| Description |
1 online resource (31 minutes) |
| Summary |
AMATEUR AS AUTEUR is part of the film retrospective UNSEEN CINEMA that explores long-forgotten American experimental cinema. Riggs's film poem conveys delight with his adopted hometown through a documentarian's eye for significant detail, a lyrical sensitivity, and homespun humor. The film, too, serves as a chronicle of people and places of Santa Fe in the early 1930s, when it earned the epithet "Greenwich Village of the West." -- WILLIAM BUTLER Playwright, poet, and screenwriter Lynn Riggs wrote and directed his only film, "A Day in Santa Fe", with his younger friend and camera operator, James Hughes, scion of a prominent New Mexico family. Riggs is best known for his play "Green Grow the Lilacs", from which Rodgers and Hammerstein adapted the musical, "Oklahoma". --WILLIAM BUTLER 16mm 1.37:1 black and white silent with music 29:57 minutes. New music by Neil Kurz |
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"Discovering paradise in pictures" |
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Title from resource description page (viewed June 29, 2020) |
| Credits |
New music: Neal Kurz |
| Notes |
Intertitles in English |
| Subject |
Experimental films -- United States
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Motion pictures -- United States.
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Experimental films
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Motion pictures
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Santa Fe (N.M.) -- In motion pictures
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New Mexico -- Santa Fe
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United States
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Feature films.
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Experimental films
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Short films
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Silent films
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Experimental films.
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Short films.
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Silent films.
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Feature films.
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Films expérimentaux.
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Courts métrages.
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Films muets.
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Streaming video
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| Author |
Riggs, Lynn, 1899-1954, director.
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Hughes, James (Camera operator), director
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