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Avant-garde : experimental cinema of the 1920s and '30s / Kino International ; producer/designer, Bret Wood.
Format
Video/Projected medium
Language
English
French
German
Dutch
Russian
Εdition
Deluxe two-disc edition.
Published/Created
New York, NY : Kino International, [2005]
©2005
Description
2 videodiscs (407 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Availability
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Status
Location Service
Notes
ReCAP - Remote Storage: Video Collection
DVD 1096
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Details
Subject(s)
Surrealism in motion pictures
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Dadaism in motion pictures
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Cubism in motion pictures
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Experimental films
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History and criticism
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Related name
Rohauer Collection
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Rohauer, Raymond
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Production company
Kino International Corporation
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Film producer
Wood, Bret
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Man Ray, 1890-1976
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Kirsanov, Dmitri, 1899-1957
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Watson, James S. (James Sibley), 1894-1982
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Webber, Melville
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Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968
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Léger, Fernand, 1881-1955
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Eggeling, Viking, 1880-1925
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Painlevé, Jean
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Welles, Orson, 1915-1985
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Vance, William
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Metzner, Ernö, 1892-1954
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Epstein, Jean, 1897-1953
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Weinberg, Herman G.
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Designer
Wood, Bret
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Writer of added commentary
Stein, Elliott, 1928-
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Film director
Man Ray, 1890-1976
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Florey, Robert, 1900-1979
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Vorkapich, Slavko
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Kirsanov, Dmitri, 1899-1957
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Watson, James S. (James Sibley), 1894-1982
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Webber, Melville
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Richter, Hans, 1888-1976
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Metzner, Ernö, 1892-1954
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Epstein, Jean, 1897-1953
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Aleksandrov, Grigoriĭ Vasilʹevich, 1903-1984
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Eisenstein, Sergei, 1898-1948
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Weinberg, Herman G.
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Strand, Paul, 1890-1976
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Sheeler, Charles, 1883-1965
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Dulac, Germaine, 1882-1942
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Ivens, Joris, 1898-1989
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Franken, Mannus
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Steiner, Ralph, 1899-1986
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Barlow, Roger
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Hay, Harry
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Robbins, LeRoy, 1904-1987
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Editor of moving image work
Man Ray, 1890-1976
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Kirsanov, Dmitri, 1899-1957
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Weinberg, Herman G.
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Ivens, Joris, 1898-1989
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Screenwriter
Man Ray, 1890-1976
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Kirsanov, Dmitri, 1899-1957
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Metzner, Ernö, 1892-1954
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Epstein, Jean, 1897-1953
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Aleksandrov, Grigoriĭ Vasilʹevich, 1903-1984
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Eisenstein, Sergei, 1898-1948
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Photographer
Man Ray, 1890-1976
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Watson, James S. (James Sibley), 1894-1982
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Weinberg, Herman G.
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Strand, Paul, 1890-1976
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Sheeler, Charles, 1883-1965
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Ivens, Joris, 1898-1989
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Steiner, Ralph, 1899-1986
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Author
Morand, Paul, 1888-1976
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Actor
Kiki, 1901-1953
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Rivière, André de la
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Desnos, Robert, 1900-1945
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Auric, Georges, 1899-1983
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Beaumont, comte de
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Library of Congress genre(s)
Experimental films
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Silent films
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Feature films
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Short films
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Medium/Support
plastic rdamat http://rdaregistry.info/termList/RDAMaterial/1029
4 3/4 in.
Summary note
Twenty-four short films selected from the avant garde movement of the 1920's and 1930's.
Notes
Title from container.
With musical accompaniment.
Originally produced individually as silent motion pictures from 1921-1947.
Films from France, the Netherlands, Germany, and the United States.
"Films from the Raymond Rohauer collection"--Cover.
Special features include film notes by film critic/historian Elliot Stein, optional English subtitles (on selected films), dual-layer RSDL edition for optimal image quality.
Creation/Production credits
Photography by Man Ray, Gregg [Toland], Jean de Miéville, Eduard von Borsody, [Marcel] Eywinger, [Albert] Militon, [René] Schneider, E[duard] Tisse ; music by Donald Sosin, Paul Mercer, (dp)³, Paul Devred, Louis Siegel, Sue Harshe, Larry Marotta, Jean Schwartz, Yves Baudrier, Alexis Archangelsky, Lou Lichtveld, Bruce Bennett ; sung by Louise Mazzoli.
Target audience
MPAA rating: Not rated.
System details
DVD; dual-layer RSDL, full screen (1.33:1) presentation.
Participant(s)/Performer(s)
Alice (Kiki) Prin, André de la Rivière, Robert Desnos, Georges Auric, Le Comte de Beaumont, Le Vicomte de Noailles, Marie-Laure de Noailles, Man Ray, J.-A. Boiffard, [Jules] Raucort, [George] Voya, Nadia Sibirskaia, Friederich Haak, Hildegarde Watson, Dorothea Haus, Lewis Whitbeck, Heinrich Gotho, Eva Schmid-Kayser, Alfred Loretto, Han Ruys, Sybille Schmitz, Rudolf Hilberg, Heinrich Falconi, Jeanne Helbling, Suzy Pierson, Olga Day, Raymond Guerin, Paul Garat, René Ferté, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Mara Griy, Erna Bergman, Willy Hildebrand.
Contents
Disc 1: Le retour à la raison (1923, France) / Man Ray
Emak-Bakia (1926, France) / Man Ray
L'Étoile de mer (1928, France) / May Ray
Les mystères du château du Dé (1929, France) / Man Ray
The life and death of 9413, a Hollywood extra (1928, United States) / Slavko Vorkapich and Robert Florey
Ménilmontant (1926, France) / Dimitri Kirsanoff
Brumes d'automne = Autumn fire (1931, United States) / Herman G. Weinberg
Lot in Sodom (1933, United States) / James Sibley Watson and Melville Webber
Rhythmus 21 (1921, Germany) / Hans Richter
Vormittagsspuk = ghosts before breakfast (1928, Germany) / Hans Richter
Anémic cinéma (1926, France) / Marcel Duchamp
Ballet mécanique (1924, France) / Fernand Léger
Symphonie diagonale (1924, France) / Viking Eggeling
Le vampire (1939, France) / Jean Painlevé
The hearts of age (1934, United States) / Orson Welles and William Vance. Disc 2: Überfall (1928, Germany) / Ernö Metzner
La glace à trois faces (1927, France) / Jean Epstein
Le tempestaire (1947, France) / Jean Epstein
Romance sentimentale (1930, France) / Sergei Eisenstein and Grigori V. Alexandrov
Autumn fire (1931, United States) / Herman G. Weinberg
Manhatta (1921, United States) / Paul Strand and Charles Sheeler
La coquille et le clergyman (1926, France) / Germaine Dulac
Regen = Rain (1929, Netherlands) / Joris Ivens
H2O (1929, United States) / Ralph Steiner
Even
as you and I (1937, United States) / Roger Barlow, Harry Hay, and LeRoy Robbins.
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Other title(s)
Experimental cinema of the 1920s and '30s
Publisher no.
K402
OCLC
61231446
Universal Product Code
738329040222
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