Arthur and Lillie
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| Original title | Arthur and Lillie |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1975 |
| length | 29 minutes |
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| Director | Jon Else |
| script | David Peoples |
| production | Jon Else, Steven Kovacs , Kristine Samuelson |
| music | Martin Bresnick |
| camera | Bill Zarchy |
| occupation | |
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Arthur and Lillie is an American documentary - short film by Jon Else from 1975. Else, Steven Kovacs and Kristine Samuelson had with the film for an Oscar nomination.
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Hollywood veteran Arthur Mayer (1886–1981) and his wife Lillie (1889–1980) look back on their experiences in the “golden age of the film industry” in this portrait. When Mayer was born in Demopolis , Alabama in 1886 , there were no films and of course no cinema. When he was ten years old, his grandfather took him to a public event that saw a film for the first time in the United States, even though only shadows could be seen on the screen at the time. Even so, the imaginations of millions of people, including that of young Arthur, were caught.
Mayer grew up with names such as Rudolph Valentino , Charlie Chaplin , Douglas Fairbanks senior and Douglas Fairbanks junior as well as action films about Bronco Billy (1907-1916) and suddenly there were huge screens showing films in lavishly furnished picture palaces. A fad had grown into a huge industry dominated by men of various backgrounds who had quit their industries in search of money making and entered the film industry. Adolph Zukor , David O. Selznick , Jack L. and Harry Warner , Jesse L. Lasky , Carl Laemmle and other names gained in importance. Mayer was also determined to immerse himself in this industry, although Harvard training was more of a hindrance than a useful one in this profession. His first job was the former glove maker Samuel Goldwyn , who had now built a theater chain. At the time it didn't take much to get people excited about film, they loved the new medium and flocked to the cinema.
Mayer himself was film producer and the distributor, which met with Joseph Burstyn and with such famous people like Roberto Rossellini worked and other known film directors, some of the films under the name Burstyn-Mayer Inc. have been distributed. Together with Edward Kingsley, he also began in 1949 to distribute French films in the United States.
In old age, the couple spent much of their time attending lectures and covering the big days of Hollywood film. Lillie Mayer said that she and especially her husband had touched a lot of people and that it was a pleasure and a privilege.
Production notes
The film was produced for and with the help of Stanford University .
Award
- Nomination for Jon Else, Steven Kovacs and Kristine Samuelson in the category “Best Documentary Short Film” . However, the Oscar went to Robin Lehman and Claire Wilbur and the film The End of the Game , which takes a look at African wildlife.
Web links
- Arthur and Lillie in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Arthur and Lillie see page letterboxd.com (English)
- Arthur and Lillie (motion picture) see page trove.nla.gov.au (English)
- Arthur & Lillie see page Pyramid Media (including original film excerpt)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Arthur and Lillie In: The New York Times (English). Retrieved January 19, 2020.
- ↑ The 48th Academy Awards | 1976 see page oscars.org (English).