Unseen cinema. a swift moving dance / 7, Viva la dance. Tarantella :
Viva La Dance is part of the film retrospective Unseen Cinema that explores long-forgotten American experimental cinema. Color freed Bute's talent - where before she had been constrained by a quasi-scientific conception of the parallels between musical and visual dynamics. In Tarantella, she ta...
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| Format: | Video |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | Intertitles in English. |
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United States :
Filmmakers Showcase,
1940.
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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. Color freed Bute's talent - where before she had been constrained by a quasi-scientific conception of the parallels between musical and visual dynamics. In Tarantella, she takes a more intuitive approach linked closer to Kandinsky, making it among Bute's most avant-garde productions. The animation used drawings illuminated in various wondrous ways. --R. Bruce Elder. 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. By 1940, Mary Ellen Bute's abstractions were shown at select theaters nationwide. Her "seeing-sound" film, co-animated with Norman McLaren, demonstrates an ability to visualize music in a tradition sympathetic to modernist painting. Squiggling lines, expanding and contracting circles, and dynamic color fields frame Bute as a "designer of kinetic abstractions." --Bruce Posner. 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 4:24 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". |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (6 minutes) |
| Playing Time: | 00:05:17 |
| Production Credits: | Music, Edwin Gerschefski. |