Film Record: Garden Life

Date produced: 1936

Filmmaker(s):

Eugene L. Ritzmann

Languages:

English

Format:

16mm

Colour:

Kodachrome

Sound Notes:

Silent

Awards/Recognition:

American Cinematographer Amateur Movie Makers Contest, 1937 - Equipment Prize, Harrison & Harrison.

Description:

"Harrison and Harrison's offer of the firm's color meter in leather case, with six 1 1/4 -inch meter-matched filters in leather filter fold, was awarded Eugene L. Ritzmann of Berkeley, Cal., for his 'Garden Life.' The entrant has been making amateur movies for nine years, and his skilled work in putting on the screen in color by means of controlled timing the blooming of flowers demonstrated that his period of apprenticeship has long since expired. If a word of suggestion and distinctly not of criticism might be offered it would be the film would have greater value for the uninformed if titles should be inserted identifying the various flowers. The subject caused some tough eggs of the male persuasion to sit up and take notice. What it will do to the world of womankind it is not hard to imagine." American Cinematographer, Jan. 1938, 28.

Resources:

Shot using Model A and Model K Eastman cameras, and Eastman Daylight Kodachrome and Type A Kodachrome film (American Cinematographer, Jan. 1938, 27).

Subjects:

• Agriculture
•      Gardening
• Arts
•      Motion pictures
•           Time lapse cinematography
• Nature
•      Plants
•           Flowers

Genre:

• Nature

Form:

• Short

Screenings:

• Screened by the Greater Oakland Motion Picture Club in 1939: Oakland, CA
• Screened for the East Bay Children's Hospital and the Livermore Veterans Memorial Hospital in 1940: Livermore, CA
• Screened by the Indianapolis Amateur Movie Club in 1941: Indianapolis, IN

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