"Amateur filmmaker, cinema historian and railway engineer H.A.V. Bulleid presents this comedy of two bumbling sleuths bickering their way through an investigation. When the venerable, one-armed Dr Claudius Bombarnoc drops an important document, it is seized upon by the villainous Michel Despard. Giving chase, the doctor literally trips over the hapless duo from the Messrs Make and Break Detective Agency. Employed by the doctor, they trace the villain to the local hospital where they finally have him cornered. But can they work together long enough to capture him, or will their constant bickering hinder the investigation?" (EAFA Database).
"George A. Valentine long has been one of the nation's leading 8mm movie makers, because of his knack for consistently turning out capsule movies with a punch, which have won numerous awards. In 'Make Mine Magic' Valentine has scored again with an appealing story of a lad who comes into possession of a magic wand, and thereafter brings to reality numerous wishes of his and those of his brother and sister. Valentine has a slick way of injecting humor and also a surprise last-minute gag into his movies. His 8mm color photography is consistently good and his editing and titling, as always, is skillfully done." American Cinematographer, May 1952, 222
"School children are shown how to make two kinds of simple masks using paper and paste" (Catalog of Copyright Entries, 113).
"The Making of Canadian Homespun, by Duncan Mac D. Little, ACL, is a distinctly novel cinematographic achievement because it is an al fresco industrial film depicting a process of manufacture that normally is largely performed indoors. In addition, it is a uniquely valuable contribution to folk way records, listing, as it does, in a lovingly made film inventory, the steps involved in the production of homespun cloth by a geographically sequestered population which maintains one of the last stands of homely folk craft on the North American continent. Mr. Little's picture was made in summer in a region lacking facilities for indoor lighting. It compresses seasonal activities into the space of a few days, showing sheep shearing, preparation of the wool and its spinning and weaving. For this purpose, a spinning wheel and loom were set up in the open by the country people of the locality, who cooperated happily with Mr. Little. Not only is this ancient process preserved in an exceptional film record but, at the same time, there are offered many character studies of exceedingly individual French Canadians." Movie Makers, Dec. 1935, 551, 553.
Documentary film chronicling the background and production of Dinosaur Dream (1995), which Sid Laverents made in his late-80s with assistance from his wife, Charlotte.
"Film's plot centers around the San Diego Moviemakers club and opens with a scene of the club watching a film program; A mysterious Man in Black disrupts things." UCLA Film & Television Archive.
A short film dealing with the subject of class inequality in England.
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Amateur Cinema