Author Archive: Retro

Auditions and screen tests for Gone With The Wind

Impressionistic depiction of Berlin from morning to night.

What starts off as a conventional travelogue turns into a satirical portrait of the town of Nice on the French Cote d’Azur, especially its wealthy inhabitants.

Deep-sea fishing adventure.

Deep-sea fishing adventure.

An explanation for American audiences of what rationing means to ordinary British families.

Grierson set out to make “propaganda,” and this film–with it’s voice-over proclaiming the great value of the British industrial worker, without a hint of ambiguity or doubt–fits that category well. The authoritatarian narrator feels out-of-date and unsophisticated, but the footage is well shot and interesting, and the transparency of the propaganda aspect is almost a reflief at a time when so many films have hidden agendas.

The story of the breakup of an 18 year marriage, as seen from the points of view of both the husband and the wife.

Cuban Story: The Truth about Fidel Castro Revolution is a 1959 film documentary narrated by Errol Flynn, and the last known performance work of his career.

It was one of two films Flynn made about the Cuban Revolution during the early period when Castro was publicly denying his communist allegiance, the other being the drama-documentary Cuban Rebel Girls (1959).