Film Record: Make Mine Magic

Still image from Make Mine Magic in Home Movies, March 1951, 85.

Date produced: 1951

Filmmaker(s):

George A. Valentine

Languages:

English

Length:

150 ft

Format:

8mm

Colour:

Kodachrome

Sound Notes:

Silent

Awards/Recognition:

Home Movies 1951 Annual Amateur Contest - Grand Prize Winner
American Cinematographer Amateur Movie Makers Contest, 1952 - Top Ten Award Winner

Description:

"George A. Valentine long has been one of the nation's leading 8mm movie makers, because of his knack for consistently turning out capsule movies with a punch, which have won numerous awards. In 'Make Mine Magic' Valentine has scored again with an appealing story of a lad who comes into possession of a magic wand, and thereafter brings to reality numerous wishes of his and those of his brother and sister. Valentine has a slick way of injecting humor and also a surprise last-minute gag into his movies. His 8mm color photography is consistently good and his editing and titling, as always, is skillfully done." American Cinematographer, May 1952, 222

Resources:

Discussed in "The Prize Winning Film" (Home Movies, March 1951, 85, 100-101). The article describes the film's plot and its use of stop motion animation. Still images are shown.

Subjects:

•           Family life
•      Children

Genre:

• Comedy
• Family

Form:

• Animation
• Short

Tags:

Screenings:

• Screened by the Brooklyn Amateur Cine Club in 1951: Brooklyn, N.Y.
• Screened by the Long Beach Cinema Club in 1951: Long Beach, CA
• Screened by the Vailsburg Cine Club in 1952: Newark, N.J.
• Screened by the Amateur Motion Picture Society of Denver in 1952: Denver, CO

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