Showing posts with label Arnold Fanck. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Arnold Fanck. Show all posts

Tuesday, 9 November 2021

S.O.S. Iceberg (1933)


 

An Arctic expedition searches for a party of adventurers that went missing a year ago.

Semi-documentary adventure drama has a fairly conventional narrative, but is spectacular in its dramatic scenes of Arctic dangers, all photographed on location.

Halliwell*: "At the time this was a spectacular semi-documentary, but it did no business."

Maltin***: "Vivid drama with many hair-raising scenes, shot on locations...filled with striking images...American version...is substantially different. It opens with entirely different exposition and features much more dialogue, until the climax." 



Monday, 15 March 2021

Das Wolkenphänomen von Maloja (1924)



 

The cloud phenomena of Maloja is a cloud bank that winds its way through the Alpine pass like a river.

Fascinating silent short documenting in beautiful b/ photography an unusual Alpine weather phenomenon.