Unseen cinema. "Pas de deux" / 7, Viva la dance. Looney lens series :
Viva La Dance is part of the film retrospective Unseen Cinema that explores long-forgotten American experimental cinema. An oddity to be sure, the camera original has survived intact as shot by cameraman Al Brick. Two men interact before a distorted-spherical mirror, and the ensuing play between the...
| Format: | Video |
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| Language: | No linguistic content |
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[United States] :
Filmmakers Showcase,
1924.
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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. An oddity to be sure, the camera original has survived intact as shot by cameraman Al Brick. Two men interact before a distorted-spherical mirror, and the ensuing play between the two has all the trappings of an avant-garde pas de deux. The fascination with anamorphic images dates back centuries to mirrors, lenses, and other optical toys employed to warp images for artistic and scientific purposes. These never before screened camera rolls offer a lovely interlude of pure cinema experimentation, where the Desmet color process tint-tones were added to enhance the surreal distortions. --Bruce Posner Al Brick was a longtime cameraman c. 1919-1950 for Fox News and Fox Movietone. He made the only commercial footage of the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, but this footage, heavily censored, was not presented to the public until one year later. He ended his newsreel career covering Hollywood glamour events. --Bruce Posner. 35mm 1.33:1 black and white color tint tone silent with music 16fps 4:24 minutes. Production" Fox Movietone News. |
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| Item Description: | "Early American avant-garde film 1893-1941". Title from resource description page (viewed July 24, 2020). |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (5 minutes) |
| Playing Time: | 00:04:44 |