Misplaced Pages

Battle for Life is a nature documentary series made from 1932 until 1934 by Horace Woodard and Stacy Woodard, The short films include the 1935 Oscar award-winning City of Wax, about honey bees. The one-reel short films were released by Educational Pictures. A homemade camera setup for closeups was used. The Woodards followed the series with another series titled Struggle to Live.

Battle for Life films were made with specially designed cameras.

Filmography

• Beneath Our Feet (1933)
• City of Wax (1934)

City of Wax

City of Wax is a 1934 American short documentary film produced by Horace and Stacy Woodard about the life of a bee. It won the Oscar at the 7th Academy Awards in 1935 for Best Short Subject (Novelty). The Academy Film Archive preserved City of Wax in 2007.

References

1. ^ Erickson, Hal (October 1, 2020). A Van Beuren Production: A History of the 619 Cartoons, 875 Live Action Shorts, Four Feature Films and One Serial of Amedee Van Beuren. McFarland. ISBN 9781476640983 – via Google Books.
2. Erickson, Hal (October 1, 2020). A Van Beuren Production: A History of the 619 Cartoons, 875 Live Action Shorts, Four Feature Films and One Serial of Amedee Van Beuren. McFarland. ISBN 9781476640983 – via Google Books.
3. "Catalog of Copyright Entries". 1933.
4. THOMAS M. PRYOR. FULFILLING A PROMISE; Film Producers Open Their Vaults to Promote Education by Pictures. New York Times July 9, 1939, Sunday p 113
5. "The 7th Academy Awards (1935) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Archived from the original on July 6, 2011. Retrieved August 7, 2011.
6. "New York Times: City of Wax". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2011. Archived from the original on May 20, 2011. Retrieved May 12, 2008.
7. "Preserved Projects". Academy Film Archive.

External links

• City of Wax at IMDb

This article about a nature documentary film is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e

This article about a short documentary film is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e

• 1934 films
• 1934 documentary films
• 1934 short films
• 1930s short documentary films
• American documentary films
• Black-and-white documentary films
• Live Action Short Film Academy Award winners
• American black-and-white films
• Documentary films about bees
• 1930s English-language films
• 1930s American films
• English-language short documentary films
• Nature documentary film stubs
• Short documentary film stubs