Film Record: Design in White

Still image from Design in White in Movie Makers, Dec. 1946, 470.

Date produced: 1946

Filmmaker(s):

Joseph J. Harley

Languages:

English

Length:

200 ft

Format:

16mm

Colour:

Kodachrome

Sound Notes:

Silent

Sound:

With music on disc.

Awards/Recognition:

ACL Ten Best 1946 - Honorable Mention General Class

Description:

"Joseph J. Harley, filmer of nature in her many moods and an understanding lover of great music, brings a subtle and beautiful study of ice, snow and wintry waters, which is presented with the recorded music of On the Shores of Sorrento, by Richard Strauss. Here was a problem of finding music that would meet the mood of the footage and of then so editing the latter that the climaxes, both musical and pictorial, would integrate. Although, of course, Sorrento lacks the ice and snow of Mr. Harley's film, yet Strauss's tone poem coalesces amazingly with the sparkling Kodachrome of winter which has been joined to it. Mr. Harley has elected to do something that, had it been done a quarter century ago, would have made cinematic history. In doing it, he has matched the best of the past and has added a new brilliance from his own abundant creative imagination." Movie Makers, Dec. 1946, 488.

Locations:

• Adirondack Mountains, New York (Filming)

Subjects:

• Nature
• Seasons
•      Winter

Genre:

• Nature

Form:

• Short

Screenings:

• Screened by the Mount Vernon Movie Makers in 1946: Mount Vernon, N.Y.
• Screened by the Metropolitan Motion Picture Club in 1947: New York City, N.Y.
• Screened by the Schenectady Photographic Society in 1948: Schenectady, N.Y.
• Screened by the Amateur Motion Picture Society of Albany in 1948 and 1953: Albany, N.Y.
• Screened by the Hartford Cinema Club in 1950: Hartford, CT
• Screened by the Amateur Movie Society of Bergen County in 1952: Bergen County, N.J.
• Screened at a meeting of the Men's Garden Club of Westfield in 1956: Westfield, N.J.
• Screened on the program "Friends of the Summit Public Library" in 1977: Summit, N.J.

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