Unseen cinema. 3, Light rhythms : music and abstraction / Anthology Film Archives ; Kodak ; in association with British Film Institute-Cineric, Inc.-Deutsches Filmmuseum-Film Preservation Associates-George Eastman House-The Library of Congress-The Museum of Modern Art present ; curator, Bruce Posner ; DVD producer, David Shepard.
American experimental film has existed since the technological inception of cinema, through its adolescent rambles of 1900-1919, rising phoenix-like during the high silent era, and finally matured and spread throughout the '30's and onward. The background against which the experimentalists toiled p...
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New York, NY : Chatsworth, CA :
Anthology Film Archives ; Distributed by Image Entertainment,
[2005], ©2005.
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| Physical Description: | 1 videodisc (168 min.) : sound & silent, black and white, color tinted, and color ; 4 3/4 in. |
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Light rhythms : music and abstraction.
Music and abstraction. |
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Contents:
- Retour à la raison-Return to reason / Man Ray (1923) (3 min.)
- Ballet mécanique / Fernand Léger and Dudley Murphy (1923-24) (16 min.)
- Anémic cinéma / Rrose Sélavy also known as Marcel Duchamp (1924-26) (7 min.)
- Looney lens series: Anamorphic people / Al Brick ; Fox News (1927) (2 min.)
- Out of the melting pot / W. J. Ganz Studio (1928) (3 min.)
- H2O / Ralph Steiner (1929) (13 min.)
- Surf and seaweed / Ralph Steiner (1929-30) (13 min.)
- Vorkapich montage sequences 1928-37 Furies / Slavko Vorkapich (1934) (3 min.)
- Legacy of a Hollywood extra / Slavko Vorkapich (1928-29) (3 min.)
- Firefly: Battle of Vitoria / Slavko Vorkapich and MGM versions (1937) (3 min.)
- Maytime: Opera singer's romance/career / Slavko Vorkapich (1937) (4 min.)
- So this is Paris: Artist's ball / Ernst Lubitsch (1926) (4 min.)
- Light rhythms / Francis Bruguière and Oswell Blakeston (1929-30) (5 min.)
- Une nuit sur le Mont Chauve-Night on Bald Mountain / Alexander Alexeieff and Claire Parker (1933) (8 min.)
- Rhythm in light / Melville Webber, Mary Ellen Bute, and Theodore Nemeth (1934) (5 min.)
- Synchromy no. 2 / Mary Ellen Bute and Theodore Nemeth (1936) (6 min.)
- Parabola / Rutherford Boyd, Mary Ellen Bute, and Theodore Nemeth (1936-38) (9 min.)
- Footlight Parade by a waterfall / Busby Berkeley ; Warner Brothers (1933) (10 min.)
- Glens Falls sequence / Douglass Crockwell (1937-46) (7 min.)
- Simple destiny abstractions / Douglass Crockwell (1937-40) (90 sec.)
- Abstract movies / George L. K. Morris (1939-47) (10 min.)
- Scherzo / Norman McLaren (1939) (1 min.)
- Composition #1: Themis / Dwinell Grant (1940) (4 min.)
- Composition #2: Contrathemis / Dwinell Grant (1941) (4 min.)
- 1941 / Francis Lee (1941) (4 min.)
- Moods of the sea / Slavko Vorkapich and John Hoffman (1941) (10 min.)