Viva la dance [videorecording (DVD)] : the beginnings of ciné-dance / Anthology Film Archives ; Kodak ; in association with British Film Institute-Cineric, Inc.-Deutsches Filmmuseum-Film Preservation Associates-George Eastman House-The Library of Congress-The Museum of Modern Art present ; curator, Bruce Posner ; DVD producer, David Shepard.
American experimental film has existed since the technological inception of cinema, through its adolescent rambles of 1900-1919, rising phoenix-like during the high silent era, and finally matured and spread throughout the '30's and onward. The background against which the experimentalists toiled provides a fascinating review of Americana coupled with numerous cross-currents, successes and failures, and an unfailing desire to create on film an image that can be viewed as an independent and provocative art.
Record details
- Physical Description: 1 videodisc (155 min.) : sd. & si., b&w, and col. tinted ; 4 3/4 in.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Anthology Film Archives ; 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: | Anabelle dances and dances / W. K. L. Dickson, William Heise, James White ; Edison Manufacturing Co. ; American Mutoscope and Biograph Company (1894-97) (4 min.) -- Early superimpositions: Davy Jones locker, Neptune's daughters, A nymph of the waves / Frederick S. Armitage ; American Mutascope and Biograph Co. (1900) (1 min.) -- Diana the huntress / Charles W. Allen and Francis Trevelyan Miller ; Pluragraph Co. (1916) (4 min.) -- Soul of the cypress / Dudley Murphy ; Red Seal Pictures Corp. (1920) (9 min.) -- Looney lens series: Pas de deux / Al Brick ; Fox Movietone News (1924) (4 min.) -- Hände, das leben und die liebe eines zärtlichen geschlechts-Hands: the life and loves of the gentler sex / Stella F. Simon and Miklós Bándy (1927-28) (13 min.) -- Mechanical principles / Ralph Steiner (1930) (10 min.) -- Tilly Losch in her dance of the hands / Norman Bel Geddes (1930-33) (7 min.) -- Sergei Eisenstein's Mexican footage / Sergei Eisenstein, Grigory Alexandrov, and Edmund Tisse (1931) (10 min.) -- Oramunde / Emlen Etting (1933) (10 min.) -- Hands / Willard Van Dyke and Ralph Steiner ; Works Progress Administration (1934) (4 min.) -- Joie de vivre / Anthony Gross and Hector Hoppin (1934) (11 min.) -- Wonder Bar "Don't Say Goodnight" / Busby Berkeley ; First National (1934) (10 min.) -- Dada / Mary Ellen Bute and Ted Nemeth (1936) (2 min.) -- Synchromy No. 4: Escape / Mary Ellen Bute and Ted Nemeth (1937-38) (4 min.) -- Optical poem / Oskar Fischinger ; MGM (1938) (7 min.) -- Abstract experiment in Kodachrome / Slavko Vorkapich (c. 1940s-1950s) (3 min.) -- NBC Valentine greeting / Norman McLaren ; National Film Board of Canada (1939-40) (2 min.) -- Stars and stripes / Norman McLaren (1940) (3 min.) -- Tarantella / Mary Ellen Bute, Ted Nemeth and Norman McLaren (1940) (4 min.) -- Spook sport / Mary Ellen Bute, Norman McLaren, and Ted Nemeth (1939-40) (8 min.) -- Danse macabre / Dudley Murphy ; Visual Symphony Productions, Inc. (1922) (7 min.) -- Peer Gynt: Pagan dance / David Bradley (1941) (7 min.) -- Introspection / Sara Kathryn Arledge (1941/1946) (7 min.). |
Creation/Production Credits Note: | Music, Rodney Sauer, Claude Debussy, Donald Sosin, Marc Blitzstein, Eric Beheim, Tibor Harsanyi, Al Dubin, Harry Warren, Johann Sebastian Bach, Franz Liszt, Robert Israel, John Phillip Sousa, Edwin Gerschefski, Camille Saint-Saens, Edvard Grieg, Franz Schubert. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Annabelle Whitford Moore, Crissie Sheridan, Paul Swan, Valkyrien, Chase Harringdine, Mary Binney Montgomery, Dick Powell, Dolores Del Rio, Ricardo Cortez, Adolph Bohm, Ruth Page, Olin Howland, Charlton Heston, James Mitchell, John Baxter. |
System Details Note: | DVD; Region 0 (All), NTSC; Dolby Digital stereo; original presentation aspect ratio, 1.33:1. |
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