Unseen cinema. 2, The devil's playground. Episode 11, The hearts of age /
THE DEVIL'S PLAYGROUND is part of the film retrospective UNSEEN CINEMA that explores long-forgotten American experimental cinema. It's nothing at all. Absolutely nothing. It was a joke. I wanted to make a parody of Jean Cocteau's first film ["The Blood of a Poet," 1930]. Tha...
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| Format: | Video |
| Language: | No linguistic content |
| Language Notes: | Silent with musical accompaniment. |
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[United States] :
Filmmakers Showcase,
1934.
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| Series: | Academic Video Online
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| Online Access: | Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press) |
| Summary: | THE DEVIL'S PLAYGROUND is part of the film retrospective UNSEEN CINEMA that explores long-forgotten American experimental cinema. It's nothing at all. Absolutely nothing. It was a joke. I wanted to make a parody of Jean Cocteau's first film ["The Blood of a Poet," 1930]. That's all. We shot it in two hours, for fun, one Sunday afternoon. It has no sort of meaning. --ORSON WELLES. Produced as a component of a live summer theatre production, no other exhibition was intended for this film. It is of interest today as the first screen appearance of Orson Welles, aged twenty, with his first wife Virginia Nicholson. --DAVID SHEPARD. His little-known first film, made seven years earlier, gives the lie to the legend. While indisputably technically crude and a bit sophomoric, "The Hearts of Age" reveals both a keen eye for composition and montage, and substantial familiarity with film art. Ultimately, "The Hearts of Age", like so many of Welles' films, is a parable of mortality... it introduces a theme that resonates throughout all of his work. --BRIAN L. FRYE. 16mm 1.37:1 black and white silent with music 8:20 minutes. New music by Donald Sosin. |
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| Item Description: | Title from resource description page (viewed June 16, 2020). "American surrealism". "Early American avant-garde film, 1893-1941". |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (9 minutes) |
| Playing Time: | 00:08:46 |
| Production Credits: | New music by Donald Sosin. |