Image from I'd Be Delighted To! in Movie Makers, Dec. 1936, 534
Identifier:
- 3436 (Source: East Anglian Film Archive)
Date produced: 1932
Filmmaker(s):
S. Winston Childs
Languages:
English
Duration:
00:12:30
Length:
1 reel (400 ft)
Format:
16mm
Colour:
B&W
Sound Notes:
Silent
Awards/Recognition:
ACL Ten Best 1932, Honorable Mention
American Cinematographer Amateur Movie Makers Contest, 1932 - Third Place
American Cinematographer Amateur Movie Makers Contest, 1932 - Equipment Prize, Bell & Howell Company, choice of Standard Cooke Telephoto Lens
IAC Film Collection, East Anglian Film Archive
Description:
"I'd Be Delighted To!, directed and photographed by S. Winston Childs, jr., ACL, is that kind of production often planned but seldom made — a film story told entirely in closeups. Presenting the simple incident of a dinner a deux in a gentleman's apartment, the picture runs through 400 feet of brilliantly chosen, strikingly filmed, significant closeups. It is adroit, amusing and sophisticated, and a splendid example of what, with skill and care, can be done in this distinctly advanced amateur filming method." Movie Makers, Dec. 1932, 562.
Resources:
S. Winston Childs, jr. writes on filming exclusively in closeups in "The Closeup's The Thing" (Movie Makers, Feb. 1933, 65, 78).
An ad in Movie Makers (Feb. 1933, 91) for Bell & Howell's Filmo camera references I'd Be Delighted To! as an award-winning amateur film shot with a Filmo.
The film was available in the ACL's Club Film Library.
This original version of this film, which contains a "risqué" ending, is held by the Yale Film Archive. A copy is also available in the Institute of Amateur Cinematographers collection at the East Anglian Film Archive; EAFA's print omits the risqué ending.
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Repository:
Institute of Amateur Cinematographers Collection, East Anglian Film Archive;
Yale Film Archive
Screenings:
- Screened at Eastman's Little Theatre on Dec. 6, 1932: Hollywood, CA
- Screened by the Chicago Cinema Club in 1933: Chicago, IL
- Screened by the Kansas City Cinema League at the Edison Memorial Hall in 1933: Kansas City, MO
- Screened by the Milwaukee Junior Association of Commerce Cinema Club in 1934: Milwaukee, WI
- Screened by the Telephone Camera Club of Manhattan in 1934: Manhattan, N.Y.
- Screened by the Sixteen Movie Club in 1935: Akron, OH
- Screened by the Buffalo Amateur Cinema Club in 1935: Buffalo, N.Y.
- Screened by the Los Angeles 8mm. Club in 1936: Los Angeles, CA
- Screened by the Nederlandsche Smalfilmliga in 1936: Emmastad, Curaçao
- Screened by the Aruba branch of the Nederlandsche Smalfilmliga in 1936: Aruba
- Screened at a Philadelphia Cinema Club "shorts" contest in 1945: Philadelphia, PA
- 11th Orphan Film Symposium, April 13, 2019: Queens, NY
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Video Link:
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