11 FILMS SHOWN

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30682, 23 February 1965, Page 14

11 FILMS SHOWN

Movie Club’s Festival The Christchurch Movie Club’s film festival began last evening with the screening of 11 films with a wide variety of subjects. The festival of three nightly screenings at the Canterbury Museum lecture theatre is the club’s contribution to the Pan Pacific Arts Festival.

In the absence of the Mayor (Mr G. Manning) the festival was officially opened by Cr. H. M. Denton. Most of the films were in colour and this medium was most successful in the travel films such as the Christchurch entry “Over the World to Skye.” and the Dunedin film, “Siam.” “Over the World to Skye,” by Mrs W. S. Mac Gibbon, presented some impressive Scottish scenery, and the lush rice fields and richly-decorated pagodas of Siam were a feature of the Dunedin entry made by Marie and Lindsay McLeod. G. T. Caldwell’s “Gwenneth in Wonderland” took a modern Alice through adventures provided by imaginative puppets, and “Plastiphobia” featured a ball of coloured plasticine which moulded into many forms in a series of amusing incidents. It was made by Fred O’Neill, of Dunedin.

The activities of a large colony of gannets nesting on the reservation at Cape Kidnappers were shown in a Dannevirke entry bv W. T. Knowles. Many of the birds are marked by members of the Wildlife Division and some have been found to migrate as far away as the Indian Ocean.

K. G. McClay’s film, “Hot Water,” detailed a man’s attempt to have a bath in peace, and a housewife’s progress at a sale ■ was described in “Pennywise and Pound Foolish,” a Christchurch entry by S. Blake.

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