Unseen cinema. 7, Viva la dance. Dada : universal clip / Cineric Inc. presents ; by Mary Ellen Bute & Ted Nemeth.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Nemeth, Ted, 1911-1986, director.

Bute, Mary Ellen, director.

Cineric (Firm), presenter.

Series:

Academic Video Online

Language:

No linguistic content

Genre:

Experimental films.

Animated films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (2 minutes)

Other Title:

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

Viva la dance : the beginnings of ciné-dance

Place of Publication:

United States : Filmmakers Showcase, 1936.

System Details:

video file

Summary:

Viva La Dance is part of the film retrospective Unseen Cinema that explores long-forgotten American experimental cinema. One of the liveliest of Mary Ellen Bute's abstract films, "Dada" was intended to be part of a Universal Newsreel segment, showing Bute and her partner Ted Nemeth at work in their tiny New York studio. No copies of the newsreel itself are known to exist at this time. --Cecile Starr By 1934, Mary Ellen Bute was purposefully engaged in making abstract films and by 1954 was exploring electronic imagery. Trained in painting and stage lighting, she continued theoretical studies with mathematician Joseph Schillinger and musician Leon Theremin. Her early collaborators in film were Schillinger, Lewis Jacobs and Melville Webber, but it was with cameraman Ted Nemeth that she realized an ongoing series of short "seeing-sound" films. She also filmed a feature-length version of James Joyce's "Finnegan's Wake". --Bruce PosnerBefore producing and filming Bute's short abstract films (1931-1953), Ted Nemeth learned his craft creating special effects for feature film "trailers." As head of his own New York studio, founded in 1940 (the year Bute and he were married), he made documentaries, commercials, and short subjects, two of which were Academy Award nominees. --Aram Boyajian. Alternate title: "Universal Clip". 35mm 1.33:1 black and white sound 1:00 minute. Courtesy: Mary Ellen Bute, Ted Nemeth.

Notes:

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

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

OCLC:

1191032147

Publisher Number:

ASP5053397/marc