- Our Day
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Our Day Directed by Wallace Kelly Produced by Wallace Kelly Cinematography Wallace Kelly Editing by Wallace Kelly Running time 12 min Country United States Our Day is a silent documentary short directed by Wallace Kelly in 1938, about a day in the life of the Kelly family in Lebanon, Kentucky. It starred his mother, wife, brother, pet dog, and Wallace himself. The film countered the contemporary stereotypes of impoverished Southerners eking out a living during the Depression, by documenting a modern home inhabited by adults with sophisticated interests.[1]
Our Day was selected for the National Film Registry by the Librarian of Congress in 2007 as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".[1]
References
- ^ a b "Films Selected to the National Film Registry, Library of Congress - 2007". National Film Registry. http://www.loc.gov/film/nfr2007.html.
External links
- Our Day at the Internet Archive
- Our Day at the Internet Movie Database
Categories:- 1938 films
- American documentary films
- American silent films
- Black-and-white films
- Short documentary films
- United States National Film Registry films
- Documentary films about poverty
- Films shot in Kentucky
- Films set in Kentucky
- Great Depression films
- 1930s documentary films
- Marion County, Kentucky
- Biographical documentary film stubs
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