Still from Turf Tales in Movie Makers, Dec. 1944, 477.
English
150 ft
8mm
Kodachrome
Silent
With music and narrative on disc (sixteen inches).
"In Turf Tales, Leonard Bauer, jr., has tackled an acceptedly difficult subject for the personal movie maker — and has done well by it. The subject, as might be guessed, is professional horse racing. The setting of Mr. Bauer's study is the relatively ancient track of Pimlico, outside Baltimore, with the climax of the picture provided by a record of its traditional classic, the Preakness. But the strength of Turf Tales derives more from its highly competent sequences of human interest behind the scenes — the early morning time trials, the stable boys and their chores, the track farrier as he shapes the delicate racing shoes and the strange, unexplained mascots of the high strung thoroughbreds. A commendably restrained narrative, set against a musical background, accompanies the film on a sixteen inch disc recorded by Mr. Bauer." Movie Makers, Dec. 1944, 496-497.
The film was the winner of the Gold Cup Contest held by the 8-16 Movie Club of Philadelphia in 1943 (Movie Makers, Feb. 1944, 82). The film also finished in third place in an interclub contest held between the 8-16 Movie Club and the Philadelphia Cinema Club in 1944 (Movie Makers, Aug. 1944, 311).
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