Film Record: Interlude in Sunlight

Still from Interlude in Sunlight in Movie Makers, Dec. 1945, 476.

Date produced: 1945

Filmmaker(s):

Martin E. Drayson

Languages:

English

Length:

400 ft

Format:

16mm

Colour:

Kodachrome

Sound Notes:

Silent

Sound:

With music on disc.

Awards/Recognition:

ACL Ten Best 1945 - Honorable Mention General Class

Description:

"As an openly avowed disciple of Herman Bartel, one of the old masters of nature filming, Martin E. Drayson has been an ably and imaginative pupil. Seldom have individual scenes of such delicate beauty as his poured across the screen of personal movies. Interlude in Sunlight, like Mr. Bartel's work in Awakening or Pathetique, is essentially an effort to interpret, in cinematic imagery, compositions of music. As such, it is divided into three sections or movements, comprised pictorially of bees, flowing water and flowers. The musical scores which these interpret are Paganini's Moto Perpetuo, Massenet's Meditation from Thais, and Johann Strauss's Wiener Blut waltzes. Preceding these pieces (during the lead title assembly) and between the several sections, Mr. Drayson has elected the use of complete silence." Movie Makers, Dec. 1945, 496.

Resources:

The film won first prize in a Metropolitan Motion Picture Club "Novice Contest" in 1945 (Movie Makers, Feb. 1945, 61).

Subjects:

• Animals
•      Insects
• Nature
•      Plants
•           Flowers
•      Water

Genre:

• Nature

Form:

• Short

Tags:

Screenings:

• Screened by the Hartford Cinema Club in 1946: Hartford, CT
• Screened by the Metropolitan Motion Picture Club in 1946: New York City, N.Y.

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