Image from Movie Makers, Dec. 1938, 597.
English
400 ft
8mm
Kodachrome
Silent
"New England Holiday is the kind of travel film any movie maker should be proud to produce. Replete with human interest and a warm feeling of good fun, this two reel record is distinguished by a wealth of splendid compositions and natural camera treatment. Albert F. Watts has lavished on such typically New England subjects as Gloucester harbor, the fishing fleet or a clam bake the sensitive feeling of an artist for line and mass and the alert understanding of cinematics of a genuine movie maker. Smoothly integrated sequences have been edited with unerring suavity and liveliness, comprising a whole which is both vital and lovely to look at. The production is fundamentally weakened only by a selection of title wordings considerably less spirited and effective than the films which they accompany." Movie Makers, Dec. 1938, 620.
Discussed by Watts in "New England Holiday" (Movie Makers, Oct. 1939, 504, 521-523).
Discussed in "Closeups" (Movie Makers, April 1938, 164).
The film was a "high ranking entry" in an Eastern seaboard interclub movie contest sponsored by the Metropolitan Motion Picture Club in 1938 (Movie Makers, April 1938, 181).
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