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Inverted narratives : new directions in storytelling / Anthology Film Archives in association with the British Film Institute ... [and others] ; curated by Bruce Posner, produced for DVD by David Shepard.
LIBRA DVD 005 885
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Unseen cinema ; 4.
- Unseen cinema : early American avant-garde film, 1894-1941 ; 4
- 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 (155 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:
- "Early directors D.W. Griffith and Lois Weber develop the radical language of cinema narrative through audience-friendly melodramas made for nickelodeon theaters"--Container.
- Contents:
- The house with closed shutters (1910) / D.W. Griffith
- Suspense (1913) / Lois Weber & Philips Smalley
- Moonland (c. 1923-26) / Neil McGuire & William A. O'Connor
- Lullaby (1929) / Boris Deutsch
- The bridge (1929-30) / Charles Vidor
- Little geezer (1932) / Theodore Huff
- Black dawn (1933) / Josef Berne
- "Titles"
- "Plowing"
- "End of day"
- "A night to remember"
- Native land (1937-41) / Leo Hurwitz & Paul Strand
- "Bought and paid for"
- "On the march"
- "Millions of little people"
- "Murder One man"
- The world today : Black legion (1936-37) / Nykino
- Even as you and I (1937) / Roger Barlow, Harry Hay & Le Roy Robbins
- Object lesson (1941) / Christopher Young
- "Sredni Vashtar" by Saki (1940-43) / David Bradley.
- Credits:
- Administered by Robert A. Haller and Winfried Günther ; music, Eric Beheim ... [et al.]
- Notes:
- Aspect ratio 1.33:1.
- Originally released between 1910 and 1943.
- 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:
- 62256769
- Publisher Number:
- 014381059229 (set)
- ID0592DSDVD Image Entertainment
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