Skaterdater
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Skaterdater |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1965 |
| length | 17 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Noel Black |
| script | Noel Black |
| production |
Marshall Backlar , Noel Black |
| music |
Mike Curb , Nick Venet |
| camera | Michael D. Murphy |
| occupation | |
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Skaterdater is an American short film of Noel Black from the year 1965 .
action
A group of boys rides through the city, along streets and sidewalks on their skateboards , jumping over obstacles and curbs and is thus faster than a girl who fails her bike on an obstacle. The noise of the wheels does not meet with approval everywhere. When the group passes a commercial building, the adults are disturbed in their work. A woman trips a skater by throwing grit on the street.
During a break, one of the boys sees a woman watching him. Later he looks at the female figure at a fountain and loses touch with the skater group. He meets the girl again on her bike and spends the afternoon with her. Both ride the carousel and ride the girl's bike together. The other boys disapprove of his behavior and so he leaves the girl the next day to join the skaters. At a fork in the road, the boy's route opposes that of the leader of the skaters. The leader of the skaters challenges him to a skate duel on an extremely sloping road. Both circling each other, descending on their skateboards, until the boy falls. The other skaters leave him lying there and ride on together. The girl who saw everything sits down by his side. Later you can see both of them walking together on the sidewalk when the skaters pass them without looking at him. Two boys in the group, in turn, see two girls walking and look around at them while the rest of the group drives on.
production
Skaterdater was born during the first big skateboard boom in the USA. Noel Black and Marshall Backlar had just finished their studies at the University of California, Los Angeles at the time . The skater group in the film was the Imperials Skateboard Club from Torrance . Among the boys in the film was the future artist Gary Hill , the head of the club. Leading actor Michael Mel is the uncle of professional surfer Peter Mel . The shooting of the film took place in the summer of 1965 in Redondo Beach and in Palos Verdes Estates . You can see the Neptune Fountain on the Malaga Cove Plaza in Palos Verdes Estates.
The film did not have a set script as it did not contain any dialogues. The plot is instead accompanied by surf music by Davie Allan & The Arrows . The soundtrack for the film was released on record in 1966. Skaterdater was first published in 1965 and shown at the Cannes International Film Festival in 1966, among others . In the US cinemas it was shown as a supporting film for James Bond 007 - Fireball .
Awards
The film was nominated for an Oscar in the category Best Short Film in 1966. Skaterdater won the Grand Prix - Best Short Film ( i.e. Golden Palm) and the Prix de la Commission Supérieure Technique in Cannes in 1966 .
literature
- Michael Mel in Skaterdater . In: Ben Marcus: Skateboard: The Good, the Rad, and the Gnarly: An Illustrated History . MVP Books Minneapolis 2011, pp. 96-98.
Web links
- Skaterdater in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael Mel in Skaterdater . In: Ben Marcus: Skateboard: The Good, the Rad, and the Gnarly: An Illustrated History . MVP Books Minneapolis 2011, pp. 96-98.
- ↑ See LP Skaterdater on discogs.com
- ↑ See Skaterdater on festival-cannes.fr