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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.
LIBRA DVD 005 888
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- 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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