Film Record: Garden Truck

Still from Garden Truck in Movie Makers, Dec. 1945, 476.

Date produced: 1944

Filmmaker(s):

Albert D. Furnans

Languages:

English

Length:

200 ft

Format:

8mm

Colour:

Kodachrome

Sound Notes:

Silent

Sound:

With music on disc.

Awards/Recognition:

ACL Ten Best 1945 - Honorable Mention General Class
Home Movies' 1944 Annual Amateur Contest - Honorable Mention

Description:

"Albert D. Furnans has taken a group of charming people in a natural pursuit, truck gardening, and has developed a genuinely amusing "running gag"; the result is a delightful family film. Through an excellent sense of timing, he has sustained the "gag" with proper finesse until its final disclosure. The refreshing use of angles and the meaningful employment of lighting, together with good editing, bring balance and clarity. The entire picture shows the result of good planning and directing, and the filming keeps well abreast of these." Movie Makers, Dec. 1945, 496.

Resources:

The film won first place in a Kansas City Amateur Movie Makers Club film contest in 1944 (Movie Makers, Feb. 1944, 58).

Discussed in "Closeups" (Movie Makers, Sept. 1945, 328).

Subjects:

• Agriculture
•      Gardening
• Ethnology
•      Manners and Customs
•           Family life

Genre:

• Comedy

Form:

• Short

Screenings:

• Screened by the New York City 8mm. Motion Picture Club in 1946: New York City, N.Y.

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