Film Record: Paintings

Still image from Paintings in Movie Makers, Dec. 1952, 324.

Date produced: 1952

Filmmaker(s):

George E. Canning

Production credits:

• John S. Arhorn, Painter (himself)
• Julia Canning, Lady

Languages:

English

Length:

300 ft

Format:

16mm

Colour:

Kodachrome

Sound Notes:

Silent

Awards/Recognition:

ACL Ten Best 1952 - Honorable Mention

Description:

"In Paintings, George E. Canning has hung his story on a simple plot that serves to display an artist's works. A lady makes an appointment with the artist with the intent of making a purchase. The artist, beset by a pile of bills, wonders what he should charge or hope to get; and here figures expressing his thoughts are cleverly superimposed on the scenes of action. The paintings are interesting in themselves for their variety of subject matter and style (this fact rather belies the artist's penury), and the interior lighting throughout the film is excellent. The artist (John S. Arhorn) is well played by himself, the lady by Julia Canning. One could wish that the plot's denouement is not so readily anticipated." Movie Makers, Dec. 1952, 340.

Resources:

The film was added to the ACL's Club Film Library in 1953 (Movie Makers, Oct. 1953, 277).

Subjects:

• Artists
•      Art

Genre:

• Melodrama

Form:

• Short

Screenings:

• Screened by the Toledo Amateur Movie Makers in 1953: Toledo, OH
• Screened by the Metropolitan Motion Picture Club in 1953: New York City, N.Y.

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