Unseen cinema. 2, The devil's playground. Episode 12, The enigmatic cinema of Joseph Cornell. Part I, Out of the melting pot (1927) ; Filming the fantastic! (1936) ; New newsreel -- the children's jury (c. 1938) / Cineric, Inc. presents ; [directed by Joseph Cornell].

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Cornell, Joseph, director.

Cineric (Firm), presenter.

W.J. Ganz Studio, production company.

Series:

Academic Video Online

Language:

No linguistic content

Subjects (All):

Surrealism in motion pictures.

Experimental films--United States.

Experimental films.

Motion pictures--United States.

Motion pictures.

Genre:

Short films.

Silent films.

Experimental films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (22 minutes)

Other Title:

Out of the melting pot (1928) : the enigmatic cinema of Joseph Cornell I : [3-film compilation]

Devil's playground : American surrealism

Unseen cinema : early American avant-garde film, 1893-1941

Place of Publication:

[United States] : Filmmakers Showcase, 1927.

Language Note:

Silent with musical accompaniment.

System Details:

video file

Summary:

THE DEVIL'S PLAYGROUND is part of the film retrospective UNSEEN CINEMA that explores long-forgotten American experimental cinema. Many early short subjects cloaked genuine aesthetic discourse inside novelty approaches, such as the exploration of slow, fast, or reverse motion, distortion and abstraction, and other altered perceptions induced via camera tricks. The transitions of zoo animals from abstract to realistic renditions highlight the differences between the two states. -BRUCE POSNER. The eclectic composer Alec Wilder hailed from Rochester and wrote hundreds of compositions of American jazz and popular songs and European classical music. Fans included Frank Sinatra and Rochester's J.S. Watson, Jr. As a gift, he wrote "Tomatos Another Day" (1930), a series of verbal-visual "bad puns," for Watson to film. -BRUCE POSNER ENIGMATIC CINEMA OF JOSEPH CORNELL, PT 1 (1928-1938) - 3 FILM COMPILATION33 00:00 OUT OF THE MELTING POT (1928, 1:56 minutes)34 02:42 ; ADVENTURES OF THE NEWSREEL CAMERAMAN - FILMING THE FANTASTIC! (1936, 9:42 minutes)35 12:24 ; THE CHILDREN'S JURY - NEW NEWSREEL (c. 1938, 8:31 minutes).Amateur film enthusiast and collage artist Joseph Cornell made homespun cinema creations outside the limelight of commercial cinema production and distribution. In fact, he never handled a movie camera to shoot his own material opting to make use of "found footage" culled from early pioneer trick films, silent feature films, newsreels, travelogues, nature studies, and industrials among numerous others. -BRUCE POSNER. 16mm from 35mm 1:37:1 black and white color tint silent with music 1:56 minutes. Production: W.J. Ganz Studio.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed June 16, 2020).

"American surrealism".

"Early American avant-garde film, 1893-1941".

OCLC:

1191031991

Publisher Number:

ASP5053255/marc