Film Record: Heavens Declare the Glory of God, The

Still from The Heavens Declare the Glory of God in Movie Makers, Dec. 1944, 477.

Date produced: 1944

Filmmaker(s):

S. G. Lutz

Languages:

English

Length:

200 ft

Format:

8mm

Colour:

Kodachrome

Sound Notes:

Silent

Awards/Recognition:

ACL Ten Best 1944 - Honorable Mention General Class

Description:

"With the use of a time lapse device, S. G. Lutz has made, in The Heavens Declare the Glory of God, a highly competent record of clouds in motion. Although the subject, treated in a different manner, might easily become too static actually to constitute a true movie. Mr. Lutz has achieved a sure continuity and a sense of artistry that is unusual. In many instances, the film presents sequences of such an unusual kind as to be highly exciting and almost awe inspiring. Speeding the motion of the clouds creates, from the commonplace, a sense of eeriness and weird beauty. In many of the storm sequences, the motion is so greatly dramatized as to impart a nearly terrifying sense of impending disaster." Movie Makers, Dec. 1944, 496.

Resources:

Discussed by Lutz in "A Time Lapse Device for Filming Clouds" (Movie Makers, Aug. 1945, 296-297, 307-308). The article shows various photographs and diagrams of the device Lutz used to make this film.

Subjects:

• Arts
•      Motion pictures
•           Time lapse cinematography
• Nature

Genre:

• Nature

Form:

• Short

Screenings:

• Screened by the Washington 8mm. Movie Club in 1945: Washington, D.C.
• Screened by the Washington Society of Cinematographers in 1945: Takoma Park, D.C.
• Screened by the New York City 8mm. Motion Picture Club in 1945: New York City, N.Y.
• Screened by the Brooklyn Amateur Cine Club in 1945: Brooklyn, N.Y.

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