| Description |
1 online resource (10 minutes) |
| Summary |
Viva La Dance is part of the film retrospective Unseen Cinema that explores long-forgotten American experimental cinema. A tone poem [in which] two woodland sprites dance about, atop power lines and among flowers and leaves, while being pursued. Everyone spends some time pulling levers to switch trains, too. Anthony Gross is best known as a printmaker and painter. The animated films he made with American Hector Hoppin reflect his distinctive graphic style, but add a sophisticated choreography of lines and space. The escapist theme of the film developed from an earlier suite of etchings called "Sortie d'Usine "(1931). --David Curtis Anthony Gross studied at Slade School of Art and Central School of Art, London, and the Académie Julian, Paris. He settled in Paris in 1926, exhibiting prints and illustrating books. Inspired by Disney, he began making animated films in the 1930s with Hector Hoppin. His filmmaking was supported by Alexander Korda until World War II. --David CurtisUsing the nom de plume "Hector" while living in Paris in the 1930s, Courtland Hoppin was an American artist, photographer and pioneer in the field of animated film. He collaborated on several animated films with print-maker and painter Anthony Gross, providing his skill as an artist and photographer as well as the capital for the projects. --Bruce Posner. 35mm 1.33:1 black and white sound 8:58 minutes. Production HG |
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Title from resource description page (viewed July 24, 2020) |
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"Early American avant-garde film 1893-1941" |
| Credits |
Music by Tibor Harsanyi |
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Animated films
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Experimental films
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Experimental films.
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Animated films.
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Films expérimentaux.
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Streaming video
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| Author |
Gross, Anthony, 1905-1984, animator
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Hoppin, Hector, animator
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