Still of Lady on June Street from Movie Makers, Dec. 1939, 606.
English
100 ft
8mm
Kodachrome
Silent
"Within the brief confines of Lady on June Street, Leo Caloia presents a satisfying example of the personality film worked out in story form. Faced with the common problem of family filming, he has resolved the riddle with imagination, humor and marked cinematic ability. The "lady" in question is pictured as a lazy, luxury loving wife, spiritually eager to be the best of helpmates, but physically enslaved to satins and sweetmeats. Dozing, as she regards with languorous ambition an advertisement for homemade shortcake, she dreams vividly of a sweet but unaccustomed success with pot and pan. Crash! In her dream, the lady slips, and her magnificent shortcake slithers across the kitchen linoleum. Bump! In reality, she has rolled sleepily from her couch, to awake with a thud on the living room floor. The film fades swiftly as she hurries the tops off canned beans and sauerkraut." Movie Makers, Dec. 1939, 632.
Caloia discusses the origin of the film's narrative and its production in "She Baked a Cake" (Movie Makers, June 1940, 278, 290).
The film was a prize winner in a Los Angeles 8mm. Club members' film contest in 1939 (American Cinematographer, Jan. 1940, 34).
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Amateur Cinema