Unseen cinema. 7, Viva la dance. Miss Tilly Losch in her dance of the hands /
Viva La Dance is part of the film retrospective Unseen Cinema that explores long-forgotten American experimental cinema. Tilly Losch was an established dancer, choreographer, and actress who studied at the Vienna Imperial Opera ballet school. Max Reinhardt brought her to the U.S., where she enthrall...
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| Format: | Video |
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United States :
Filmmakers Showcase,
1930.
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| Series: | Academic Video Online
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| Online Access: | Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press) |
| Summary: | Viva La Dance is part of the film retrospective Unseen Cinema that explores long-forgotten American experimental cinema. Tilly Losch was an established dancer, choreographer, and actress who studied at the Vienna Imperial Opera ballet school. Max Reinhardt brought her to the U.S., where she enthralled audiences with her celebrated hand dance in musicals, ballets, and avant-garde performances. She made brief but memorable dance appearances in several Hollywood films. -- Bruce Posner Visionary stage designer, theater architect, and industrial designer Norman Bel Geddes shot hundreds of 16mm movies for research and pleasure. His amateur productions ranged from travelogues and science films to studies of humans in motion. Here Bel Geddes films Tilly Losch at the height of her Broadway career. -- Bruce Posner Norman Bel Geddes was a visionary stage designer, theater architect, and industrial designer. A pioneer in stage design and lighting, he was involved in more than one hundred plays, motion pictures, and other theatrical performances. As an industrial designer, he was identified with the popular streamline style of the 1930s. --Bruce Posner. 16mm 1.37:1 black and white silent with music 20fps 6:38 minutes. Production Nutshell Pictures Corp. |
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| Item Description: | "Early American avant-garde film 1893-1941". Title from resource description page (viewed July 24, 2020). |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (8 minutes) |
| Playing Time: | 00:07:43 |
| Production Credits: | New music, Rodney Sauer. |