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DVD

The amateur as auteur : discovering paradise in pictures.

Call Number

  • DVD 791.43611 A487 (CEN)

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Publication Information

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

Physical Description

1 videodisc (175 min.) : sd. & si., b&w and col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

These home-made films incorporate avant-garde strategies and techniques to achieve a true sense of cinematic intimacy.

Notes

DVD format ; Dolby digital stereo.

Videodisc release of 19 experimental films originally produced 1924-1942.

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

Not rated.

Contents

  • Case sound tests (c. 1924-25) / Theodore Case & Earl Sponable: Theodore Case ; Man and harmonica ; Man and harp ; Gus Visser and his singing duck ; Theodore Case ; Man and ukulele ; Theodore Case
  • Windy Ledge Farm (c. 1929-34) / Elizabeth Woodman Wright
  • A day in Santa Fe (1931) / Lynn Riggs & James Hughes
  • Stewart family home movies (c. 1935-39) / Archie Stewart
  • "Joseph Cornell's children trilogy": Children's party (c. 1938) / Joseph Cornell & Lawrence Jordan ; Cotillion (c. 1938) / Joseph Cornell & Lawrence Jordan ; The midnight party (c. 1938) / Joseph Cornell & Lawrence Jordan
  • Haiti (1938) / Rudy Burckhardt
  • Tree trunk to head (1938) / Lewis Jacobs
  • Bicycle polo at San Mateo (1940-42) / Frank Stauffacher
  • 1126 Dewey Avenue, Apt. 207 (1939) / John C. Hecker.

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