Viva la dance the beginnings of ciné-dance

Posner, Bruce Charles, 1953- (Added Author). Shepard, David. (Added Author). Dickson, W. K.-L. (William Kennedy-Laurie), 1860-1935 (Added Author). White, James H. (James Henry) (Added Author). Heise, William. (Added Author). Armitage, F. S. (Added Author). Brick, Al. (Added Author). Simon, Stella F., 1878-1973 (Added Author). Bándy, Miklós. (Added Author). Steiner, Ralph, 1899-1986 (Added Author). Geddes, Norman Bel, 1893-1958 (Added Author). Eisenstein, Sergei, 1898-1948 (Added Author). Aleksandrov, Grigoriĭ Vasilʹevich, 1903-1984 (Added Author). Tisse, Ė. (Ėduard), 1893-1961 (Added Author). Etting, Emlen, 1905-1993 (Added Author). Van Dyke, Willard. (Added Author). Gross, Anthony, 1905-1984 (Added Author). Hoppin, Hector. (Added Author). Berkeley, Busby, 1895-1976 (Added Author). Bute, Mary Ellen. (Added Author). Nemeth, Ted, 1911-1986 (Added Author). Fischinger, Oskar, 1900-1967 (Added Author). Vorkapich, Slavko. (Added Author). McLaren, Norman, 1914-1987 (Added Author). Murphy, Dudley, 1897-1968 (Added Author). Bradley, David, 1920-1997 (Added Author). Arledge, Sara Kathryn, 1911-1998 (Added Author). Thomas A. Edison, Inc. (Added Author). American Mutoscope and Biograph Company. (Added Author). Pluragraph Co. (Added Author). Movietonews (Firm) (Added Author). Red Seal Pictures Corp. (Added Author). Federal Art Project. (Added Author). First National Pictures, Inc. (Added Author). Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. (Added Author). National Film Board of Canada. (Added Author). Visual Symphony Productions, Inc. (Added Author). Anthology Film Archives (Added Author). Eastman Kodak Company. (Added Author). British Film Institute. (Added Author). Cineric, Inc. (Added Author). Deutsches Filmmuseum Frankfurt am Main. (Added Author). Film Preservation Associates. (Added Author). George Eastman House. (Added Author). Library of Congress. (Added Author). Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (Added Author). Image Entertainment (Firm) (Added Author).

Summary: 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: videorecording (DVD)
videodisc
1 videodisc (155 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:	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.