Fragment from Caroland's Mansion, 2 Early Films by Frank Stauffacher [2-film compilation].

Format:

Video

Series:

Academic Video Online

UNSEEN CINEMA 6: The Amateur as Auteur: Discoving Paradise in Pictures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

1930s.

Local Subjects:

1930s.

Genre:

Documentary

Physical Description:

1 online resource (8 minutes)

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Filmmakers Showcase, 1938.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

video file

Summary:

AMATEUR AS AUTEUR is part of the film retrospective UNSEEN CINEMA that explores long-forgotten American experimental cinema. Greatly inspired by silent serials, this brief fragment of a now lost longer film, "Caroland's Mansion", is intriguing. Stauffacher's sense of film space and time are clear, and the possibilities within imply a latent Alice Guy or Louis Feuillade in the making. -BRUCE POSNER Frank Stauffacher was recognized as "one of America's leading authorities on the experimental motion picture" ("New York Times"). He made the reknown pioneer San Francisco films, "Sausalito" (1948) and "Notes on the Port of St. Francis" (1951). He was equally honored for his groundbreaking film series "Art in Cinema" held between 1946 and 1954 at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art as well as the 1947 historic publication, "Art in Cinema: A Symposium on the Avantgarde Film Together with Program Notes and References for Series One of Art in Cinema". -BRUCE POSNER EARLY FILMS BY FRANK STAUFFACHER - 2 FILM COMPLIATION129 00:00 FRAGMENT FROM "CAROLAND'S MANSION" (1938, 1:28 minutes) SILENT130 02:36 BICYCLE POLO IN SAN MATEO (1940-42, 5:02 minutes)The 2 little films represent the earliest known surviving efforts at creative filmmaking by Frank Stauffacher. 16mm 1.37:1 black and white color tint color silent 18fps 1:28 minutes

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed March 22, 2021).