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Light rhythms : music and abstraction / Anthology Film Archives in association with the British Film Institute ... [and others] ; curated by Bruce Posner, produced for DVD by David Shepard.

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Format:
Video
Contributor:
Posner, Bruce Charles, 1953- curator.
Shepard, David, producer.
Antheil, George, 1900-1959, composer.
Anthology Film Archives, producer.
British Film Institute, producer.
Image Entertainment (Firm), distributor.
Series:
Unseen cinema ; 3.
Unseen cinema : early American avant-garde film, 1894-1941 ; 3
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 (168 min.) : sound & silent, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in.
Place of Publication:
New York, NY : distributed exclusively by Image Entertainment, [2005]
System Details:
DVD - NTSC; Dolby digital stereo; Region 0.
digital
optical
Dolby
NTSC
video file
DVD video
Summary:
"The rhythmic elements of cinema are explored by artists and filmmakers fascinated by the abstract qualities of light"--Container.
Contents:
Le Retour á la raison (1923) / Man Ray
Ballet mécanique (1923-24) / Fernand Léger & Dudley Murphy
Anémic cinéma (1924-26) / Rrose Sélavy (Marcel Duchamp)
Looney Lens: Anamorphic People (1927) / Al Brick
Out of the Melting Pot (1927 : creators unknown)
H20 (1929) / Ralph Steiner
Surf and Seaweed (1929-30) / Ralph Steiner
Vorkapich Montage Sequences (1928-37) / Slavko Vorkapich: The Furies (1934)
Legacy of a Hollywood extra
Skyline Dance (1928)
Money Machine (1929)
Prohibition (1929)
The Firefly (Vorkapich edit) (1937)
The Firefly (MGM release version) (1937)
Maytime (1937)
Light and abstraction
So This Is Paris (1926) / Ernst Lubitsch (excerpt)
Light Rhythms (1930) / Francis Bruguiére
Une nuit sur le Mont Chauve (Night on Bald Mountain) (1934) / Alexandre Alexeieff & Claire Parker
Rhythm in Light (1934) / Mary Ellen Bute, Ted Nemeth & Melville Webber
Synchromy No. 2 (1936) / Mary Ellen Bute & Ted Nemeth
Parabola (1937) / Rutherford Boyd, Mary Ellen Bute & Ted Nemeth
Footlight Parade "By a Waterfall" (1933) / Busby Berkeley
Glens Falls Sequence (1937-46) / Douglass Crockwell
Simple Destiny Abstractions (1937-40) / Douglass Crockwell
Abstract Movies (1937-47) / George L.K. Morris
Scherzo (1939) / Norman McLaren
Composition no. 1: Themis (1940) / Dwinell Grant
Composition no. 2: Contrathemis (1941) / Dwinell Grant
1941 (1941) / Francis Lee
Moods of the Sea (1941) / Slavko Vorkapich & John Hoffman.
Credits:
Administered by Robert A. Haller and Winfried Günther ; music, George Antheil ... [et al.]
Notes:
Aspect ratio 1.33:1.
Originally released between 1923 and 1946.
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.
OCLC:
62220914
Publisher Number:
014381059229 (set)
ID0592DSDVD Image Entertainment

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