Unseen cinema. 3, Light rhythms. Skyline dance, Slavko Vorkapich montage sequences (1928-1950s) [9-film compilation] /
LIGHT RHYTHMS is part of the film retrospective UNSEEN CINEMA that explores long-forgotten American experimental cinema. Awe-inspired by D.W. Griffith, Douglas Fairbanks, and Charlie Chaplin, Serbian émigré Slavko Vorkapich landed in Hollywood and proceeded to create a stellar montage-editing style...
| Format: | Video |
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| Language: | No linguistic content |
| Language Notes: | Silent with music. |
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United States :
Filmmakers Showcase,
1928.
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| Series: | Academic Video Online
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| Online Access: | Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press) |
| Summary: | LIGHT RHYTHMS is part of the film retrospective UNSEEN CINEMA that explores long-forgotten American experimental cinema. Awe-inspired by D.W. Griffith, Douglas Fairbanks, and Charlie Chaplin, Serbian émigré Slavko Vorkapich landed in Hollywood and proceeded to create a stellar montage-editing style that relied upon hyper-kinetic visual stimulation. Following the outrageous success of "The Life and Death of 9413-A Hollywood Extra" (1927), made in collaboration with Robert Florey, Vorkapich worked at big studios on montage sequences. Lucky for film history Vorkapich kept personal copies of his experiments, and Vorkapich's version will be shown silent and with sound. His editing style, knowm in the industry as a "Vorkapich," compress time and space while conveying maximum narrative content. Designed, shot and edited by Vorkapich, the inspired sequences illuminate his influential "innocence of the eye" theory of kinesthetic perception. --BRUCE POSNER Serbian-born artist, he settled 1925 in Santa Barbara as a portrait painter and by 1928, inspired by director Rex Ingram, entered Hollywood studios as a "montage" specialist. His name eventually became a noun describing the sequences for which he was famous. In later years, he made Pepsi commercials and lectured on principles of film art. --DAVID SHEPARD SLAVKO VORKAPICH MONTAGE SEQUENCES (1928-1950) - 9 FILM COMPILATION42 00:00 SKYLINE DANCE (1928, 29 seconds)43 01:30 MONEY MACHINE (1929, 7 seconds)44 01:37 PROHIBITION (1928, 1:32 minutes)45 03:09 TOTAL WARFARE (1934, 1:59 minutes) SILENT46 05:08 THE FURIES (1934, 2:50 minutes)47 07:58 BATTLE OF VITORIA (1937, 1:52 minutes) SILENT48 09:50 DORA (1935, 1:41 minutes) SILENT49 11:31 LIBERTY (1939, 3:30 minutes)50 15:01 ABSTRACT EXPERIMENT IN KODACHROME (c.1940-50s, 2:54 minutes) 35mm 1.37:1 black and white silent with music 17:55 minutes. Courtesy: Filmmakers Showcase, Jugoslovenska Kinoteka. |
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| Item Description: | "Music and abstraction". Title from resource description page (viewed June 29, 2020). |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (18 minutes) |
| Playing Time: | 00:17:56 |