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Another Frank Capra offers a new interpretation of the great hollywood director beyond the patriotic sentimentalist or the cynical opportunist that he has been taken for. Often cast as a cinematic simpleton or primitive, Capra's exploitation of the stylistic and narrative resources of cinema was, in fact, extremely self-conscious and adventurous in ways typical of artistic modernism. His modernism is also evident in his repeated and strong identification with female characters. Informed by recent work in genre theory and feminist psychology, Another Frank Capra shows Capra to be a "proto-feminist" director whose feminism has been entirely neglected by previous critics.
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Frank Capra 1956 | Our Mr Sun
Frank Capra wrote, produced and directed this 57 minute 1956 television documentary. Since Capra's days at Cal Tech University, he had a life-long fascination with science subjects.
This film features the onscreen and voice talents of:
Eddie Albert is "The Fiction Writer"
Frank Baxter is "Dr. Research"
Sterling Holloway is "Chloro Phyll"
Marvin Miller is "Mr. Sun"
Lionel Barrymore is "Father Time"
Animation direction is by William T. Hurtz
Filmed in Technicolor
The Bell Telphone System sponsored the distribution of this film to school systems in the United States. At its peak, some 600 prints were in circulation.
