Milton Dowe, Just Fences, 1938-1940. From 8mm film, Palermo Historical Society Collection, Northeast Historic Film. Scan by Joe Gardner.
8mm
B&W
Silent
"Another film capturing evanescence and making an explicit point about that intent is the 8mm work by Milton Dowe, Just Fences (1938-1940), a short visual catalog of split-rail and other fence types in the landscape with the on-screen title, 'Soon these will decay and be forgotten.' " (McNamara and Sheldon, Amateur Movie Making, 19).
Discussed by Karan Sheldon in Martha J. McNamara and Karan Sheldon, Amateur Movie Making: Aesthetics of the Everyday in New England Film, 1915-1960, 2017.
Palermo Historical Society Collection, Northeast Historic Film
Amateur Cinema