"Paul Thompson's Behind the Bale would be an amazing performance for a large studio, equipped with many facilities and numerous staff members, and this is true by reason of the exceedingly careful collaboration between the film editor and the comment writer. For a small producer of industrial pictures, Behind the Bale is a triumph in the technique of post recording, as well as a beautifully made picture that would stand on its own feet without narration and with relatively few titles. A Northwest brewer wishes to make it clear that the quality of hops has much to do with the quality of beer. Therefore, Mr. Thompson shows us the Yakima (Wash.) Valley briefly and then gets down to the special crop which the film pictures. We follow hops through planting, growing, picking and baling, in a Kodachromatic exposition that has rare beauty, and we end with four men enjoying the beer of Mr. Thompson's client. In the entire course of this fine piece of cinematography, there is a wizardry of cutting the film to fit the narration — and the reverse — that produces exposition timed with scene in a fashion that would do credit to the best industrial filmers anywhere." Movie Makers, Dec. 1941, 564.
A film documenting the work of deep-sea fishermen aboard steam trawler "Trier".
"Documentary on smoke pollution and the effects it has on people's health." (EAFA Database)
"Shows the salmon spawning cycle, methods of commercial purse-seine and gillnet fishing, and processing of the catch at the cannery; includes footage of an "Iron Chink" salmon butchering machine. Filmed at unspecified locations on the BC coast." (BC Archives)
Additional credit: "Produced by the British Columbia Provincial Fisheries Dept."
"The construction of the POM (Pride of Montreal) Bakery in Montreal. Some commercial harvesting footage with baking at POM." (LAC description)
"2 part edited travelogue film beginning in Ontario and working west to British Columbia, documenting the resources, landscape and recreation of Canada. Includes a large amount of natural scenery, but also diverse events such as fishing, a rodeo and water sports. Also gives a look into factories and resorts." Chicago Film Archives
"documentario industriale"/industrial documentary
"documentario a fantasia"/avant-garde documentary
"Carbone, realizzato da Galeazzo Biadene con la collaborazione tecnica di Dino Jarach. E' un documentario industriale di una grande fabbrica di « Coke ». In questo film il regista si propone, a prescindere dallo spirito del contenuto necessariamente documentario, di mettere in atto problemi formali di stilistica cinematografica, frutto di esperienze teoriche, secondo i valori del cinema ortodosso. II film rivela tuttavia in qualche punto degli errori di ritmo, convulso e poco persuasivo. Il montaggio ha, nella colata del carbone, la parte più conveniente. Ottima la scelta del materiale plastico e il taglio delle inquadrature a cui si aggiunge una fotografia altrettanto felice. Il film è tutto a inquadrature fisse."
—Il ventuno 29 (Review of the G.U.F. of Venice), June 1935, p. 16
"Carbon (Carbone), made by Galeazzo Biadene with the technical collaboration of Dino Jarach. This is an industrial documentary about a large Coke factory. In this film, the director proposes, regardless of the spirit of the necessarily documentary content, to implement formal problems of film stylistics, the result of theoretical experience, according to the values of orthodox cinema. The film reveals, however, in some points some errors of rhythm, convulsive and not very persuasive. The editing plays its most suitable part in the sequence of the casting of the coal. The choice of plastic material is excellent, as is the size of the shots, to which is added an equally successful photography. The film is made up entirely of fixed shots."
—Il ventuno 29 (Review of the G.U.F. of Venice), June 1935, p. 16
“Zonguldak Çatalağzı isimli kömür çıkarma kuyusunu 26 eylül 1969 yılında su basmış. Bu kuyu o dönem en fazla kömür üretimi gerçekleştirilen kuyu imiş. TKİ bir proje kapsamında suyu boşaltmış [...].” Sinematek.tv: http://sinematek.tv/catalagzi-kuyusu-1975/ (20 November 2019).
“The coal mine in Zonguldak, named Çatalağzı, was overflowed on September 26, 1969. The coal mine was the most productive one in the country at the time. Turkey's Directorate General of Coal Enterprises (the abbreviation “TKİ” stands for the Directorate) designed a project to put the water out [...].” Sinematek.tv: http://sinematek.tv/catalagzi-kuyusu-1975/ (20 November 2019).
"Harley H. Bixler, a technician, has been inspired with the might of America, and he has interpreted it according to his lights. In Cavalcade of America, taking our entire country as his canvas, he has painted in, with striking chromatic images, the physical and industrial high lights of our heritage. Here are the sinews of strength, awaiting only the activating force of human endeavor to turn them to the path of power. Here are the mills and the mines, the oil and the electricity, the farms and the factories without equal in our modern world. Mr. Bixler interprets his fine pictorial document with a narrative that is usually vivid but sometimes matter of fact and accompanies the whole with recorded music. Cavalcade of America is a striking study of a tremendous subject." Movie Makers, Dec. 1940, 602.
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