Unseen cinema. Filming the fantastic! (1936) ; New newsreel -- the children's jury (c. 1938) / 2, The devil's playground. Episode 12, The enigmatic cinema of Joseph Cornell. Part I, Out of the melting pot (1927) ;
THE DEVIL'S PLAYGROUND is part of the film retrospective UNSEEN CINEMA that explores long-forgotten American experimental cinema. Many early short subjects cloaked genuine aesthetic discourse inside novelty approaches, such as the exploration of slow, fast, or reverse motion, distortion and abs...
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| Format: | Video |
| Language: | No linguistic content |
| Language Notes: | Silent with musical accompaniment. |
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Filmmakers Showcase,
1927.
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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. Many early short subjects cloaked genuine aesthetic discourse inside novelty approaches, such as the exploration of slow, fast, or reverse motion, distortion and abstraction, and other altered perceptions induced via camera tricks. The transitions of zoo animals from abstract to realistic renditions highlight the differences between the two states. --BRUCE POSNER. The eclectic composer Alec Wilder hailed from Rochester and wrote hundreds of compositions of American jazz and popular songs and European classical music. Fans included Frank Sinatra and Rochester's J.S. Watson, Jr. As a gift, he wrote "Tomatos Another Day" (1930), a series of verbal-visual "bad puns," for Watson to film. --BRUCE POSNER ENIGMATIC CINEMA OF JOSEPH CORNELL, PT 1 (1928-1938) - 3 FILM COMPILATION33 00:00 OUT OF THE MELTING POT (1928, 1:56 minutes)34 02:42 ; ADVENTURES OF THE NEWSREEL CAMERAMAN - FILMING THE FANTASTIC! (1936, 9:42 minutes)35 12:24 ; THE CHILDREN'S JURY - NEW NEWSREEL (c. 1938, 8:31 minutes).Amateur film enthusiast and collage artist Joseph Cornell made homespun cinema creations outside the limelight of commercial cinema production and distribution. In fact, he never handled a movie camera to shoot his own material opting to make use of "found footage" culled from early pioneer trick films, silent feature films, newsreels, travelogues, nature studies, and industrials among numerous others. --BRUCE POSNER. 16mm from 35mm 1:37:1 black and white color tint silent with music 1:56 minutes. Production: W.J. Ganz Studio. |
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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 (22 minutes) |
| Playing Time: | 00:21:15 |
| Production Credits: | New music by Eric Beheim. |