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DVD

The mechanized eye : experiments in technique and form.

Call Number

  • DVD 791.43611 M4868 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Chatsworth, CA : Distributed exclusively by Image Entertainment, c2005.

Physical Description

1 videodisc (161 min.) : sd. & si., b&w and col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

The dynamic qualities of motion pictures are explored by cameramen and filmmakers through novel experiments in technique and form.

Notes

DVD format ; Dolby digital stereo.

Videodisc release of 22 experimental films originally produced 1900-1943.

Digitally mastered from newly preserved and restored 35mm and 16mm prints.

Not rated.

Contents

  • Paris Exposition films (1900) / James White: Eiffel Tower from Trocadero Palace (1900) ; Palace of Electricity (1900) ; Champs de Mars (1900) ; Panorama of Eiffel Tower (1900) ; Scene from elevator ascending Eiffel Tower (1900)
  • Captain Nissen going through Whirlpool Rapids, Niagara Falls (1901)
  • Down the Hudson (1903) / Frederick Armitage & A.E. Weed
  • The ghost train (1903)
  • Westinghouse Works, panorama view street car motor room (1904) / G.W. "Billy" Bitzer
  • In youth, beside the lonely sea (c. 1924-25)
  • Melody on parade (c. 1936)
  • La cartomancienne (The fortune teller) (1932) / Jerome Hill
  • Pie in the sky (1934-35) / Nykino
  • Travel notes (1932) / Walker Evans
  • Oil: a symphony in motion (1933) / Artkino
  • Poem 8 (1932-33) / Emlen Etting
  • Storm (1942-43) / Paul Burnford
  • Portrait of a young man (1925-31) / Henwar Rodakiewicz
  • Movement one
  • Movement two
  • Movement three.

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