Facing Your Danger

Facing Your Danger
Facing Your Danger
Directed by	Edwin E. Olsen
Written by	DeLeon Anthony
Produced by	Gordon Hollingshead
Starring	non listed
Narrated by	Knox Manning
Cinematography	Edwin E. Olsen
Edited by	DeLeon Anthony
Music by	Rex Dunn
Production; company	Vitaphone
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release date	May 11, 1946;
Running time	10 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Facing Your Danger is a 1946 American short film. The cameraman was amateur filmmaker Edwin E. Olsen. Using a Cine-Kodak and 16mm Kodachrome film, Olsen shot the film in 1942 on a Grand Canyon river trip conducted by Norman Nevills. Another amateur cameraman on the trip was Otis R. Marston. When Olsen ran out of film, Marston, who had brought 6,000 feet of Kodachrome magazines, provided Olsen with what he needed. Olsen edited the film and sold it to Warner Brothers in 1946. Lee Anthony and Gordon Hollingshead collaborated to re-edit and shorten the film to a one reel for theater release.

Facing Your Danger won an Oscar at the 19th Academy Awards in 1947 for Best Short Subject (One-Reel).^[1] This was the first time an Academy Award went to a film shot by an amateur filmmaker using a 16mm camera.^[2]^[3]

Plot

Cast

Norman Nevills as Self

References

^ "The 19th Academy Awards (1947) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved May 29, 2019.
^ "New York Times: Facing Your Danger". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2011. Archived from the original on May 20, 2011. Retrieved May 18, 2008.
^ Marston, Otis R., (2014). "From Powell To Power; A Recounting of the First One Hundred River Runners Through the Grand Canyon. Flagstaff, Arizona: Vishnu Temple Press, p. 427, 430 ISBN 978-0990527022