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Viva la dance : the beginnings of ciné-dance.

Format Video (DVD)
Publication InfoNew York : Anthology Film Archives : Distributed exclusively by Image Entertainment, ©2005.
Description1 videodisc (155 min.) : sound & silent, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in.
Subject(s)
Other author/creatorPosner, Bruce Charles, 1953-
Other author/creatorShepard, David.
Other author/creatorHaller, Robert A.
Other author/creatorGünther, Winfried.
Other author/creatorAnthology Film Archives.
Other author/creatorImage Entertainment (Firm)
Series Unseen cinema : early American avant-garde film, 1894-1941 ; Disc 7
Unseen cinema ; Disc 7. ^A766181
Contents Annabelle dances and dances (1894-1897) / W.K.L. Dickson, William Heise & James White -- "Early superimpositions" / Frederick S. Armitage -- Davy Jones' locker (1900) / Frederick Armitage -- Neptune's daughters (1900) / Frederick Armitage -- A nymph of the waves (1900) / Frederick Armitage -- Diana the huntress (1916) / Charles Allen & Francis Trevelyan Miller (excerpt) -- The soul of the cypress (1920) / Dudley Murphy -- Looney lens: Pas de deux (1924) / Al Brick -- Hände : Das Leben und die Liebe eines Zärtlichen Geschlechts (Hands: the life and loves of the gentler sex) (1928) / Stella Simon & Miklos Bandy -- Mechanical principles (1930) / Ralph Steiner -- Tilly Losch in her dance of the hands (c. 1930-33) / Norman Bel Geddes -- Sergei Eisenstein's Mexican footage (1931) / Sergei Eisenstein (excerpts) -- Oramunde (1933) / Emlen Etting -- Hands (1934) / Ralph Steiner & Willard Van Dyke -- Joie de vivre (1934) / Anthony Gross & Hector Hoppin -- Wonder bar: "Don't say goodnight" (1934) / Busby Berkeley (excerpt) -- Dada (1936) / Mary Ellen Bute & Ted Nemeth -- Escape (1938) / Mary Ellen Bute & Ted Nemeth -- An optical poem (1938) / Oskar Fischinger -- Abstract experiment in Kodachrome (c. 1940s) / Slavko
Contents Vorkapich -- NBC valentine greeting (1939-40) / Norman McLaren -- Stars and Stripes (1940) / Norman McLaren -- Tarantella (1940) / Mary Ellen Bute, Ted Nemeth & Norman McLaren -- Spook sport (1940) / Mary Ellen Bute, Ted Nemeth & Norman McLaren -- Danse macabre (1922) / Dudley Murphy & Francis Brugière -- Peer Gynt (1941) / David Bradley, starring Charlton Heston (excerpt) -- Opening titles -- Pagan dance -- Introspection (1941/46) / Sara Kathryn Arledge.
Abstract "Dance and film have shared the aspiration to creatively sculpt motion and time"--http://www.unseen-cinema.com/.
CreditsCurated by Bruce Posner, produced for DVD by David Shepard, administered by Robert A. Haller and Winfried Günther.
Technical detailsDVD.
Genre/formDocumentary films.
Genre/formShort films.
Genre/formSilent films.
Genre/formExperimental films.
Publisher numberID0592DSDVD Image Entertainment

Available Items

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Joyner Compact DVDs PN1995.9.E96 U57 2005 DVD V. 7 ✔ Available Place Hold