Post by kijii on Apr 14, 2018 1:55:10 GMT
...but today I watched a short made for Australia's National Film Board, a 10-minute documentary, about the introduction of electricity into a small rural town. Switch On Bigga (1953) is something I watched last year, and I decided to re-watch it. It was almost a lost film until a copy with washed-out, faded colour turned up. Although very few feature films were made in 1950s Australia, many documentary shorts were made and I enjoy watching them (I've seen many of them). The copyright holder has uploaded this particular short to YouTube:
I would love to see Fred Zinnemann's shorts--That seemed to be his starting point to bigger things:
1942 The Lady or the Tiger? (Short)
1942 The Greenie (Short)
1941 Your Last Act (Short)
1941 Forbidden Passage (Short)
1940 The Great Meddler (Short)
1940 A Way in the Wilderness (Short)
1940 Stuffie (Short)
1940 The Old South (Documentary short)
1939 Forgotten Victory (Short)
1939 The Ash Can Fleet (Short)
1939 One Against the World (Short)
1939 Help Wanted (Short)
1939 While America Sleeps (Short)
1939 Weather Wizards (Short)
1938 They Live Again (Documentary short)
1938 Tracking the Sleeping Death (Short)
1938 The Story of Doctor Carver (Short)
1938 That Mothers Might Live (Short)
1937 Friend Indeed (Short)
He even won an Oscar for a Short in 1951 - Benjy (Short)