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Picturing a metropolis : New York City unveiled / Anthology Film Archives in association with the British Film Institute ... [and others] ; curated by Bruce Posner, produced for DVD by David Shepard.
LIBRA DVD 005 886
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Unseen cinema ; 5.
- Unseen cinema : early American avant-garde film, 1894-1941 ; 5
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures, American.
- History.
- Experimental films.
- New York (N.Y.)--In motion pictures.
- New York (N.Y.).
- National Book Committee.
- Experimental films--United States.
- Motion pictures--United States.
- Motion pictures.
- United States.
- Motion pictures, American--History.
- Surrealism in motion pictures.
- Dance in motion pictures, television, etc.
- Genre:
- Silent films.
- Short films.
- Documentary films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (152 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 DVD depicts dynamic images of New York City and scenes of New Yorkers among the skyscrapers, streets, and night life of America's greatest city during a half century of progress, while at the same time showing changes in film style and the history of cinema experiments"--http://www.unseen-cinema.com/.
- Contents:
- "Early views"
- The Blizzard (1899) / creators unknown
- Lower Broadway (1902) / Robert K. Bonine
- Beginning of a skyscraper (1902) / Robert K. Bonine
- Panorama from Times Building, New York (1905) / Wallace McCutcheon
- Skyscrapers of NYC from North River (1903) / J.B. Smith
- Panorama from Tower of the Brooklyn Bridge (1903) / G.W. "Billy" Bitzer
- "Tricks of the trade" Demolishing and building up the Star Theatre (1901) / Frederick S. Armitage
- Coney Island at night (1905) / Edwin S. Porter
- Interior New York Subway 14th Street to 42nd Street (1905) / G.W. "Billy" Bitzer
- Seeing New York by yacht (1902) / Frederick Armitage & A.E. Weed
- Looney Lens: Split skyscrapers (1924) / Al Brick
- Looney Lens: Tenth Avenue, NYC (1924) / Al Brick
- Scenes from Ford Educational Weekly (1916-24) / creators unknown
- 8th Avenue elevated train at 112th Street
- The trellis : work of sunshine and shade View of Herald Square Station Aerial view of Sixth Ave. train at 28th, 26th, 24th Manhatta (1921) / Charles Sheeler & Paul Strand
- Twenty four Dollar Island (c. 1926) / Robert Flaherty
- Skyscraper symphony (1929) / Robert Florey
- Manhattan medley (1931) / Bonney Powell
- A Bronx morning (1931) / Jay Leyda
- Footnote to fact (1933) / Lewis Jacobs
- "Seeing the world," part one: a visit to New York, N.Y. (1937) / Rudy Burckhardt
- The Pursuit of happiness (1940) / Rudy Burckhardt
- Gold Diggers of 1935 : "Lullaby of Broadway" (1935) / Busby Berkeley
- Autumn fire (1930-33) / Herman Weinberg.
- Credits:
- Administered by Robert A. Haller and Winfried Günther ; music, Eric Beheim ... [et al.]
- Notes:
- Aspect ratio 1.33:1.
- Originally released between 1899 and 1940.
- 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:
- 62262149
- Publisher Number:
- 014381059229 (set)
- ID0592DSDVD Image Entertainment
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