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| Genre/Form: | Silent films Short films Film adaptations Experimental films Feature films Surrealist films |
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| Material Type: | Videorecording |
| Document Type: | Visual material |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Adolf Bolm; Ruth Page; Olin Howland; Llyn Foulkes; Dudley Murphy; Alberto Cavalcanti; Charles F Klein; James S Watson; Mary Ellen Bute; Ted Nemeth; Kent Munson; Theodore Huff; Sidney Peterson; James Broughton; Chester Kessler; Dmitri Kirsanov; Willard Maas; John Whitney, Sr.; Raymond Rohauer; John E Schmitz; Jean Cocteau; Marc'O.; Leslie Winik; Bela von Block; John J Parker; Robert H Spring; Maurice Barber; Leon Vickman; Charles A Ridley; Ben Moore; Bret Wood; Jean-Pierre Harrison; Lewis Carliner; Otto Matiesen; William Heick; Anna Halprin; Welland Lathrop; Rex Lease; Edwin Gerschefski; William O Smith; Maurice Thiriet; Ben Weber; Roger Calmel; Paul Mercer; William C Thompson, A.S.C.; George Antheil; Kenneth Patchen; Camille Saint-Saëns; Visual Symphony Productions.; Workshop 20 (Firm); California School of Fine Arts (San Francisco, Calif.); Farallone Films.; Official Films (Firm); Robair (Firm); George Eastman House. Motion Picture Dept.; Rohauer Collection.; Kino International Corporation.; Film Society.; International Film Arts Guild.; Ted Nemeth Studios.; Films Kirsanoff (Firm); Society of Cinema Arts.; Cine Art Library.; Gryphon Productions. |
| OCLC Number: | 466106893 |
| Language Note: | Silent or with music; credits, intertitles, and some dialogue in English and French; occasional subtitles in English (on selected films). |
| Notes: | Title from disc label; edition and some credits from container. "Produced for video by Bret Wood"--Container. Third film has container title: The tell-tale heart. Special features: Notes by K.A. Westphal for each film are available via the "Select a film" menu; Introduction to bonus films; Tomatos another day outtakes. |
| Credits: | Danse macabre: music, Camille Saint-SaeÌns ; animation, F.A.A. Dahme. Rien que les heures: photography, James Rogers ; music, Larry Marotta. Telltale heart: photography, Leo Shamroy ; music, Sue Harshe. Tarantella: music, Edwin Gerschefski. Four in the afternoon: music, William O. Smith. La mort du cerf: photography, Emile Houdeyer ; music, Maurice Thiriet ; English translation, Anna-Elisa and Jerome Mackowiak. Image in the snow: music, Ben Weber. The voices: music, Warren Burns. Closed vision: English adaptation and translation, Matthew Carney ; director of photography, J.G. Albicocco ; editing, J.G. Albicocco ; music, Roger Calmel. Episodes in the life of a gin bottle: music, Paul Mercer, Bruce Bennett, and Davis Petterson. Dementia: photography, William C. Thompson ; music, George Antheil. Falling pink: music, Paul Mercer and Bruce Bennett. |
| Cast: | Danse macabre: Adolph Bolm, Ruth Page, Olin Howland. Rein que les heures: Blanche Bernis, Philippe Hériat. The telltale heart: Otto Matiesen. The petrified dog: Gail Randall, Marie Hirsh, Jo Landor, Ian Zellick, Leslie Turner, Carl Austen, William Heick, Charles Mather, Hal Bronstein. The lead shoes: Jeremy Anderson, Elsa Barrett, Jack Klough. Four in the afternoon: Ann Halprin, Welland Lathrop, Charmian St. John, Don Penney. Image in the snow: Hunter Jones, Ellen McCool ; narrator, Ben Moore. Closed vision: Daniele Maurel, Robert R. Guiot, Merlin Hare ; narrator (French), Jean-Pierre Harrison ; narrator (English), Lewis Carliner. Episodes in the life of a gin bottle: Rex Lease. Falling pink: Lynn [i.e. Llyn] Foulkes. |
| Description: | 2 videodiscs (ca. 289 min.) : sd. & si., b&w and col. ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Details: | DVD; NTSC. |
