Still from Dad and I Took a Walk in Movie Makers, Dec. 1942, 488.
English
500 ft
16mm
Kodachrome
Silent
With music on disc.
"The recipe for a film like Dad and I Took a Walk sounds simple enough. You take equal parts of Father and Son, add a cupful of scenery, season with judicious pinches of natural science — and cook till done. The secret, apparently, lies with the "cook till done" section; so much depends on the cook. But W. W. Vincent, jr., is a good chef, to judge by the results from his cinematic oven. In clean cut, tripod steady Kodachrome, he and his son are seen roaming the pleasant Wisconsin landscape, with nicely timed pauses to point out, one to the other, a nesting robin, a praying mantis or a bright snake asleep in the warming sun. As the two men discuss their finds, spoken titles are double exposed against appropriate backgrounds or the pages of a bird manual are inserted naturally in full frame closeups. Dad and I Took a Walk is an attractive blend of personal filmdom's most popular subjects — field, family and fauna." Movie Makers, Dec. 1942, 508.
Discussed by James W. Moore in "A Triple Play Film" (Movie Makers, June 1943, 212, 232). The article discusses the film's combination of elements from family films, nature films, and animal films.
The film won first award in a Kenosha Movie Makers Club members' film contest in 1943 (Movie Makers, June 1943, 212).
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