Unseen cinema. 7, Viva la dance. Epileptic seizures, no. 1-8 (1905) : [8-film compilation] / Cineric, Inc. presents ; by Walter G. Chase for American Mutoscope and Biograph Co.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Chase, Walter G., filmmaker.

American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, sponsoring body.

Cineric (Firm), presenter.

Series:

Academic Video Online

Language:

No linguistic content

Subjects (All):

Epileptics.

Convulsions.

Genre:

Silent films.

Nonfiction films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (23 minutes) : silent, black and white

Other Title:

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

Viva la dance : the beginnings of ciné-dance

Epileptic seizures, nos. 1-8

Place of Publication:

United States : Filmmakers Showcase, 1905.

System Details:

video file

Summary:

Viva La Dance is part of the film retrospective Unseen Cinema that explores long-forgotten American experimental cinema. Walter G. Chase's experimental records of epileptic seizure movements present cold, hard facts. Akin to transgressive documentary photographs by later 20th century contemporaries Weegee, Diane Arbus and Peter Joel Witkin, Chase's medical films offend while attracting the viewer's gaze. Not only were the films prepared for serious analytic study, but they also were shown to the public as forbidden curios at "one-cent vaudeville parlors" and carnival sideshow attractions. Morbidly fascinating, the films simultaneously attract the attention of a critical eye as well as that of a curious bystander. -- Bruce Posner. Dr. Walter Greenough Chase, a medical practitioner who was also a well-known Boston art photographer, explored the potential of medical films to assist in the practice of medicine. His cinema studies of epeleptic seizures to "depict pathologic motion" of patients with nervous disorders was the subject of his detailed study, "The Use of the Biograph in Medicine," published in the "Boston Medical and Surgical Journal", November 23, 1905. --Bruce Posner. Epileptic seizures, Nos. 1-8 (1905) - 8 Film Compilation. 16mm from 35mm 1.33:1 black and white silent 14-16 fps 22:18 minutes. Production: American Mutoscope and Biograph Co.

Contents:

Reel no. 1 (626A - H68449) (2:26 minutes)

Reel no. 2 (626B - H68450) (5:49 minutes)

Reel no. 3 (626C - H68451) (2:59 minutes)

Reel no. 4 (626E - H68452) (3:14 minutes)

Reel no. 5 (626F - H68453) (3:00 minutes)

Reel no. 6 (626G - H68454) (32 seconds)

Reel no. 7 (H68797) (3:01 minutes)

Reel no. 8 (H71845) (30 seconds).

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed July 24, 2020).

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

OCLC:

1191031936

Publisher Number:

ASP5053415/marc