Film Record: Still Waters

Image from Movie Makers, Dec. 1938, 597.

Date produced: 1938

Filmmaker(s):

Fred C. Ells

Languages:

English

Length:

350 ft

Format:

16mm

Colour:

Kodachrome

Sound Notes:

Silent

Awards/Recognition:

ACL Ten Best 1938 - Honorable Mention General Class
American Cinematographer Amateur Movie Makers Contest, 1938 - Honorable Mention
Tenth Annual Little Movie Party, 1939

Description:

"Working still in the same lyric mood which inspired In The Beginning and Consider The Lilies (place winners of earlier years), Fred C. Ells has turned this year to the Twenty Third Psalm for the theme of Still Waters. In it, to use his own words, he has tried "to bring to mind some of the beauties of the natural world, and to make the spectator conscious in some small way of the mysterious, wonderfully planned creation in which we live. The picture is pure lyric from start to finish, with no more continuity than a love song." Mr. Ells has, on occasion, been thrillingly successful in fulfilling this high charge, bringing to the screen some of the most stirring beauty it would seem possible to recreate. The cumulative effect of the relatively short study, however, is weakened by imperfect technique in the preparation of the Biblical title wordings." Movie Makers, Dec. 1938, 620.

Resources:

The film was available in the ACL's Club Film Library.

Subjects:

• Ethnology
•      Manners and Customs
• Nature
• Religion
•      Bible

Genre:

• Adaptation

Form:

• Short

Screenings:

• Screened at the Tenth Annual Little Movie Party, 1939: Barbizon-Plaza Theatre, New York, NY
• Screened by the Hartford Cinema Club in 1939: Hartford, CT
• Screened by the Indianapolis Amateur Movie Club in 1939: Indianapolis, IN
• Screened by the St. Paul Amateur Movie Makers Club in 1939: St. Paul, MN
• Screened by the New York 8mm. Motion Picture Club in 1939: New York City, N.Y.
• Screened by the Staten Island Cinema Club in 1939: Staten Island, N.Y.
• Screened by the Metropolitan Motion Picture Club in 1939: New York City, N.Y.
• Screened by the Wenatchee Cine Club in 1940: Wenatchee, WA

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