Film Record: Tying A Dry Salmon Fly

Date produced: 1930

Filmmaker(s):

Niels-Eske Brock

Languages:

English

Length:

300 ft

Format:

16mm

Colour:

B&W

Sound Notes:

Silent

Awards/Recognition:

ACL Ten Best 1931 - Special Mention
Second Annual Little Movie Party, 1930

Description:

"Tying A Dry Salmon Fly, 300 ft., 16mm., was awarded special mention because of its unusual subject matter and because of the uniformly fine technique with which it is portrayed. Mr. Brock, both a fisherman and a firmer, has brought one hobby to the aid of another as he shows, with a straightforward continuity, the nice art of fly tying. Working almost entirely in extreme closeups, he overcame the serious problem of limited depth of focus by a canny concentration of his light sources on the tiny subject. In this manner, he was able so to stop down the lens as to achieve maximum definition and depth of field." Movie Makers, Dec. 1931, 685.

Subjects:

• Recreation
•      Sports
•           Fishing

Genre:

• Documentary

Form:

• Short

Tags:

Screenings:

• Second Annual Little Movie Party, December 1930: New York, NY
• Screened by request at the Third Annual Little Movie Party, January 1932, after its warm reception at the 1930 screening: New York, NY
• Screened by the Brooklyn Motion Picture Club in 1932: Brooklyn, N.Y.

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