Film Record: Consider the Lilies

Frame enlargement from Consider The Lilies in Movie Makers, Dec. 1936, 522.

Date produced: 1936

Filmmaker(s):

Fred C. Ells

Languages:

English

Length:

200 ft

Format:

16mm

Colour:

Kodachrome

Sound Notes:

Silent

Awards/Recognition:

ACL Ten Best 1936 - Honorable Mention General Class
American Cinematographer Amateur Movie Makers Contest, 1936 - Honorable Mention
Eighth Annual Little Movie Party, 1937

Description:

"In Consider The Lilies, Fred C. Ells, producer last year of the beautiful In The Beginning, continues his tender and loving examination of the natural world. When, at the close of this year's competition, his entry of 200 feet of 16mm. Kodachrome was viewed by the judges, it was found to be just that and nothing more. The lead title assembly, which was to be completed before the Ten Best deadline, had not arrived. But, in the half reel of chromatic flower studies which the judges were able to review, Mr. Ells has distilled a delicate beauty and lyric worship of flowers of the field which are breathtaking in their perfection. Seldom has the motion picture transmuted such pure loveliness from field to fireside." Movie Makers, Dec. 1936, 549.

Resources:

"Every scene of this year's Consider The Lilies came right out of Berlin, N.H., a sleepy New England village." Movie Makers, Dec. 1936, 565.

Locations:

• Berlin, New Hampshire (Filming)

Subjects:

• Nature
•      Plants
•           Flowers

Genre:

• Documentary
• Nature

Form:

• Short

Screenings:

• Eighth Annual Little Movie Party, 1937: Salle des Artistes, New York City, N.Y.

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