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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.
LIBRA DVD 005 884
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- 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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