Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant-Garde Film 1894-1941 [7 Discs]
Features:
- Digitally mastered from newly preserved and restored 35 mm and 16 mm prints
- New recordings of original music by George Antheil, Marc Blitzstein, and others; new film scores by Eric Beheim, Neal Kurz, Paul A. Lehrman, Guy Livingston, Rodney Sauer, Donald Sosin, and others
- Film notes and filmmaker biographies by historians and scholars Kevin Brownlow, David Curtis, Robert A. Haller, Jan-Christopher Horak, David James, Scott MacDonald, Bruce Posner, David Shepard, Paul Spehr, Cecile Starr, and 32 others
- Rare photos of the films and filmmakers
- Essay by curator Bruce Posner
View menus
- Disc #1 -- Unseen Cinema: The Mechanized Eye
- Program Start
- Film Selection
- Extra Features
- DVD-ROM Accessible Features - Insert DVD Into Your Computer's DVD-ROM Drive to Access the Following Features:
- Filmmaker Biographies and Photo Gallery
- Sponsors
- Credits
- Acknowledgements
- Film Note Authors
- Musicians
- Lenders to the Exhibition
- Disc #2 -- Unseen Cinema: The Devil's Plaything
- Program Start
- Film Selection
- Extra Features
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- Filmmaker Biographies and Photo Gallery
- Sponsors
- Credits
- Acknowledgements
- Film Note Authors
- Musicians
- Lenders to the Exhibition
- Disc #3 -- Unseen Cinema: Light Rhythms
- Program Start
- Film Selection
- Extra Features
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- Filmmaker Biographies and Photo Gallery
- Sponsors
- Credits
- Acknowledgements
- Film Note Authors
- Musicians
- Lenders to the Exhibition
- Disc #4 -- Unseen Cinema: Inverted Narratives
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- Film Selection
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- Filmmaker Biographies and Photo Gallery
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- Disc #5 -- Unseen Cinema: Picturing a Metropolis
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- Disc #6 -- Unseen Cinema: The Amateur As Auteur
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- Filmmaker Biographies and Photo Gallery
- Sponsors
- Credits
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- Film Note Authors
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- Lenders to the Exhibition
- Disc #7 -- Unseen Cinema: Viva La Dance
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- Film Selection
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- Filmmaker Biographies and Photo Gallery
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- Acknowledgements
- Film Note Authors
- Musicians
- Lenders to the Exhibition
View chapters
- Disc #1 -- Unseen Cinema: The Mechanized Eye
- 1. "Paris Exposition Films" [1:27]
- 2. Eiffel Exposition Palace [1:02]
- 3. Palace of Electricity [:49]
- 4. Champs de Mars [1:13]
- 5. Panorama of Eiffel Tower [1:21]
- 6. Scene From Elevator Ascending Eiffel Tower [1:43]
- 7. Captain Nissen Going Through Whirlpool Rapids, Niagara Falls [2:02]
- 8. Down the Hudson [2:55]
- 9. The Ghost Train [:39]
- 10. Westinghouse Works, Panorama View, Street Car Motor Room [2:28]
