Film Record: Entitled to Success

Image from Movie Makers, Dec. 1938, 596.

Date produced: 1938

Filmmaker(s):

Charles J. Carbonaro

Languages:

English

Length:

700 ft

Format:

16mm

Colour:

B&W

Sound Notes:

Silent

Awards/Recognition:

ACL Ten Best 1938 - Special Class

Description:

"Produced for the Besbee Products Corporation, by Charles J. Carbonaro, Entitled to Success is something new in the amateur movie industry. It represents the use of movies to advertise a movie product; in this case it is the Besbee Universal Title Maker. In this film, Mr. Carbonaro maintains his usual high standard of photographic excellence, and he has introduced a number of ingenious technical tricks. The story is a delightfully and naturally handled tale of a new movie maker who acquires a titler and sets out to investigate its possibilities with the aid of his wife and a friend who is also an amateur filmer. The fresh, contagious enthusiasm of the real movie fan is effectively portrayed by the well directed cast, and anybody who has had the experience of buying a new cine accessory will not fail to chuckle sympathetically with the hero's intense delight as the story unfolds. The picture is beautifully planned and expertly edited and, best of all, it has the little touches that grow only from sincerity of purpose and understanding of the art of the cinema." Movie Makers, Dec. 1938, 617-618.

Resources:

Discussed by Carbonaro in "A Movie Making Sales Film" (Movie Makers, Nov. 1939, 557, 575-577).

Discussed in "News of the Industry" (Movie Makers, Nov. 1938, 549).

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

Subjects:

• Arts
•      Motion pictures
•           Moviemaking

Genre:

• Sponsored

Form:

• Short

Screenings:

• Screened by the Shreveport Movie Makers in 1938: Shreveport, LA
• Screened by the Washington 8mm. Movie Club in 1939: Washington, D.C.
• Screened by the New York 8mm. Motion Picture Club in 1939: New York City, N.Y.
• Screened by the Mt. Kisco Cinemats in 1939: Mt. Kisco, N.Y.
• Screened by the Brooklyn Amateur Cine Club in 1939: Brooklyn, N.Y.
• Screened by the Flint Amateur Movie Club in 1939: Flint, MI
• Screened by the Movie Group of the Telephone Camera Club of Manhattan in 1939: Manhattan, N.Y.
• Screened by the Wichita Amateur Movie Club in 1939: Wichita, KS
• Screened by the Los Angeles Cinema Club in 1939: Los Angeles, CA
• Screened by the Norfolk Amateur Movie Club in 1940: Norfolk, VA
• Screened by the Cine Group of the Schenectady Photographic Society in 1940: Schenectady, N.Y.
• Screened by the Dallas Cine Club in 1940: Dallas, TX
• Screened by the Oklahoma City Cinamateur Club in 1940: Oklahoma City, OK
• Screened by the Movie Group of the Edison Camera Club in 1940: Chicago, IL
• Screened by the Cine Group of the Schenectady Photographic Society in 1943: Schenectady, N.Y.
• Screened by the Amateur Cinema Club of Lancaster in 1949: Lancaster, PA
• Screened by the Taft Cinema Club in 1953: The Bronx, N.Y.

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