Writes Professor Cheryl Clark:
After Poetry Workshop, Danie Grace (Animation ’19) wrote and designed a final book of poems in the Advanced Poetry Workshop I offer. She called her book Bittersweetner and, for her Animation II class, animated one of her poems. Out of play-dough on a 2D plane, she created this stop-motion animation called “A Sorry Sort I Am…”.
And she recites the poem to one and all on the spot!
They introduced this song in the live Broadway production that opened January 9, 1929. When they sang it again in this 1930 Paramount film version, they joined the pioneers of a new genre–the 2-strip Technicolor musical of the 1930s.
One went on to star in a greatest movie of Hollywood’s greatest year, 1939. Who are these performers? What is this movie?
What film is this? The first reader to identify the source film wins a signed and personalized copy of a film history.
This week’s hint: The great Dimitri Tiomkin score makes this film a classic of classics.
We have a winner! The winner identified the film as Red River (1948). Read Roger Ebert’s review of this quintessential western. Stay tuned for next week’s contest…
Writes Professor Dermot Smyth:
Photo: Jordan Deur
In the Female Gaze, students present an original piece of work of their own that in some way relates to the themes and concepts covered during the semester.
What film is this? The first reader to identify the source film wins a signed and personalized copy of a film history.
This week’s hint: Cinephiles often cite this as the finest exemplar of the three-strip Technicolor movie.
Six shots to begin an unmade film…Where does this want to go? Send in your suggestions.
With this clip we inaugurate the Fresh Catnip “Name This Movie Contest.” Every week during the summer of 2017, we’ll post a clip snipped from a renown film. The first reader to identify the source film wins a signed and personalized copy of a film history. Every clip comes with a hint.
This week’s hint: This actress grew up in Medford Hills, Massachusetts.
“We would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with windows open and the stars bright.”
Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
Look. See Zorro.