Reel 54, Archie Stewart Family Home Movies (1936-1939), Reels 54, 66, 73, 74 [4-film compilation].

Format:

Video

Series:

Academic Video Online

UNSEEN CINEMA 6: The Amateur as Auteur: Discoving Paradise in Pictures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

1930s.

Local Subjects:

1930s.

Genre:

Documentary

Physical Description:

1 online resource (34 minutes)

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Filmmakers Showcase, [date of publication note identified]

System Details:

video file

Summary:

AMATEUR AS AUTEUR is part of the film retrospective UNSEEN CINEMA that explores long-forgotten American experimental cinema. Between 1926 and 1985, amateur Archie Stewart shot over seventy thousand feet of film. In 1936, he purchased a sound-on-film 16mm camera and began to make talking pictures. The result is that we can see and hear what Archie experienced at the moment of filming. Stewart primarily focused on his family, watching them grow and mature as the years passed. Here we partake in four years of family activities, trips, and holiday seasons, as well as technical experiments. The record, intimate and endearing, shows people comfortable in front of the ever-present camera and microphone. - BRUCE POSNER Based in Newburgh, New York, Archibald "Archie" Stewart was a car dealer by occupation and an avid home moviemaker throughout most of his adult life. Beginning in 1926, Stewart filmed much of his family and social life, vacations and travels, and annual deer hunting trips to rural Maine. - BRUCE POSNER ARCHIE STEWART FAMILY HOME MOVIES (1936-1939) - 4 FILM COMPLIATION131 00:00 REEL 54 (1936, 14:33 minutes)132 15:11 REEL 66 (1937, 14:04 minutes)135 29:15 REEL 73 (1938, 3:59 minutes)134 33:14 REEL 74 (1939, 19 seconds) Alternate title: "Reels 54, 66, 73, 74". 16mm 1.37:1 black and white and color sound 33:36 minutes. Compiled by Bruce Posner and David Shepard

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed March 22, 2021).