Screen souvenirs
Screen Souvenirs was an American short film series produced by Paramount Publix between 1931 and 1935 .
background
Screen Souvenirs was one of the first film series to market early silent film and newsreel recordings in the sound film age in the form of compilation films . In contrast to other series, Screen Souvenirs concentrated on recordings made before 1914.
The individual episodes of the screen souvenirs were always a reel , around 15 minutes long. As a rule, the individual scenes were commented on or accompanied by a speaker. In contrast to other film series of the same kind such as Goofy Movies , the commentary was not used in a humorous or mocking way or individual scenes were underlaid with sound effects, but the excerpts were presented largely authentically. The aim was to “present the unique qualities of the old films and thus bring the past to life as well as arouse nostalgia for a time and places that have disappeared”. The screen souvenirs were advertised as “a few minutes of authentic entertainment for today's cinema-goers”. The series was produced by the group around Fred Waller , who came to Paramount in 1927 as head of short film production and editor of the US weekly newsreel Paramount News .
The consequences of screen souvenirs are now sought-after collector's items, as they contain, among other things, short excerpts from films that are otherwise considered lost or never published.
Follow (selection)
A total of around 25 episodes appeared in the series, divided into four series.
- Series 1
- No. 1: Copyright August 17, 1931
- No. 2: Copyright September 12, 1931
- No. 4: published November 7, 1931
- No. 5: published December 5, 1931
- No. 10: Copyright April 21, 1932
- No. 11: Copyright 23 May 1932
- No. 12: Copyright June 16, 1932
- Series 2
- No. 1: Copyright August 4, 1932
- No. 4: Copyright October 27, 1932
- No. 5: Copyright November 28, 1932
- No. 8: Copyright February 16, 1933
- Series 3
- No. 10: Copyright May 2, 1934
- Series 4
- No. 4: Copyright April 18, 1935, Dialogues by Milton Jocky , Speaker Leo Donnelly
Award
The first film in the Screen Souvenirs series , which was released in August 1931, was nominated for an Oscar in the category " Best Short Film - Novelty " in 1932 , but could not prevail against Wrestling Swordfish .
Individual evidence
- ^ Leonard Maltin: The great movie shorts . Crown Publishers, New York 1972, p. 16.
- ↑ "… demonstrated the unique qualities of vintage films to provide a living record of the past and evoke nostalgia for a vanished time and place." Cf. William M. Drew: The last silent picture show: silent films on American screens in the 1930s . Scarecrow Press, Plymouth 2010, p. 93.
- ^ "A few minutes of genuine entertainment for the motion picture goer of today" In: Motion picture herald . 112. Quigley Publishers, New York 1933, p. 44.
- ↑ Kalton C. Lahue: Collecting classic films . American Photographic Book Publishing, New York 1970, p. 62.
- ↑ Information taken from the respective Catalog of Copyright Entries .
- ^ The first Hollywood sound shorts, 1926-1931 , p. 253.
- ↑ See fan.tcm.com