Dingbat Story, The
Dingbat Story, The is a short film from ca. 1960s released on 16mm. It is held in the Prelinger Archives collection.
21:49:24:27 American flag waving in the wind with text The Dingbat Story superimposed over shot.
21:47:53:09 Young men all wearing dark suits with white shirts seated in movie theatre, man in first seat in front row lights his pipe with a lighter; CU two men watching screen as film begins, flickering light from film on their faces.
21:48:18:10 CU 1950s man with Buddy Holly style glasses watching movie screen, lights from movie screen flicker on mans face, man blinks and adjusts his eyes; CU man s face attentively watching movie screen, lights flicker on his face.
21:50:06:16 VS 1950s men in movie theatre audience; CU man smiling; MS two men watching screen; LS movie theatre audience on one side of theatre.
21:50:22:00 MS business man with moustache, cigar hanging from mouth while talking on the telephone and looking at a piece of paper in his hand, man says into phone with disconcerted look on face Oh that s terrible, I just don t know how that slipped through, you mean you didn t notice either until you finished making the print. I ll have the boys make it over right away and I m sure sorry ; man hangs up phone and facial expression turns from apologetic to angry, man walks through door labeled Art Dept. ; man tosses poster board on goofy looking big eared man s desk; boss leaves office artist s office, goofy artist wearing v-neck sweater with red ascot scarf with white polka dots slinks back into his chair; CU artist looking distressed then gets inspired and calls over all the artists in the office and enthusiastically pitches his idea.
21:53:12:13 Disembodied arms reach into frame grabbing various art supplies, brushes, ink, paint, triangle, ruler, tape; CU disembodied hand of arts draws a bat in red pencil; VS Cu artists making movie title credits for The Dingbat Story ; CU disembodied artists hand drawing animation of a cartoon bat; VS CU disembodied arms demonstrate how the title credits will be made from the various panels of artwork, man holds up reel of film man says boy wait until you see these cheerleaders .
21:54:58:20 MS cartoon artist working at drafting table, man enters from and asks how its going, artist enthusiastically replies boy we ve got a great animation sequence shaking his fists; CU disembodied artists hands one holding a pen the other various panel of a cartoon drawing of a bat.
21:56:19:03 MS woman wearing a bikini fixes her hair looking into a compact mirror, man enters frame and checks lighting with light meter in front of woman; men on photo shoot set smiling and giggle as they watch the model, one man holds a cigar; man checks lighting around woman in bikini again as woman puts on lipstick; CU man prepares movie camera for shooting; MS man goggling at woman in bikini as he walks by while she adjusts her bikini; man adjust set light; camera zooms out from woman on sit wearing bikini holding a beach ball between giant superimposed letter D and N.
21:56:53:12 VS woman wearing bikini being filmed on plane set, woman catches a beach ball for the camera; man rolls over on the ground filming woman in bikini as she runs by him.
21:57:10:06 CU woman in bikini walks past cameraman, pan to CU man looking into movie camera, slowly winding the camera.
21:57:22:20 VS in film studio shooting title credits; CU film running through camera; VS men working on title credits of film in studio.
21:58:34:25 CU spinning audio tape reels; CU disembodied hands mixing and mastering.
21:59:10:29 Man wearing suit leads pack of men into his office wearing a film projector is set up, man opens package with film reel.
22:01:59:16 CU disembodied hand turns on movie projector.| Dingbat Story, The | |
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| Produced by | Calvin Productions |
Production company | Calvin Productions |
| Distributed by | Calvin Productions |
Release date | ca. 1960s |
| Language | English |
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