Unseen cinema. a graveyard gambol / 7, Viva la dance. Mary Ellen Bute's Spook sport :
Viva La Dance is part of the film retrospective Unseen Cinema that explores long-forgotten American experimental cinema. Animated by McLaren, utilizing his adroit ink-on-film technique, Bute's film visualizes Saint Säen's music. It features colored globes, ellipses, and triangles that move...
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| Format: | Video |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | Intertitles in English. |
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United States :
Filmmakers Showcase,
1939.
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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. Animated by McLaren, utilizing his adroit ink-on-film technique, Bute's film visualizes Saint Säen's music. It features colored globes, ellipses, and triangles that move ghost-like over monochromatic backgrounds, communicating the notion of spirits rising from a graveyard. Commercially Bute's most successful animation, it ran for months at Radio City Music Hall. --Jan-Christopher Horak. Infatuated with the new non-objective paintings of Kandinsky and others, Texas debutante Mary Ellen Bute devoted twenty years (1932-1952) to creating thirteen abstract motion pictures in black-and-white and color, with familiar classical music accompaniments. Many were shown at New York's Radio City Music Hall. -- Cecile Starr. At the outbreak of World War II, Norman McLaren left London for New York, where he remained over a year before joining the National Film Board of Canada and becoming a world leader in experimental animation. Almost destitute in New York, McLaren worked briefly for the Guggenheim Museum and for animator Mary Ellen Bute. --Cecile Starr. Before producing and filming Bute's short abstract films (1931-1953), Ted Nemeth learned his craft creating special effects for feature film "trailers." As head of his own New York studio, founded in 1940 (the year Bute and he were married), he made documentaries, commercials, and short subjects, two of which were Academy Award nominees. --Aram Boyajian. 35mm 1.37:1 color sound 7:35 minutes. Production: Ted Nemeth Studios. |
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| Item Description: | Title from resource description page (viewed July 24, 2020). "Early American avant-garde film 1893-1941". "Film-ballet". |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (9 minutes) |
| Playing Time: | 00:08:35 |
| Production Credits: | Music, Camille Saint-Saëns. |