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DVD

Inverted narratives : new directions in storytelling.

Call Number

  • DVD 791.43611 I624 (CEN)

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Publication Information

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

Physical Description

1 videodisc (155 min.) : sd. & si., b&w and col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

Early directors D.W. Griffith and Lois Weber develop the radical language of cinema narrative through audience-friendly melodramas made for nickelodeon theaters.

Notes

DVD format ; Dolby digital stereo.

Videodisc release of 20 experimental films originally produced 1910-1943.

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

Not rated.

Contents

  • The house with closed shutters (1910) / D.W. Griffith
  • Suspense (1913) / Lois Weber & Philips Smalley
  • Moonland (c. 1923-26) / Neil McGuire & William A. O'Connor
  • Lullaby (1929) / Boris Deutsch
  • The bridge (1929-30) / Charles Vidor
  • Little geezer (1932) / Theodore Huff
  • Black dawn (1933) / Josef Berne
  • "Titles"
  • "Plowing"
  • "End of day"
  • "A night to remember"
  • Native land (1937-41) / Leo Hurwitz & Paul Strand
  • "Bought and paid for"
  • "On the march"
  • "Millions of little people"
  • "Murder One man"
  • The world today: Black legion (1936-37) / Nykino
  • Even as you and I (1937) / Roger Barlow, Harry Hay & Le Roy Robbins
  • Object lesson (1941) / Christopher Young
  • "Sredni Vashtar" by Saki (1940-43) / David Bradley.

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