Description |
2 videodiscs (387 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in |
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 |
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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 |
Summary |
Twenty-four short films selected from the avant garde movement of the 1920's and 1930's |
Notes |
Originally produced as individual silent motion pictures in France, the Netherlands, Germany, and the United States between 1921 and 1939 |
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"Films from the Raymond Rohauer collection"--Cover |
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The film, Brumes d'automne is not listed on the container |
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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 |
Credits |
Music, Sue Harshe ... [et al.] |
Performer |
Film notes by film critic/historian Elliott Stein |
Notes |
MPAA rating: Not rated |
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Originally produced as individual silent motion pictures in France, the Netherlands, Germany, and the United States between 1921 and 1939 |
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DVD, full screen (1.33:1) presentation |
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For private home use only |
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Films are primarily silent with music and English, French, German, and Dutch credits and intertitles with optional English subtitles |
Subject |
Surrealism in motion pictures.
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Surrealism.
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Motion pictures -- France.
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Motion pictures -- Netherlands.
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Motion pictures -- Germany.
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Motion pictures -- United States.
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Genre/Form |
Short films.
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Experimental films.
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Silent films.
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Video recordings.
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Author |
Man Ray, 1890-1976.
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Vorkapich, Slavko.
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Florey, Robert, 1900-1979.
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Kirsanov, Dmitri, 1899-1957.
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Weinberg, Herman G.
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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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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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Aleksandrov, Grigoriĭ Vasilʹevich, 1903-1984.
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Vance, William.
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Welles, Orson, 1915-1985.
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Epstein, Jean, 1897-1953.
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Eisenstein, Sergei, 1898-1948.
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Metzner, Ernö, 1892-1954.
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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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Steiner, Ralph, 1899-1986.
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Rohauer (Raymond) Collection (Library of Congress)
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