He drove to St. George on the day after the festival, where the Millers also hosted, with their usual gr. gen. It should be recorded that Dad did have that accident, which Lucy kind of supervised, with the exercise ball.
He drove the rest of the way home on the day after that.
Here is his Festival report:
The drive was a bit blustery!
The event was down in Westwood, ...
... in the Armand Hammer Museum, ...
... which houses the kinda new, extremely nice Billy Wilder Theatre.
It's been a long time since the days when I worked on the restoration of vintage and classic films, and more than twenty-five years since I went to this particular annual event. I'd forgotten how many extremely dedicated (skilled, public-spirited) and quite unusual (eccentric, obsessed, possibly dangerous) individuals work in and loiter around this part of the film industry.
Of course the very last part of this last observation doesn't have anything to do with me.
This year, for the first time, the entire festival was crowded into a single weekend.
I saw the following films.
Day one:
Swing Hutton Swing (musical short, US, 1937)
My Lips Betray (musical feature, US, 1933)
Krakatoa (documentary short, US, 1933)
Voice in the Wind (dramatic feature, US, 1944)
The Crooked Way (dramatic feature/film noir, US, 1949)
El Fantasma del Convento (horror, Mexico, 1933)
Wings Over Mt. Everest (documentary short, UK, 1935)
The Mortal Storm (war film, US, 1940)
Trapped (dramatic feature/film noir, US, 1949)
The Man Who Cheated Himself (dramatic feature/film noir, 1951)
Day two:
Brotherhood of Man (dramatic short, US, 1912)
Captain Jinks' Evolution (comic short, US, 1916)
The Frame-Up on Dad (comic short, US, 1915)
Across the Hall (comic short, US, 1916)
The Hobble Skirt (comic short, US, 1910)
The Sale of a Heart (dramatic short, US, 1913)
Beware of Married Men (comic short, fragment, US, 1928)
The Killing Floor (dramatic feature, US, 1985)
Enamorada (dramatic/comic/romantic feature, Mexico, 1946)
Smouldering Fires (drama/romance, US, 1925)
Interlude:
In case any of you were wondering, I also, as did June Gittelson's character in the immortal Three Stooges' comedy False Alarms (1936), went places and ate things.
The LA County public library, Westwood branch:
Various upscale eateries, what with my generous expense account and all:
The Hammer Museum itself (Rembrandt, Daumier, Magritte, PP, Hopper, Gris, Gauguin, VvG, Bernard, Corot):
And, on a beautiful clear Sunday morning, the place where our family originated, so to speak:
Day three:
Alibi (dramatic/gangster feature, US, 1929)
Jasper Goes Hunting (cartoon, US, 1944)
A Hatful of Dreams (cartoon, US, 1944)
The Old Man of the Mountain (cartoon, US, 1932)
Pink Elephants (cartoon, US, 1937)
The Banker's Daughter (cartoon, US, 1933)
Caviar (cartoon, US, 1930)
Freight Yard Symphony (cartoon, US, 1963)
The Battle of the Century (comic short, US, 1927)
Perfect Day (comic short, US, 1929)
Hog Wild (US, 1930)
Brats (US, 1932)
That's 32 titles!
I also read this book, which has a number of uncomplimentary things to say about Glendale, CA:
Back in La Cañada, it continued fresh and clear and California cold.
And always, this ...
Lots of fun. Thanks, all!
