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Unseen cinema : early American avant-garde film, 1894-1941 : a DVD retrospective from the world's leading film collections
Title
Unseen cinema : early American avant-garde film, 1894-1941 : a DVD retrospective from the world's leading film collections / Anthology Film Archives, in association with British Film Institute [and others] present ; curator, Bruce Posner ; produced for DVD by David Shepard.
Published
Chatsworth, Calif. : Image Entertainment, 2005.
Physical Description
7 videodiscs (approximately 1,127 min.) : sound and silent, black and white and tinted ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 guide ([15] pages ; 19 cm)
Notes
Originally released as motion pictures between 1894-1941.
Accompanying guide contains an essay by the curator.
Extra features available with DVD-ROM access: filmmaker biographies and photo gallery, acknowledgements, sponsors, film note authors, credits, musicians.
Administered by Robert A. Haller and Winfried Günther.
Summary
"This seven-disc collection contains 155 avant-garde films, revealing hitherto unknown accomplishments of American filmmakers working in the United States and abroad from the invention of cinema until World War II. Offers an innovative and often controversial view of experimental film as a product of avant-garde artists, of professional directors and of amateur moviemakers working collectively and as individuals at all levels of film production."--Container.
Variant and related titles
Early American avant-garde film, 1894-1941
Mechanized eye: experiments in technique and form.
Devil's plaything: American surrealism.
Light rhythms: music and abstraction.
Inverted narratives: new directions in storytelling.
Picturing a metropolis: New York City unveiled.
Amateur as auteur: discovering paradise in pictures.
Viva la dance: the beginnings of cine-dance.
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 30, 2020
Series
Blackhawk Films collection
Credits
Administered by Robert A. Haller and Winfried Günther.
System details note
DVD, NTSC ; region 0 ; full screen (1.33:1) presentations ; Dolby Digital.
Contents
Disc 1. The mechanized eye: experiments in technique and form: Eiffel Tower from Trocadero Palace
Palace of Electricity
Champs de Mars
Panorama of Eiffel Tower
Scene from elevator ascending Eiffel Tower
Captain Nissen going through Whirlpool Rapids, Niagra Falls
Down the Hudson
The ghost train
Westinghouse Works, panorama view, street car motor room
In youth, beside the lonely sea
Melody on parade
La cartomancienne (The fortune teller)
Pie in the sky
Travel notes
Oil: a symphony in motion
Poem 8
Storm
Portrait of a young man.
Disc 2. The devil's plaything: American surrealism: Jack and the beanstalk
Dream of a rarebit fiend
The thieving hand
Impossible convicts
When the clouds roll by
Beggar on horseback
The fall of the house of Usher
The life and death of 9413: a Hollywood extra
The love of zero
The telltale heart
Tomatos another day
The hearts of age
Unreal news reels
The children's jury
Thimble theater
Carousel: animal opera
Jack's dream.
Disc 3. Light rhythms: music and abstraction: Le Retour à la raison
Ballet mécanique
Anémic cinéma
Looney lens: anamorphic people
Out of the melting pot
H20
Surf and seaweed
The furies
Legacy of a Hollywood extra
Skyline dance
Money machine
Prohibition
The firefly (Vorkapich edit)
The firefly (MGM release version)
Maytime
So this is Paris
Light rhythms
Une nuit sur le Mont Chauve (Night on Bald Mountain)
Rhythm in light
Synchromy no. 2
Parabola
Footlight parade ("By a waterfall")
Glen Falls sequence
Simple destiny abstractions
Abstract movies
Scherzo
Themis
Contrathemis
1941
Moods of the sea.
Disc 4. Inverted narratives: new directions in storytelling: The house with closed shutters
Suspense
Moonland
Lullaby
The bridge
Little geezer
Black dawn
Native land
Black legion
Even as you and I
Object lesson
"Sredni Vashtar" by Saki.
Disc 5. Picturing a metropolis: New York City unveiled: The blizzard
Lower Broadway
Beginning of a skyscraper
Panorama from Times Building New York
Skyscrapers of NYC from North River
Panorama from tower of the Brooklyn Bridge
Building up and demolishing the Star Theatre
Coney Island at night
Interior New York Subway 14th Street to 42nd Street
Seeing New York by yacht
Looney lens: split skyscrapers
Looney lens: Tenth Avenue, NYC
8th Avenue elevated train at 112th Street
The trellis: work of sunshine and shade
View of Herald Square Station
Aerial view of Sixth Avenue train at 28th, 26th, 24th
Manhatta
Twentyfour-dollar Island
Skyscraper symphony
Manhattan medley
A Bronx morning
Footnote to fact
Seeing the world
The pursuit of happiness
Gold diggers of 1935 ("Lullaby of Broadway")
Autumn fire.
Disc 6. The amateur as auteur: discovering paradise in pictures: Case sound tests
Windy Ledge Farm
A day in Santa Fe
4 Stewart Family home movies
Children's party
Cotillion
The midnight party
Haiti
Tree trunk to head
Bicycle polo at San Mateo
1126 Dewey Avenue, Apt. 207.
Disc 7. Viva la dance: the beginnings of cine-dance: Annabelle dances and dances
Davy Jones' locker
Neptune's daughters
A nymph of the waves
Diana the huntress
The soul of the cypress
Looney lens: Pas de deux
Hände: das Leben und die Liebe eines zärtlichen Geschlechts (Hands: the life and loves of the gentler sex)
Mechanical principles
Tilly Losch in Her dance of the hands
Dance of the heads
Day of the dead
Oramunde
Hands
Joie de vivre
Wonder Bar ("Don't say goodnight")
Dada
Escape
An optical poem
Abstract experiment in Kodachrome
NBC Valentine greeting
Stars and stripes
Tarantella
Spook sport
Danse macabre
Peer Gynt
Introspection.
Videorecording number
ID0592DSDVD Image Entertainment
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Anthology Film Archives.
British Film Institute.
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