| Description |
7 DVDs (1,127 min.) : sound, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 guide ([15] pages ; 19 cm). |
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Blackhawk Films collection
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Blackhawk Films collection.
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Title from container. |
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Originally released as separate motion pictures, 1894-1941. |
| 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. |
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Summary from container. |
| Contents |
Disc 1. The mechanized eye: experiments in technique and form (DVA 7963). 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 Whirpool 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. |
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Disc 2. The devil's plaything: American surrealism (DVA 7964). 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. |
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Disc 3. Light rhythms: music and abstraction (DVA 7965). 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. |
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Disc 4. Inverted narratives: new directions in storytelling (DVA 7966). 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. |
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Disc 5. Picturing a metropolis: New York City unveiled (DVA 7967). 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. |
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Disc 6. The amateur as auteur: discovering paradise in pictures (DVA 7968). 7 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. |
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Disc 7. Viva la dance: the beginnings of cine-dance (DVA 7969). 7 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. |
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Accompanying guide contains an essay by the curator. |
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Guide filed in MBRS Subjects files (Unseen cinema). DLC |
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Not viewed. |
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Sources used: container; Unseen cinema web site, viewed Mar. 19, 2007. |
| Credits |
Administered by Robert A. Haller and Winfried Günther. |
| System Details |
DVD, NTSC; region 0, full screen (1.33:1) presentations; Dolby Digital. |
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English audio. |
| Subject |
Motion pictures -- United States -- History.
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Motion pictures. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Experimental films -- United States -- History.
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Experimental films. |
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Surrealism in motion pictures.
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Surrealism in motion pictures. |
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Dance in motion pictures, television, etc.
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Dance in motion pictures, television, etc. |
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New York (N.Y.) -- In motion pictures.
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National Book Committee. |
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New York (State) -- New York. |
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Trick films.
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Amateur films.
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Animated films.
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Anthology films.
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City symphonies (Motion pictures)
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Compilation films.
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Experimental films.
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Feature films.
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Film excerpts.
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History.
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Short films.
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Silent films.
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Silent films.
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Short films.
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Feature films.
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Film excerpts.
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Animated films.
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City symphonies (Motion pictures)
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Amateur films.
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Anthology films.
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Experimental films.
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Compilation films.
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Trick films.
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Anthology.
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Experimental.
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Video recordings.
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Video recordings.
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| Added Author |
Posner, Bruce Charles, 1953- research.
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Shepard, David, production.
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Haller, Robert A., production.
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Günther, Winfried, production.
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Anthology Film Archives.
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Image Entertainment (Firm)
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LC Gift Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
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| Added Title |
Early American avant-garde film, 1894-1941 |
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Star Theatre (Motion picture)
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Mechanized eye: experiments in technique and form.
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Devil's plaything: American surrealism.
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Light rhythms: music and abstraction.
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Inverted narratives: new directions in storytelling.
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Picturing a metropolis: New York City unveiled.
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Amateur as auteur: discovering paradise in pictures.
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Viva la dance: the beginnings of cine-dance.
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| Standard No. |
014381059229 |
| Music No. |
ID0592DSDVD Image Entertainment |
