Children Make Movies (1961)
1961 · Ephemeral film · 9 min · dir. DeeDee Halleck
Synopsis
This is documentation of a workshop held at the Lillian Wald Recreation Rooms and Settlement. It shows two filmmaking projects by youth. This film was shown at a UNESCO conference in 1962 in Oslo, Norway and was commended for being the "most spontaneous" and "drawing the most applause" by Jonas Mekas in a review in the Village Voice.
Synopsis from OMDb
Details
- Director
- DeeDee Halleck
- Released
- 1961-09-01
- Running time
- 9 minutes
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Prelinger Archives
Cast & crew
DeeDee Halleck Director
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★★ · The Second Half is Based on the Film Neighbors · DeeDee Halleck · 2017-02-03
Neighbors is an antiwar film by Norman McLaren which the kids saw and wanted to make their own version. In Neighbors two neighbors fight over a flower that grows on the line between their house. But their fight eventually destroys not only the flower but their homes and themselves. In the children’s film a bunch of kids build a tower, but fight over how it should be build and end up ruining the project and dying themselves as the girls look on.
★★★ · Spoiler alert: The boys all die. · Spuzz · 2016-01-27
Interesting 2 films made by a kid's group. One is a scratch film, and it's pretty typical results for a bunch of kids making a scratch film. But the piano score is quite something. After that is a drama or something about building a brick tower. Not much to this film. Ah kids these days.