Film Record: Ski Legs

Still from Ski Legs from Movie Makers, Dec. 1939, 608.

Date produced: 1939

Filmmaker(s):

Robert M. Coles

Charles Coles

Languages:

English

Length:

700 ft

Format:

16mm

Colour:

B&W

Sound Notes:

Silent

Awards/Recognition:

ACL Ten Best 1939 - Honorable Mention General Class
Tenth Annual Little Movie Party, 1939

Description:

"In Ski Legs, the family filming team of Cinecoles has produced an able and amusing farce comedy on the perils of skiing for the novice. Spurred on by the waning love of his onetime sweetheart — newly devoted to the current ski champion — the hero risks life and limb on the snowy trails, to win out in the end through a series of adroitly conceived mishaps. The film is a pat illustration of the oft spoken truism that the best humor for amateur films is the humor of situation, not the "funny" acting of the actors. To Charles Coles goes the credit for crisp and competent photography, with Robert Coles responsible for the direction of a well developed plot and its genuinely amusing "gags." " Movie Makers, Dec. 1939, 635.

Subjects:

• Art and Recreation
• Recreation
•      Sports
•           Skiing

Genre:

• Comedy

Form:

• Short

Screenings:

• Screened at the Tenth Annual Little Movie Party, 1939: Barbizon-Plaza Theatre, New York, N.Y.
• Screened by the Brooklyn Amateur Cine Club in 1940: Brooklyn, N.Y.
• Screened by the Movie Group of the Schenectady Photographic Society in 1940 and 1952: Schenectady, N.Y.

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