound Notes:

Silent

Awards/Recognition:

ACL Ten Best 1934, Honorable Mention

Description:

"Among the pictures awarded Honorable Mention is An Evening at Home, by Arthur E. Ojeda, ACL, a rare achievement in film planning — the family picture of interest outside the family. In it the father arrives home from his work and is greeted by the children. Soon, after the bedtime story, they toddle off upstairs, leaving the domestic stage clear for the grownups' dinner and the subsequently arriving neighbors. There follow a shaker of friendly drinks and a session of jigsaw puzzling after which the guests depart. The last lights go out and the film is over. Mr Ojeda's treatment of this theme is clearly sequenced, told without titles and mostly in closeups. Honorable mention was well deserved by the definite interest which he brought to the subject. With more perfect technical execution, an even greater honor might have been won by this family film." Movie Makers, Dec. 1934, 546.

Resources:

Noted for its closeup technique in Movie Makers (Nov. 1933, 446).

The film was available in the ACL's Club Film Library.

Locations:

• Mexico City, Mexico (Filming)

Subjects:

• Ethnology
•      Manners and Customs
•           Family life
•               Entertaining

Genre:

• Documentary

Form:

• Short

Tags:

Screenings:

• Screened by the Metropolitan Motion Picture Club in 1935: New York City, N.Y.
• Screened by the Hartford Cinema Club in 1935: Hartford, CT
• Screened by the Staten Island Cinema Club in 1936: Staten Island, N.Y.
• Screened by the Rio Grande Valley Amateur Movie Makers Club in 1937: Harlingen, TX

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