Still image from Sweeter By The Dozen in Movie Makers, Dec. 1951, 393.
English
450 ft
16mm
Kodachrome
Silent
With sound on disc.
"Take a dozen or more normally exuberant youngsters in the second grade of school, mix them amid a day-long session of changing classes, and flavor with the excitement of making a movie — this was the recipe which Herbert F. Sturdy set himself to follow in cooking up Sweeter by the Dozen. He has been remarkably and quite charmingly successful. That the school was West Lake, in the svelte suburbs of Hollywood, and that the pupils were the progeny of "name" figures in the film colony, may have had, perhaps, something to do with it. But kids will be kids — whether in Glendale or Grand Rapids. By some alchemy of the camera, Mr. Sturdy has indeed made them sweeter by the dozen." Movie Makers, Dec. 1951, 412.
The film won first prize in the "silent division" of a Los Angeles Cinema Club film contest in 1951 (Movie Makers, Feb. 1951, 64).
This film is a part of the Herbert F. Sturdy Collection held by Northeast Historic Film. It was preserved with funding from the National Film Preservation Foundation.
Herbert F. Sturdy Collection, Northeast Historic Film
Amateur Cinema