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The mechanized eye : experiments in technique and form / Anthology Film Archives in association with the British Film Institute ... [and others] ; curated by Bruce Posner, produced for DVD by David Shepard.
LIBRA DVD 005 882 disc + booklet
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Unseen cinema ; 1.
- Unseen cinema : early American avant-garde film, 1894-1941 ; 1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Experimental films--United States.
- Experimental films.
- Motion pictures--United States.
- Motion pictures.
- Motion pictures, American.
- History.
- United States.
- Motion pictures, American--History.
- Surrealism in motion pictures.
- Dance in motion pictures, television, etc.
- Genre:
- Experimental films.
- Silent films.
- Short films.
- Documentary films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (161 min.) : sound & silent, black and white and tinted ; 4 3/4 in. + (1 booklet [16] pages ; 19 cm).
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : distributed exclusively by Image Entertainment, [2005]
- System Details:
- DVD - NTSC; Dolby digital stereo; Region 0.
- digital
- optical
- stereo
- Dolby
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- "The dynamic qualities of motion pictures are explored by cameramen and filmakers through novel experiments in technique and form."--Container.
- Contents:
- 5 Paris Exposition films (1900) / James White: Eiffel Tower from Trocadero Palace (1900)
- Palace of Electricity (1900)
- Champs de Mars (1900)
- Panorama of Eiffel Tower (1900)
- Scene from elevator ascending Eiffel Tower (1900)
- Captain Nissen going through Whirlpool Rapids, Niagara Falls (1901 : creators unknown)
- Down the Hudson (1903) / Frederick Armitage & A.E. Weed
- The ghost train (1903 : creators unknown)
- Westinghouse Works, panorama view Street Car Motor Room (1904) / G.W. "Billy" Bitzer
- In youth, beside the lonely sea (c. 1924-25 : creators unknown).
- Melody on parade (c. 1936 : creators unknown)
- La cartomancienne (The Fortune Teller) (1932) / Jerome Hill
- Pie in the sky (1934-35) / Nykino: Elia Kazan, Ralph Steiner & Irving Lerner
- Travel notes (1932) / Walker Evans
- Oil: a symphony in motion (1933) / Artkino: M.G. MacPherson & Jean Michelson
- Poem 8 (1932-33) / Emlen Etting
- Storm (1942-43) / Paul Burnford
- Portrait of a young man (1925-31) / Henwar Rodakiewicz
- Movement one
- Movement two
- Movement three.
- Credits:
- Administered by Robert A. Haller and Winfried Günther.
- Notes:
- Aspect ratio 1.33:1.
- Originally released in the 1900.
- Special features: New recordings of original music by George Antheil, Marc Blitzstein and others; new film scores by Eric Beheim, Neal Kurz, Paul A. Lehrman, Guy Livingston, Rodney Sauer, Donald Sosin and others; film notes and filmmaker biographies by historians and scholars Kevin Brownlow, David Curtis, Robert A. Haller, Jan-Christopher Horak, David James, Scott MacDonald, Bruce Posner, David Shepard, Paul Spehr, Cecile Starr and 32 others; rare photos of the films and filmmakers; essay by curator Bruce Posner.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George R. Fink Memorial Fund.
- OCLC:
- 62205961
- Publisher Number:
- 014381059229 (set)
- ID0592DSDVD Image Entertainment
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