- 11. In Youth, Beside the Lonely Sea [5:20]
- 12. Melody on Parade [5:48]
- 13. La Cartomancienne [11:42]
- 14. Pie in the Sky [21:14]
- 15. Travel Notes [12:41]
- 16. Oil - A Symphony in Motion [7:51]
- 17. Poem 8 [19:46]
- 18. Storm [7:53]
- 19. Portrait of a Young Man [1:34]
- 20. Movement One [17:17]
- 21. Movement Two [17:28]
- 22. Movement Three [16:10]
- Disc #2 -- Unseen Cinema: The Devil's Plaything
- 1. Jack and the Beanstalk [9:34]
- 2. Dreams of a Rarebit Fiend [8:23]
- 3. The Thieving Hand [6:34]
- 4. Impossible Convicts [3:21]
- 5. When Clouds Roll by [8:52]
- 6. Beggar on Horseback [7:05]
- 7. The Fall of the House of Usher [13:08]
- 8. The Life and Death of 9413 - A Hollywood Extra [13:24]
- 9. The Love of Zero [15:05]
- 10. The Telltale Heart [24:50]
- 11. Tomatos Another Day [7:24]
- 12. The Hearts of Age [8:19]
- 13. "The Enigmatic World of Joseph Cornell" [:22]
- 14. Unreal News Reels, Nos. 1 & 2 [7:59]
- 15. The Children's Jury [9:03]
- 16. Thimble Theater [6:21]
- 17. Carousel - Animal Opera [5:49]
- 18. Jack's Dream [4:19]
- Disc #3 -- Unseen Cinema: Light Rhythms
- 1. Le Retour a la Raison [4:17]
- 2. Ballet Mecanique [17:01]
- 3. Anemic Cinema [7:05]
- 4. Looney Lens: Anamorphic People [2:21]
- 5. Out of the Melting Pot [2:21]
- 6. H2O [11:36]
- 7. Surf and Seaweed [13:00]
- 8. "Vorkapich Montage Sequence" [:13]
- 9. "The Furies" [2:52]
- 10. "Legacy of a Hollywood Extra" [:23]
- 11. "Skyline Dance" [:27]
- 12. "Money Machine" [:09]
- 13. "Prohibition" [1:35]
- 14. The Firefly "Vorkapich Edit" [1:59]
- 15. The Firefly "MGM Release Version" [1:35]
- 16. Maytime [4:42]
- 17. "Light and Abstraction" [:15]
- 18. So This is Paris [5:10]
- 19. Light Rhythms [5:37]
- 20. Nuit Sur le Mont Chauve [8:24]
- 21. Rhythm in Light [5:01]
- 22. Synchromy No. 2 [5:40]
- 23. Parabola [8:48]
- 24. Footlight Parade "By a Waterfall" [10:59]
- 25. Glens Falls Sequence [7:38]
- 26. Simple Destiny Abstaractions [1:50]
- 27. Abstract Movies [10:54]
- 28. Scherzo [1:34]
- 29. Composition No. 1: Themis [4:22]
- 30. Composition No. 2: Contrathemis [4:49]
- 31. 1941 [4:09]
- 32. Moods of the Sea [10:02]
- Disc #4 -- Unseen Cinema: Inverted Narratives
- 1. The House With Closed Shutters [17:53]
- 2. Suspense [10:32]
- 3. Moonland [11:20]
- 4. Lullaby [10:12]
- 5. The Bridge [10:03]
- 6. Little Geezer [11:38]
- 7. Black Dawn [:22]
- 8. "Titles" [1:17]
- 9. "Plowing" [10:58]
- 10. "End of Day" [8:49]
- 11. "A Night to Remember" [10:01]
- 12. Native Land [2:15]
- 13. "Bought and Paid For" [2:14]
- 14. "On the March" [1:47]
- 15. "Millions of Little People" [3:45]
- 16. "Murder One Man" [3:00]
- 17. Black Legion [5:55]
- 18. Even as You and I [11:49]
- 19. Object Lesson [9:38]
- 20. "Sredni Vashtar" [11:11]
- Disc #5 -- Unseen Cinema: Picturing a Metropolis
- 1. "Early Views" [1:07]
- 2. The Blizzard [1:56]
- 3. Lower Broadway [1:12]
- 4. Beginning of a Skyscraper [:48]
- 5. Panorama From Times Building, New York [2:05]
- 6. Skyscrapers of NYC From North River [1:58]
- 7. Panorama From the Tower of the Brooklyn Bridge [:50]
- 8. "Tricks of the Trade" [:10]
- 9. Building Up and Demolishing the Star Theatre [3:38]
