Film Record: Indian Summer

Date produced: 1947

Filmmaker(s):

Bert Seckendorf

Length:

400 ft

Format:

16mm

Colour:

Kodachrome

Sound Notes:

Silent

Sound:

Music score on discs

Awards/Recognition:

Home Movies 1948 Amateur Contest - Achievement Award, Best Photography
American Cinematographer Amateur Movie Makers Contest, 1950 - Certificate Award

Description:

"'Indian Summer,' properly may be termed a poem on film. Bert Seckendorf took his camera into the great outdoors one autumn day and photographed many beautiful autumnal scenes which he then skillfully knit together in a smooth flowing pictorial continuity. Scenes of colorful autumn foliage, falling leaves, blue Indian Summer skies, lazy rivulets carrying tiny sailboats of leaves toward the sea -all add up to an impressive ten minutes of screen entertainment. Seckendorf photographed this picture with a Cine Special and Kodachrome film." American Cinematographer, Apr. 1950, 146.

Resources:

The film won the Jay T. Fox Museum trophy in the Brooklyn Amateur Cine Club film contest of 1947 (The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Sept. 30, 1948, 18). It also won an award in the Mineola State Fair amateur film contest of 1947 (The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Nov. 6, 1947, 10).

Club Affiliation:

Brooklyn Amateur Movie Club

Subjects:

• Nature
• Seasons
•      Autumn

Genre:

• Documentary

Form:

• Short

Screenings:

• Screened by the Stamford Movie Club in 1947: Stamford, CT
• Screened by the Brooklyn Amateur Cine Club in 1948: Brooklyn, N.Y.
• Screened by the San Jose Movie Club in 1949: San Jose, CA
• Screened at the Asheville Festival of Arts in 1949 (The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Sept. 10, 1949, 2): Asheville, N.C.
• Screened by the Long Island Cine Club in 1951: Long Island, N.Y.

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