| Contents: | Disc 1: Danse macabre / [presented by] Visual Symphony Productions Inc. ; conception, Adolph Bolm ; direction, Dudley Murphy (1922, U.S.) (6 min.) -- Rien que les heures = Nothing but time / Alberto Cavalcanti (1926, France) (46 min.) -- The telltale heart / [presented by] the Film Society in conjunction with the International Film Arts Guild ; [presented by] Maurice Barber ; adapted and directed by Charles F. Klein (1928, U.S.) (20 min.) -- Tomatos another day (It never happened, what may happen, and it didn't happen that night) / James Sibley Watson (1930, U.S.) (7 min.) -- Tarantella : a swift moving dance / [presented by] Ted Nemeth Studios ; Mary Ellen Bute, [Ted Nemeth] (1940, U.S.) (4 min.) -- The uncomfortable man / a film by Kent Munson and Theodore Huff (1948, U.S.) (23 min.) -- The petrified dog / [presented by] Workshop 20, California School of Fine Arts ; directed by Sidney Peterson (1948, U.S.) (18 min.) -- The lead shoes / a Workshop 20 production ; California School of Fine Arts ; directed by Sidney Peterson (1949, U.S.) (16 min.) -- Four in the afternoon / a Farallone Films production ; a film suite by James Broughton ; based on poems in his book "Musical Chairs" (1951, U.S.) (14 min.). Disc 2: The plague summer / adapted from "The journal of Albion Moonlight" by Kenneth Patchen ; [dir.] Chester Kessler (1951, U.S.) (16 min.) -- La mort du cerf = The death of a stag / réalisé par Dimitri Kirsanoff ; production des Films Kirsanoff (1951, France) (12 min.) -- Image in the snow / a film poem by Willard Maas ; a Gryphon production (1952, U.S.) (26 min.) -- Celery stalks at midnight / John Whitney (1951, U.S.) (3 min.) -- The voices / [presented by] Raymond Rohauer ; directed by John E. Schmitz ; original story and photography by John E. Schmitz (1953, U.S.) (14 min.) -- Closed vision = close vision / dialogue and screen treatment by Jean Cocteau ; directed by Marc'O ; production, the Society of Cinema Arts ; producer, Leon Vickman ; text, scenario, dialogues, Marc'O (1954, Franco-American) (65 min.). Bonus films: Episodes in the life of a gin bottle / a Cine Art Library film ; Bela von Block (ca. 1925, U.S.) (11 min.) -- Schichlegruber doing the Lambeth Walk (Lambeth Walk-- Nazi style) / [presented by] Official Films ; produced by Leslie Winik ; [dir.] Charles A. Ridley (1941, U.K.) (2 min.) -- Dementia (excerpt) / John J. Parker (1953, U.S.) (7 min.) -- Falling pink / [presented by] Robair ; produced and directed by Robert H. Spring (1956-59, U.S.) (9 min.). |
| Other Titles: | Danse macabre. Rien que les heures. Tell-tale heart. Tarantella. Tomatos another day. Uncomfortable man. Petrified dog. Four in the afternoon. Plague summer. Mort du cerf. Death of a stag. Image in the snow. Celery stalks at midnight. Voices. Closed vision. Nothing but time. Telltale heart. Lead shoes. Close vision. Episodes in the life of a gin bottle. Shichlegruber doing the Lambeth Walk. Dementia. Falling pink. Experimental cinema, 1922-1954 Avant-garde. Films from the Raymond Rohauer Collection and the George Eastman House Motion Picture Department |
Abstract:
Long before home video there flourished an alternative cinema culture on college campuses and around art theaters, where foreign film fare was often accompanied by a short subject. As reliable 16mm film equipment became available to non-professionals, artists independent of film centers began experimenting with cinema. Serious film societies sprang up in New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, holding semi-private screenings of non-commercial artistic films. For years, these pictures have been exhibited only in infrequent museum screenings, if at all. This collection is of mainly American pictures, principally one-man artistic endeavors made from little more than an artist's desire to express feelings with a camera.
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- Art, Abstract -- In motion pictures.
- Experimental films -- United States.
- Motion pictures, American -- History.
- Motion pictures -- United States -- History.
- Experimental films -- United States -- History.
- Experimental films -- France.
- Surrealism in motion pictures.
- Visual literature.
- Surrealism.
- Motion pictures -- United States.
- Motion pictures -- France.
- Videodiscs.
