Film Record: Director, The

Still image from The Director in Movie Makers, Dec. 1950, 447.

Date produced: 1950

Filmmaker(s):

Cal Duncan

Languages:

English

Length:

625 ft

Format:

16mm

Colour:

Kodachrome

Sound Notes:

Silent

Sound:

With music on disc.

Awards/Recognition:

ACL Ten Best 1950 - Honorable Mention

Description:

"Cal Duncan, the exuberant extrovert of Lee's Summit, Mo., has, in The Director, turned his high talents for low comedy on our own hobby of amateur movies. Both the hobby and the hobbyist's long suffering friends take quite a beating. In the person of Felix Fogbound, a perennial bird-brain in the producer's cinematic studio, Mr. Duncan combines all of the classic amateur idiocies with a flavoring of Hollywood hokum. His lampooning of personal movies is robust, rowdy and for keeps. When Fogbound swoops his camera in a dizzy pan shot, you have really had it. When he attacks editing with a pot of glue and his thumb-and-forefinger splicing technique, every movie maker will wince with horror. The director is a derisive and delightful burlesque, executed with an almost artless technical competence." Movie Makers, Dec. 1950, 468.

Resources:

The film won first award in the 16mm. class of a Kansas City Amateur Movie Makers film contest in 1951 (Movie Makers, March 1951, 98).

Subjects:

•      Motion pictures
•           Moviemaking

Genre:

• Comedy

Form:

• Short

Screenings:

• Screened by the Metropolitan Motion Picture Club in December 1951: New York City, N.Y.
• Screened by the Brooklyn Amateur Cine Club in 1951: Brooklyn, N.Y.
• Screened by the Vailsburg Cine Club in 1952: Newark, N.J.

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