Unseen cinema. 6, Amateur as auteur. A day in Santa Fe /
AMATEUR AS AUTEUR is part of the film retrospective UNSEEN CINEMA that explores long-forgotten American experimental cinema. Riggs's film poem conveys delight with his adopted hometown through a documentarian's eye for significant detail, a lyrical sensitivity, and homespun humor. The film...
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| Format: | Video |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | Intertitles in English. |
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[United States] :
Filmmakers Showcase,
1931.
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| Series: | Academic Video Online
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| Online Access: | Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press) |
| Summary: | AMATEUR AS AUTEUR is part of the film retrospective UNSEEN CINEMA that explores long-forgotten American experimental cinema. Riggs's film poem conveys delight with his adopted hometown through a documentarian's eye for significant detail, a lyrical sensitivity, and homespun humor. The film, too, serves as a chronicle of people and places of Santa Fe in the early 1930s, when it earned the epithet "Greenwich Village of the West." -- WILLIAM BUTLER Playwright, poet, and screenwriter Lynn Riggs wrote and directed his only film, "A Day in Santa Fe", with his younger friend and camera operator, James Hughes, scion of a prominent New Mexico family. Riggs is best known for his play "Green Grow the Lilacs", from which Rodgers and Hammerstein adapted the musical, "Oklahoma". --WILLIAM BUTLER 16mm 1.37:1 black and white silent with music 29:57 minutes. New music by Neil Kurz. |
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| Item Description: | "Discovering paradise in pictures". Title from resource description page (viewed June 29, 2020). |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (31 minutes) |
| Playing Time: | 00:30:19 |
| Production Credits: | New music: Neal Kurz. |