The Devil's plaything American surrealism
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Physical Description:
videorecording (DVD)
videodisc
1 videodisc (161 min.) : sd. & si., b&w and col. tinted ; 4 3/4 in. - Publisher: New York, NY : Anthology Film Archives ; Chatsworth, CA : Distributed by Image Entertainment, c2005.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Special features: [PDF files require a DVD-ROM drive and Adobe Acrobat]; Filmmaker biographies and photo gallery; Acknowledgments; Sponsors; Film note authors; Musicians; Credits; Essay "Where the Buffalo Roamed...Relative Histories of an Early American Avant-Garde Film" by film historian Bruce Posner, in accompanying booklet (v.1). |
Formatted Contents Note: | Jack and the beanstalk / Edwin S. Porter ; Edison Manufacturing Co. (1902) (9 min.) -- Dream of a rarebit fiend / Edwin S. Porter ; Edison Manufacturing Co. (1906) (10 min.) -- Thieving hand / Vitagraph Company of America (1908) (6 min.) -- Impossible convicts / G. W. "Billy" Bitzer ; American Mutascope and Biograph Co. (1905) (3 min.) -- When the clouds roll by (Food-induced nightmare) / Victor Fleming ; (1919) (8 min.) -- Beggar on horseback (Dream fantasy wedding) / James Cruze ; Paramount Pictures (1925) (7 min.) -- Fall of the house of Usher / Melville Webber and J. S. Watson Jr. (1926-28) (13 min.) -- Life and death of 9413: a Hollywood extra / Robert Florey and Slavko Vorkapich (1927) (13 min.) -- Love of zero / Robert Florey and William Cameron Menzies (1928) (15 min.) -- Telltale heart / Charles F. Klein (1928) (24 min.) -- Tomato is another day / J. S. Watson Jr. and Alec Wilder (1930/33) (7 min.) -- Hearts of age / William Vance and Orson Welles (1934) (8 min.) -- Enigmatic cinema of Joseph Cornell Unreal news reel No. 2 / Joseph Cornell (1926-28) (6 min.) -- Children's jury / Joseph Cornell (1938) (9 min.) -- Thimble theater / Joseph Cornell, completed by Lawrence Jordan ; (1930s-1970) (6 min.) -- Carousel: Animal opera / Joseph Cornell, completed by Lawrence Jordan ; (1930s-1970) (6 min.) -- Jack's dream / Joseph Cornell, completed by Lawrence Jordan ; (1930-1970) (4 min.). |
Creation/Production Credits Note: | Music, Donald Sosin, Eric Beheim, Alec Wilder, Robert Israel, Erik Satie. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Douglas Fairbanks, Herbert Stern, Hidegarde Watson, Melville Webber, Joseph Mari, Tamara Shavrova, Anielka Elter, Otto Mateisen, Virginia Nicholson, Orson Welles. |
System Details Note: | DVD; Region 0 (All), NTSC; Dolby Digital stereo; original presentation aspect ratio, 1.33:1. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Holdable? | Status | Due Date | Courses |
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Lansdowne Library | PN 1997 A1 U58 2005 V.2 (Text) | 26040003065451 | Media | Volume hold | Available | - |