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Viva la dance : the beginnings of ciné-dance / 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.
Beheim, Eric, composer.
Wheeler, Mary Binney, dancer.
Anthology Film Archives, producer.
British Film Institute, producer.
Image Entertainment (Firm), distributor.
Series:
Unseen cinema ; 7.
Unseen cinema : early American avant-garde film, 1894-1941 ; 7
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Dance in motion pictures, television, etc--United States--History.
Dance in motion pictures, television, etc.
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.
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:
"Dance and film have shared the aspiration to creatively sculpt motion and time"--http://www.unseen-cinema.com/.
Contents:
Annabelle dances and dances (1894-1897) / W.K.L. Dickson, William Heise & James White
"Early superimpositions" / Frederick S. Armitage
Davy Jones locker (1900) / Frederick Armitage
Neptune's daughters (1900) / Frederick Armitage
A nymph of the waves (1900) / Frederick Armitage
Diana the huntress (1916) / Charles Allen & Francis Trevelyan Miller (excerpt)
The soul of the cypress (1920) / Dudley Murphy
Looney lens: Pas de deux (1924) / Al Brick
Hände : Das Leben und die Liebe eines Zärtlichen Geschlechts (Hands: the life and loves of the gentler sex) (1927-28) / Stella Simon & Miklos Bandy
Mechanical principles (1930) / Ralph Steiner
Tilly Losch in her dance of the hands (c. 1930-33) / Norman Bel Geddes
2 Sergei Eisenstein's Mexican footage (1931) / Sergei Eisenstein (excerpts)
Oramunde (1933) / Emlen Etting; dancer: Mary Binney Wheeler
Hands (1934) / Ralph Steiner & Willard Van Dyke
Joie de vivre (1934) / Anthony Gross & Hector Hoppin
Wonder bar: "Don't say goodnight" (1934) / Busby Berkeley (excerpt)
Dada (1936) / Mary Ellen Bute & Ted Nemeth
Escape (1938) / Mary Ellen Bute & Ted Nemeth
An Optical poem (1938) / Oskar Fischinger
Abstract experiment in Kodachrome (c. 1940-50s) / Slavko Vorpapich
NBC valentine greeting (1939-40) / Norman McLaren
Stars and Stripes (1940) / Norman McLaren
Tarantella (1940) / Mary Ellen Bute, Ted Nemeth & Norman McLaren
Spook sport (1940) / Mary Ellen Bute, Ted Nemeth & Norman McLaren
Danse macabre (1922) / Dudley Murphy & Francis Brugière
Peer Gynt (1941) / David Bradley, starring Charlton Heston (excerpt)
Opening titles
Pagan dance
Introspection (1941/46) / Sara Kathryn Arledge.
Credits:
Administered by Robert A. Haller and Winfried Günther ; music, Eric Beheim ... [et al.]
Notes:
Aspect ratio 1.33:1.
Originally released between 1894 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:
62279630
Publisher Number:
014381059229 (set)
ID0592DSDVD Image Entertainment

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