Golden Years, The
Golden Years, The is a short film from 1960 released on 16mm. It is held in the Prelinger Archives collection.
Bowling alleys and families.
Film opens in surreal set of 1950s modern home with no walls, only furniture. Great footage of every piece of late 1950s Brunswick bowling equipment. Late 1950s family bowling on Brunswick lane.
17:39:40:17 VS surreal set of late 1950s home with no walls, only furniture; housewife in apron look in the refrigerator; boy plays with toy rocket; man reads the paper; girl on telephone.
17:40:13:12 VS CU Brunswick equipment in bowling alley; bowling balls, chairs, ball return, hard wood alley floor.
17:41:10:15 Family fades into shot of complete Brunswick lane; CU man drying hand over fan, picks up bowling ball; man throws ball taking down 9 pins, camera pans up to Brunswick logo; VS Brunswick logos. Ball strikes tenth pin.
17:43:24:18 Man wags finger at his wife as he stands up to bowl, wife sits down at bench with son; Boy grabs coke bottle from bottle holder in back of the seat.
17:44:03:27 Brunswick Telescore projection of bowling scorecard.
17:44:32:24 Woman dries hand over ball return fan, then lifts blue ball.
17:45:12:10 Left handed 1950s woman bowls ball; CU woman foot foul; CU buzzing Brunswick foot foul unit.
17:46:58:17 Woman bowls ball; CU ball knocks down five pins; young boy about seven years old falls trying to bowl ball; CU brunette sisters reaction, smiling; VS ball slowly rolls down alley, boy lying on his stomach watches his roll; CU of strike.
17:48:20:15 CU seven pins knocked down; automatic pin setter clears fallen pins; ball rolls spare; VS automatic pin setter pushes pins onto conveyor and into pin setter.| Golden Years, The | |
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| Produced by | Handy (Jam) Organization |
Production company | Handy (Jam) Organization |
| Distributed by | Handy (Jam) Organization |
Release date | 1960 |
Running time | 14:26 |
| Language | English |
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