Film Record: It’s V-E Day

Still image from It's V-E Day in Movie Makers, Dec. 1946, 470.

Date produced: 1945

Filmmaker(s):

Terry Manos

Languages:

English

Length:

125 ft

Format:

8mm

Colour:

Kodachrome

Sound Notes:

Silent

Sound:

With music and sound effects on disc.

Awards/Recognition:

ACL Ten Best 1946 - Honorable Mention General Class

Description:

"An eye for topical touches and a persistence that would shame the most aggressive news cameraman are responsible for Terry Manos's success in recording the V-E Day activities in New York City. Without the aid of a telephoto lens and balked at every turn by finicking guards, Mr. Manos's camera nevertheless caught the full flavor of the celebration in Times Square as well as some amazingly sharp studies of the personalities who participated in the program at Central Park. For ignoring the theoretical limitations often ascribed to the 8mm. camera and producing a well knit movie of a great historical event, praise is due to an enterprising amateur." Movie Makers, Dec. 1946, 488.

Resources:

Reviewed in "Recent Reviews of Readers' Films" (Home Movies, Nov. 1947, 736).

The film won third prize in a Metropolitan Motion Picture Club "Novice Contest" in 1946 (Movie Makers, Aug. 1946, 307).

Locations:

• New York City (Filming)

Subjects:

• Ethnology
•      Manners and Customs
• Nature
•      Geography
• Politics
•      War
• North America
•      United States
•           New York (State)

Genre:

• Documentary

Form:

• Short

Tags:

Screenings:

• Screened by the Metropolitan Motion Picture Club in 1945: New York City, N.Y.

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