Still image from Vacation Highlights in Home Movies, Jan. 1951, 24.
English
600 ft
16mm
Kodachrome
Magnetic
Sound accompaniment on magnetic wire
"'Vacation Highlights,' as the title implies, is a record of a vacation trip, but instead of the usual array of catch-as-can shots which make up so many vacation record films, Terry Manos has given this excellently photographed narrative substance by employing inserts of a letter to his wife and daughter, describing his trip, and a number of tie-in shots of the two to knit the whole into a pleasant continuity. The picture is remarkable, not so much from its narrative standpoint as for its consistency in exposure. There is not a measurable difference in exposure in any scene throughout the picture. The picture depicts the start of the trip by automobile, which takes the travelers across the U.S. border into Canada and thence through the province of Quebec. On the return trip they visit such interesting sights as a wood pulp mill and the famed Ausabel Chasm, in upper New York. The camera treatment of the pulpwood sequence and of the Chasm scenes definitely mark this filmer as a photographer of promise. Manos used a 16mm. Bolex camera and Kodachrome daylight type film." American Cinematographer, Apr. 1950, 134.
The film won top award in the fourth annual Mineola County Fair amateur film contest in 1948 (Movie Makers, Nov. 1948, 449). It also won third award in a Metropolitan Motion Picture Club film contest in 1950 (Movie Makers, Jan. 1951, 28).
The film was "Movie of the Month" in Home Movies for January of 1951. The film receives a feature with a write-up and still images in Home Movies (Jan. 1951, 24).
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Amateur Cinema