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Release / film by Bill Morrison ; Hypnotic Pictures.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- No linguistic content
- Subjects (All):
- Spectators--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Spectators.
- Capone, Al, 1899-1947.
- Capone, Al.
- Video art.
- Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Genre:
- Experimental films.
- Short films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 streaming video file (13 min.) : digital, sound, black and white
- monochrome
- Place of Publication:
- [Brooklyn, New York] : [Distributed by] Icarus Films, [2020]
- Language Note:
- Silent film with English credits, ambient noise, and musical accompaniment.
- System Details:
- System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- video file
- Summary:
- On March 17, 1930, a crowd assembled outside Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary in hopes of witnessing Al Capone's release from prison. Morrison and Vijay Iyer turn a single archival panning shot of that scene (originally filmed in 1930 by Jack Painter) and its accompanying audio track (recorded in 1930 by Addison Tice) into a split-screen surround sound panoramic film that continually doubles back on itself, creating a short cinematic meditation on the nature of spectacle and spectatorship.
- Credits:
- Sound design by Vijay Iyer.
- Notes:
- Title from title frames.
- Originally produced by: Hypnotic Pictures, ©2010.
- Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed September 14, 2020).
- Publisher Number:
- if-rel Docuseek2
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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