Candid Cameramaniacs

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Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaThis MGM short film, part of the A Pete Smith Specialty series, takes a humorous looks at photography. Starting with Louis Daguerre's first photo, which terrified his maid, to wedding photos... Leggi tuttoThis MGM short film, part of the A Pete Smith Specialty series, takes a humorous looks at photography. Starting with Louis Daguerre's first photo, which terrified his maid, to wedding photos where the the groom sat and the bride stood, eventually anyone was able to take snaps. Ne... Leggi tuttoThis MGM short film, part of the A Pete Smith Specialty series, takes a humorous looks at photography. Starting with Louis Daguerre's first photo, which terrified his maid, to wedding photos where the the groom sat and the bride stood, eventually anyone was able to take snaps. Newspapers wanted photos and cameramen took candid snaps. The challenges faced by the amateu... Leggi tutto

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Bobby Caldwell

Sonny, Otto's Son
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Lester Dorr

Sneaky Cameraman at Wedding
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Tom Herbert

Turn-of-the-Century Photographer with Automobile
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Leonid Kinskey

Otto
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Gwen Lee

Drowzina, Otto's Wife
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Roger Moore

Sitting Groom
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Lee Phelps

Cop
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Harry Semels

19th Century Photographer with Moustache
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Pete Smith

Narrator
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Ferris Taylor

Bride's Father
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E. Alyn Warren

Daguerre
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Quiz
A print of this film survives in the UCLA Film and Television Archives.

Citazioni
[first lines]
Narrator: Down a lonely street, a courageous policeman trails a desperate character ready to shoot it out. In a nearby window, another menace stealthily points at the approaching officer.
[a gun is seen poking out from behind a blind]
Narrator: Down here still further, danger threatens.
[a man pops up out of a sewer grate]
Narrator: . And now for the shooting! But relax my friends, this shooting's harmless - it's just the candid camera urge.
[everyone pulls out cameras instead of the anticipated guns]
Narrator: When it gets you, nothing else seems to matter very much.

Connessioni
References Grand Hotel (1932)

Colonne sonore
Pop Goes the Weasel
Written by Charles Twiggs
Performed by studio orchestra

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5/10

Pete Smith's Candid Camera

As far as Pete Smith Specialty shorts go, this was a pretty good one. It's all about fun with early photography. Some history is given, including that of Frenchman Louis Daguerre, who, it can be argued, took the first practical photograph in the early 1800's.

As usual, Pete tries for laughs as we follow a modern (for the 1930's), family man photographer as he annoys his family, trying to get them to pose for his photographic obsession. If you've ever seen a Pete Smith short, you know what I mean by "tries for laughs". If the kind of stuff Pete did was considered funny in the 1930's, I don't know, but his humor definitely falls under the "groaner" banner in the 21st century.

Overall, I'd say this hits the upper end of the Pete Smith scale. Of course, that's not saying a lot.