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The amateur as auteur : discovering paradise in pictures / Anthology Film Archives in association with the British Film Institute ... [and others] ; curated by Bruce Posner, produced for DVD by David Shepard.
LIBRA DVD 005 887
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Unseen cinema ; 6.
- Unseen cinema : early American avant-garde film, 1894-1941 ; 6
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Amateur films--United States--History.
- Amateur films.
- 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 (175 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:
- "These home-made films incorporate avant-garde strategies and techniques to achieve a true sense of cinematic intimacy"--www.unseen-cinema.com
- Contents:
- Case sound tests (c. 1924-25) / Theodore Case & Earl Sponable
- Windy Ledge Farm (c. 1929-34) / Elizabeth Woodman Wright
- A day in Santa Fe (1931) / Lynn Riggs & James Hughes
- 4 Stewart Family home movies (c. 1935-39) / Archie Stewart
- Children's party (c. 1938) / Joseph Cornell
- Cotillion (c. 1938) / Joseph Cornell
- The Midnight party (c. 1938) / Joseph Cornell
- Haiti (1938) / Rudy Burckhardt
- Tree trunk to head (1938) / Lewis Jacobs
- Bicycle polo at San Mateo (1940-42) / Frank Stauffacher
- 1126 Dewey Avenue, Apt. 207 (1939) / John C. Hecker.
- Credits:
- Administered by Robert A. Haller and Winfried Günther ; music, Neal Kurz ...[et al.]
- Notes:
- Aspect ratio 1.33:1.
- Originally released between 1924 and 1942.
- 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:
- 62271317
- Publisher Number:
- 014381059229 (set)
- ID0592DSDVD Image Entertainment
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