Weddings and babies

Duration: 81

Year Published: 1960

Creator: / Morris Engel Associates ; original story, Morris Engel ; story treatment, Mary-Madeleine Lanphier, Blanche Hanalis and Irving Sunasky ; [written, produced and directed by] Morris Engel.

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Credits: Engel, Morris, 1918-2005.; Lanphier, Mary-Madeleine.; Hanalis, Blanche, 1915-1992.; Sunasky, Irving.; Manson, Eddy L. (Eddy Lawrence), 1922-; Russell, Stan.; Barile, Chiarina.; Elliott, Leonard.; Lindfors, Viveca, 1920-1995.; Myhers, John.; Alexander, Michael.; Morris Engel Associates.; Audio Brandon Films.

Description: Production dates and credits taken from AFI and Variety.; AFI notes that this film was produced in 1958 and released in 1960.; Pacific Film Archive collection; non-circulating. CBPF.; Photographer, Morris Engel ; editors, Stan Russell, Michael Alexander ; music composer and conductor, Eddy Manson.; American Film Institute Catalog: feature films.; Variety Film Reviews, 09/17/58.; Viveca Lindfors, John Myhers, Chiarina Barile, Leonard Elliott, Joanna Merlin, Chris, Gabriel Kohn, Mary Faranda.; In New York's Little Italy, a Swedish-born woman (Lindfors) yearns to begin a family with her photographer boyfriend Al (Myhers). But the two things to which Al has devoted his career--weddings and babies--are the very things he cannot make room for in his own life. Engel's photojournalistic style profoundly influenced the independent cinema of the 1960's.

Metadata Source:BERKELEY ART MUSEUM AND PACIFIC FILM ARCHIVE