Film Record: Symphony of the Village

Date produced: 1950

Filmmaker(s):

Bert Seckendorf

Languages:

English

Length:

700 ft

Format:

16mm

Colour:

Kodachrome

Sound:

Music score on records

Awards/Recognition:

American Cinematographer Amateur Movie Makers Contest, 1951 - Top Ten Award Winner

Description:

"Symphony Of The Village: Bert Seckendorf and his Cine Special camera have caught the colorful activities of Greenwich Village in one of the best color documentaries on this subject made to date. This famed New York spot, with its renowned artists, artisans and craftsmen, is revealed in all its gay, Bohemian color as the camera chronicles the activities of sidewalk artists, potters, ceramists, wood carvers and makers of novelty jewelry. The excellent titling knits together all the scenes and sequences into another top-notch picture for which this filmer has become famous in amateur circles." American Cinematographer, May. 1951, 190-2.

Resources:

Discussed in "What Others are Shooting" (Home Movies, Dec. 1950, 502, 520).

The film won the grand prize of $25 and a trophy in the Mineola State Fair amateur film contest of 1950 (The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Sept. 21, 1950, 13).

Locations:

• Greenwich Village, New York, New York (Filming)

Subjects:

• Artisans
• Artists
•      Geography
•               New York (N.Y.)
•      United States
•      Art

Genre:

• Documentary

Form:

• Short

Tags:

Screenings:

• Screened by the Long Island Cine Club in 1951: Long Island, N.Y.
• Screened by the Metropolitan Motion Picture Club in 1951: New York City, N.Y.
• Screened by the Amateur Motion Picture Society of Albany in 1952: Albany, N.Y.
• Screened by the Seattle Amateur Movie Club in 1952: Seattle, WA
• Screened by the Brooklyn Amateur Cine Club in 1953: Brooklyn, N.Y.
• Screened by the Amateur Movie Society of Bergen County in 1953: Bergen County, N.J.

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