Unseen cinema. 4, Inverted narratives. The world today. Issue no. 1. The Black Legion : shadow of fascism over America / Cineric, Inc. presents ; a NYKINO production ; by Mike Gordon, Ralph Steiner, Willard Van Dyke, Ben Maddow, Irving Lerner, Lionel Berman, and Henri-Cartier-Bresson.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Van Dyke, Willard, director.

Steiner, Ralph, 1899-1986, director.

Lerner, Irving, 1909-1976, director.

Maddow, Ben, 1909-1992, director.

Berman, Lionel, director.

Nykino (Organization : New York, N.Y.), production company.

Cineric (Firm), presenter.

Series:

Academic Video Online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--United States.

Motion pictures.

Fascism--United States.

Fascism.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Newsreels.

Short films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (7 minutes)

Other Title:

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

Inverted narratives : new directions in storytelling

Black Legion : shadow of fascism over America

Shadow of fascism over America

Place of Publication:

United States : Filmmakers Showcase, 1936.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

video file

Summary:

INVERTED NARRATIVES is part of the retrospective UNSEEN CINEMA that explores long-forgotten American experimental cinema. Unhappy with the limited structure of league newsreels, NYKino, a splinter filmmaking collective, produced a March of Time-type series under the banner "The World Today". Only two episodes were released, the first premiering with Strand's "The Wave "(1936). This one, like "Native Land," addresses fascism in America. -BRUCE POSNER NYKINO (1934-1937) the radical newsreel group centered around filmmakers Ralph Steiner, Irving Lerner and Leo Hurwitz, who split away from the Workers' Film and Photo League. They felt the League's newsreels were "formless and as poorly made as the commercial reel." NYKino released "Pie in the Sky" (1934) and the two-part, "The World Today "(1936). -BRUCE POSNERWillard Van Dyke, a photographer by age 12, formed in 1932 with Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, and Imogen Cunningham the pivotal West Coast photography group f/64. Moving East, he became a noted documentary film-maker working closely with Pare Lorentz and Ralph Steiner among others. Hands may be his first completed film. - ROBERT A. HALLER. Educated at Dartmouth, Ralph Steiner became a successful commercial and much honored fine art photographer. He made perhaps the first American abstract film, "H2O" (1929), following it with other experiments, some political in nature, some in Hollywood. Steiner also photographed with Paul Strand "The Plow That Broke the Plains" (1936) and co-directed and photographed "The City "(1939) with Willard Van Dyke and Henwar Rodakiewicz. -ROBERT A. HALLER Alternate title: "A Shadow of Fascism over America." 35mm 1.37:1 black and white sound 5:56 minutes. Production NYKINO.

Notes:

"New directions in storytelling".

Title from resource description page (viewed June 29, 2020).

OCLC:

1191031675

Publisher Number:

ASP5053319/marc