Film Record: Sunstruck

Still from Sunstruck in Movie Makers, Dec. 1944, 477.

Date produced: 1944

Filmmaker(s):

George Mesaros

Languages:

English

Length:

400 ft

Format:

16mm

Colour:

Kodachrome

Sound Notes:

Silent

Sound:

With music on disc.

Awards/Recognition:

ACL Ten Best 1944 - Honorable Mention General Class

Description:

"Sunstruck, by George Mesaros, is a bright genre study of the American beach scene at its colorful, everyday best. There are the sun bathers and the sand babies, the athletes and the antics, and, above all else, the incomparably lithesome and lovely American girl. Mr. Mesaros has caught them all. in sparkling cinematography and with a pleasing selection of camera viewpoints. He has added to these a brace of brief and farcical skits which are well played and well directed. Sprightly music, shrewdly keyed to the varied sequences, rounds out the film's effect. Sunstruck, as suggested in its own foreword, is "gay, glamorous and often goofy."" Movie Makers, Dec. 1944, 496.

Subjects:

• Nature
•      Geography
•           Beaches
• North America
•      United States

Genre:

• Documentary

Form:

• Short

Screenings:

• Screened by the Bell Laboratories Motion Picture Club in 1945: New York City, N.Y.
• Screened for 400 members of the Boy Scouts of America in 1945: Flushing, N.Y.
• Screened by the Metropolitan Motion Picture Club in 1945: New York City, N.Y.
• Screened by the New York 8mm. Motion Picture Club in 1945: New York City, N.Y.

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