"Joyce Allingham, amateur filmmaker and sister of noted English crime writer Margery Allingham, shot these films at an annual cricket match and luncheon hosted by Margery and her husband Philip Youngman Carter at their home in Tolleshunt D'Arcy, Essex. Said to be one of the highlights of life in the village, Joyce captures these annual 'cricket parties' beginning in 1937 and running until 1950, with a necessary break during World War II. The 1937 match was played against a team from the north Essex village of Chappel, whilst Joyce captures the luncheon in the following year, after which the players gather together for a group photograph and the winners urn is carefully carried off. Returning after the war for the 1948 match, Joyce shows preparations for the big day, followed by the 'feast', a photograph and the match itself. In the evening, guests celebrate inside D'Arcy house, where Margery herself acts as barmaid. Joyce also captures highlights from the 1949 and 1950 meetings, the latter featuring shots of Margery preparing lunch" (EAFA Database).
"È la storia di una giovane donna di strada, Lilly. Uno scrittore Stefano Berg, attratto dal suo fascino, una sera la conduce a casa sua e se la tiene con se. In Lilly egli trova gli elementi del personaggio di un suo nuovo romanzo “Resurrectio”. L’opera è iniziata, il giovane scrittore ha già creato nella sua fantasia la trasformazione del personaggio. Nella realtà, però, anche Lilly va trasformandosi; ella già sente di non essere la donna di un tempo: sente d’amare Stefano Berg, che preso intensamente dell’ardore del suo romanzo non si avvede di tale trasformazione e l’abbandona. La giovane donna ritorna quella che era. Un attimo di sgomento ed ecco il suicidio. Il romanzo intanto è già ultimato: la storia della vita di Lilly già passa per le mani di tuti segnando il successo per Stefano Berg."
"It is the story of a young streetwalker, Lilly. A writer Stefano Berg, attracted by her charm, takes her to his home one evening and keeps her with him. In Lilly, he finds the elements of the character for his new novel of his, ""Resurrectio."" The work has begun, the young writer has already fantasized the character’s transformation. In reality, however, Lilly will transform herself; she already feels that she is not the woman she once was: she feels that she loves Stephen Berg, who, intensely caught up in the passion of his novel, does not notice this transformation and abandons her. The young woman returns to what she was. A moment of dismay and suddenly the suicide. In the meantime, the novel is already finished: the story of Lilly's life is already in everyone's hands, marking a success for Stefano Berg."
—Notizario delle sezioni cinematografiche dei gruppi universitari fascisti a cura del ministero della cultura popolare, September 1938 p. 9-10
"doc. a fantasia"/avant-garde documentary
"In the land of the Gaspe Peninsula the people live by the sea, fishing for cod, cleaning and preparing these for market; sheep, wool, spinning, cloth weaving; and wood carvings. The wood carving center of Canada has many excellent carvings; works of art, creations of all sizes. A bird sanctuary three miles from the peninsula is a breeding ground for gannets. An unusual but happy visit with people and their daily affairs" PSA Journal, Nov. 1960, 41.
"Carl Weagant's sea epic, The Cruise Of The Carlsark, 3000 ft., 16mm., is a complete film record of the voyage of the ketch, Carlsark, across the Atlantic. Three Cornell men began the adventurous trip at Ithaca, N. Y., sailing through the Erie Canal system into the St. Lawrence and thence out into the Atlantic. Crossing the ocean in the little yawl, they cruised through the Mediterranean and returned home, stopping at the Canaries. The film record of the trip, made by Mr. Weagant, who was skipper as well as cameraman, is almost as important an advent in the annals of amateur movie making as the trip itself is in yachting circles. Excellent in exposure throughout, the picture contains few of the errors that would have been excusable. The continuity follows the chart of the voyage but the reels of sea scenes in the midst of the film can be considered as a separate subject. These scenes, telling the every day life aboard the ketch and the exciting incidents on the trip, are as interesting and as well photographed as any amateur made sea pictures that have come to the attention of League headquarters." Movie Makers, Dec. 1930, 759.
Total Pages: 299
Amateur Cinema