MUSCLE BEACH

by Joseph STRICK
1948 / b&w / sound / 9' 00

Strick together with Irving Lerner made their first film with a 35mm cine-camera from the military stock. They managed to make a rich twirl of impressions and images out of the athletic motion of muscular bodies on a beach, a seemingly shallow material. Note: a filmmaker Irving Lerner, the author of short documentaries, educational films and sociology studies, later the head of the educational film institute of New York university, produced films for the Military Information Office during the war, such as Library of Congress or Toscanini: Hymns of the Nations, he was also an editor of the latter, both these films were directed by Alexander Hammid!



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