Film Record: Ossining in Wartime

Still from Ossining in Wartime in Movie Makers, Oct. 1945, 392.

Identifier:

• 76704258 (Source: Library of Congress)

Date produced: 1945

Filmmaker(s):

Robert F. Gowen

Languages:

English

Duration:

00:54:00

Length:

1300 ft

Format:

16mm

Colour:

Kodachrome

Sound Notes:

Silent

Sound:

With music on disc.

Awards/Recognition:

ACL Ten Best 1945 - Honorable Mention General Class

Description:

"Ossining in Wartime is a sincere cinematic record of civilian war activities which every community in the land would be pleased and proud to have. It was not an easy production to complete. Conceived only in the later years of our war effort, the majority of the picture's sequences had to be especially recreated for the ubiquitous camera of its producer, Robert F. Gowen. Newspaper headlines, posters, placards and an occasional subtitle maintain the film's episodic continuity from the earliest efforts of airplane spotters and air wardens to the final joyous ceremonies marking victory over Germany and Japan." Movie Makers, Dec. 1945, 496.

Resources:

A print of this film is held by the Library of Congress.

Discussed in "Practical Films" (Movie Makers, Oct. 1945, 392).

Locations:

• Ossining, New York (Filming)

Subjects:

• Nature
•      Geography
• Politics
•      War
• North America
•      United States
•           New York (State)

Genre:

• Documentary

Form:

• Feature

Tags:

Repository:

Library of Congress

Screenings:

• Premiered at the Ossining community high school in 1945: Ossining, N.Y.

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