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Manhatta : a study of the modern Babylon-on-the-Hudson [new music by Donald Sosin] / Anthology Film Archives, British Film Institute, DTS Digital Images, the Library of Congress, the Museum of Modern Art, National Gallery of Art, Nederlands Filmmuseum present ; inspired by Walt Whitman's poem "Mannahatta" ; photographed by Paul Strand and Charles Sheeler.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- No linguistic content
- Subjects (All):
- Manhattan (New York, N.Y.).
- Genre:
- Experimental films.
- Short films.
- Silent films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (12 minutes)
- Contained In:
- Contained in (manifestation): Masterworks of American avant-garde experimental film, 1920-1970
- Place of Publication:
- Los Angeles, CA : Flicker Alley, 2015.
- Language Note:
- Silent film with poem written in English and featured as intertitles.
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- In 1920, photographer Paul Strand and painter-photographer Charles Sheeler, who had acquired a French 35mm Debrie movie camera, collaborated on a short non-commercial art film, no titled Manhatta. They began to shoot in lower Manhattan, working without scenario or script. Many of the scenes were made from the upper floors of skyscrapers in order to emphasize the geometric character of the city's architecture and to suggest the ant-like character of its population. In their press release, Strand wrote that they had tried to "register directly the living forms in front of them and reduce [them] through rigid selection ... to their most intensest [sic] terms of expressiveness ... " to capture the "elusive spirit" of New York, without resorting to "artifice or photographic trickery". 2K restoration from 35 mm 1.33:1 black & white silent 16 fps; new music by Donald Sosin.
- Credits:
- Digital restoration produced and supervised by Bruce Posner.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed January 02, 2018).
- Contains:
- Inspired by: Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892. Leaves of grass. Selections
- OCLC:
- 1022738295
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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