Dyer, Frederick Simpson: Cinema and its Workings: Home Movie (1941)
Length: 15 minutes 4 seconds
Synopsis
An outing to the Saturday matinee screening of Pack Up Your Troubles (1940) at a local cinema is captured in black-and-white and colour by amateur movie maker Frederick Simpson Dyer.
Curator’s notes
Amateur movie maker Frederick Simpson Dyer made a number of 16 mm film home movies covering the years 1936–1943 and recorded family events such as holidays, birthdays, and family outings. This self-contained sequence is one of the highlights of his footage. Edited together chronologically, and at times incredibly comic, it reveals the excitement of going to the cinema at a time when the moving image was not all pervasive, as it is today.
Original aspect ratio: 1.33:1 (Academy full frame)
Original censorship rating: not rated
