Unseen cinema : early American avant-garde film, 1894-1941 /
This seven-disc collection offers 155 avant-garde films from 1894 to 1941.
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| Format: | Video DVD |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Anthology Film Archives ;
[2005]
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| Series: | Blackhawk Films collection.
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| Summary: | This seven-disc collection offers 155 avant-garde films from 1894 to 1941. |
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| Item Description: | Title from container. Originally released as separate motion pictures, 1894-1941. Dual-layer format. Aspect ratio 1.33:1. Digitally mastered from newly preserved and restored 35mm and 16mm prints. Accompanying booklet contains an essay by curator Bruce Posner. Parts of the essay originally published as "Les grands espaces" in En marge de Hollywood : la première avant-garde cinématographique américaine 1893-1941 / Jean-Michel Bouhours, Bruce Posner, Isabella Ribadeau Dumaf, eds. Paris : Èditions du Centre Pompidou, 2003. pp. 174-189. Special features: 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. Videorecording. |
| Physical Description: | 7 videodiscs (1140 min.) : sound, black and white, tinted, and color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([16] pages ; 19 cm.). |
| Format: | DVD; Dolby digital, stereo. |
| Audience: | Not rated. |