Film Record: Ten Pretty Girls

Still from Ten Pretty Girls, in Movie Makers, Dec. 1943, 544.

Date produced: 1942

Filmmaker(s):

Anchor O. Jensen

Languages:

English

Length:

400 ft

Format:

8mm

Colour:

Kodachrome

Sound Notes:

Silent

Awards/Recognition:

ACL Ten Best 1943 - General Class

Description:

"Novel continuity, beautiful cinematography and a nosegay of feminine charms are the distinctive features of Ten Pretty Girls, produced by Anchor O. Jensen. This expert little drama, made on 8mm Kodachrome, is an excellent example of quality workmanship in that width. The opening scene shows a young man contemplating his address book. He folds a large piece of paper and cuts from it a string of ten dolls, which become the symbols of as many lovely young women. As each doll is torn from the group, a new sequence featuring one of the girls is introduced. A different flower, corsage or bouquet figures in the action as each of the girls is shown in some individual and flattering setting. At the conclusion, the young man has made his choice; he spurns the blondes and brunettes for the favors of a titian beauty." Movie Makers, Dec. 1943, 474.

Resources:

Discussed by Jensen in "He Filmed Ten Girls" (Movie Makers, March 1944, 95-96, 112).

Locations:

• Seattle, Washington (Filming)

Subjects:

• Ethnology
•      Manners and Customs
•           Dating (Social customs)

Genre:

• Romance

Form:

• Short

Screenings:

• Screened by the Long Beach Cinema Club in 1941: Long Beach, CA
• Screened by the Wenatchee Cine Club in 1942: Wenatchee, WA
• Screened by the Washington 8mm. Movie Club in 1942 and 1945: Washington, D.C.
• Screened by the Hartford Cinema Club in 1944: Hartford, CT
• Screened by the New York 8mm. Motion Picture Club in 1944: New York City, N.Y.
• Screened by the Brooklyn Amateur Cine Club in 1944: Brooklyn, N.Y.
• Screened by the Los Angeles 8mm. Club in 1944: Los Angeles, CA
• Screened by the Amateur Movie Society of Milwaukee in 1945: Milwaukee, WI
• Screened by the Westwood Movie Club in 1946: San Francisco, CA

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