- 10. Coney Island at Night [3:17]
- 11. Interior New York Subway, 14th St to 42nd Street [5:37]
- 12. Seeing New York by Yacht [3:18]
- 13. Looney Lens: Split Skyscrapers [1:31]
- 14. Looney Lens: Tenth Avenue, NYC [1:51]
- 15. Scenes From Ford Educational Weekly [:24]
- 16. 8th Avenue Elevated Train at 112th Street [:19]
- 17. The Trellis - Work of Sunshine and Shade [:16]
- 18. View of Herald Square Station [:20]
- 19. Aerial View of Sixth Ave Train at 28th, 26th, 24th [:20]
- 20. Manhatta [11:03]
- 21. 24 Dollar Island [13:13]
- 22. Skyscraper Symphony [11:16]
- 23. Manhattan Medley [10:28]
- 24. A Bronx Morning [14:26]
- 25. Footnote to Fact [8:10]
- 26. "Seeing the World," Part One: A Visit to New York, N.Y. [10:23]
- 27. The Pursuit of Happiness [8:22]
- 28. Gold Diggers of 1935 "Lullaby of Broadway" [13:35]
- 29. Autumn Fire [19:40]
- Disc #6 -- Unseen Cinema: The Amateur As Auteur
- 1. Case Sound Tests [1:16]
- 2. Theodore Case [1:14]
- 3. Man and Harmonica [:50]
- 4. Man and Harp [2:12]
- 5. Gus Visser and His Singing Duck [1:56]
- 6. Theodore Case [1:06]
- 7. Man and Ukulele [1:41]
- 8. Theodore Case [:34]
- 9. Windy Ledge Farm [16:32]
- 10. A Day in Santa Fe [30:16]
- 11. Stewart Family Home Movies [33:34]
- 12. "Joseph Cornell's Children Trilogy" [:18]
- 13. Children's Party [9:48]
- 14. Cotillion [8:57]
- 15. The Midnight Party [3:55]
- 16. Haiti [15:06]
- 17. Tree Trunk to Head [36:16]
- 18. Bicycle Polo at San Mateo [4:56]
- 19. 1126 Dewey Ave., Apt. 207 [4:02]
- Disc #7 -- Unseen Cinema: Viva La Dance
- 1. "Annabelle Dances and Dances" [1:31]
- 2. Annabelle Butterfly Dance #1 [:32]
- 3. Annabelle Butterfly Dance #3 [:11]
- 4. Serpentine Dance by Annabelle [:28]
- 5. Annabelle Serpentine Dance #1 [:18]
- 6. Annabelle Serpentine Dance #4 [:24]
- 7. Crissie Sheridan Serpentine Dance [:33]
- 8. Annabelle Serpentine Dance #4 [1:09]
- 9. Serpentine Dance [1:06]
- 10. "Early Superimpositions" [:24]
- 11. Davy Jones' Locker [:26]
- 12. Neptune's Daughter [:31]
- 13. A Nymph of the Waves [:26]
- 14. Diana the Huntress [4:33]
- 15. The Soul of the Cypress [9:24]
- 16. Looney Lens: Pas de deux [4:25]
- 17. Hande: Das Leben and Die Liebe Eines Zartlichen Geschlechts [1:01]
- 18. Part 1: Prelude [1:36]
- 19. Part 2: Der Einzelne [8:15]
- 20. Part 3: Ausgleich [2:06]
- 21. Mechanical Principles [10:37]
- 22. Tilly Losch in Her Dance of The Hands [7:01]
- 23. Sergi Eisenstein's Mexican Footage [:22]
- 24. "Dance of the Heads" [5:54]
- 25. "Day of the Dead" [3:56]
- 26. Oramunde [9:59]
- 27. Hands [4:16]
- 28. Joie de Vivre [9:18]
- 29. Wonder Bar "Don't Say Goodnight" [10:32]
- 30. Dada [1:16]
- 31. Escape [4:27]
- 32. An Optical Poem [7:08]
- 33. Abstract Experiment in Kodachrome [3:11]
- 34. NBC Valentine Greeting [1:55]
- 35. Stars and Strips [2:21]
- 36. Tarantella [4:30]
- 37. Spook Sport [7:53]
- 38. Danse Macabre [6:55]
- 39. Peer Gynt [:19]
- 40. Opening Titles [3:39]
- 41. Pagan Dance [3:18]
- 42. Introspection [6:28]
Year released: 2005
MPAA Rating: [ ]
Format: Black & White/COLOR
Length: 1140
Sound: DD2
Subtitles: Not Available
Studio: Image Entertainment