Home Movies: Paris, Times Square, China, etc. (1932)
1932 · Ephemeral film · 19 min
Synopsis
Begins with fragment of "Ports of the World" by Nomad Pictures. Direction: Sir Oswald Winfield. Photography: Robert Bloch. Continues to amateur footage. France and Paris. "Odeon" cinema marquee showing "Direct Au Coeur," directed by Marcel Pagnol. Many street scenes more in Kodacolor woman reading Life magazine on shipboard RKO Mayfair marquee featuring "The Conquerors" with Richard Dix, Ann Harding et al. (Kodacolor) Sign painted on wall advertising Palace Theater, B'way at 47th St., with Eddie Cantor in "The Kid From Spain" (Kodacolor) Times Square in Kodacolor marquee for Maedchen in Uniform Chinese city and people in Kodacolor
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- Running time
- 19 minutes
- Collection
- Prelinger Archives
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★ · I'll take it with a grain.. · Spuzz · 2014-04-06
Weird quality home movie footage of trips to Paris, New York and China, hard to know when the footage stops of one place, then on to the other. I like though, how the filmmaker was quite interested in signage, especially in New York. Some grand marquees there (headhunters!). Not too sure why though the quality is so bad, sort of grainy but I don't think that's the film's fault. Apparently there's supposed to be color, but none of that was witnessed either.