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DVD

Viva la dance : the beginnings of ciné-dance.

Call Number

  • DVD 791.43611 V855 (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

Dance and film have shared the aspiration to creatively sculpt motion and time.

Notes

DVD format ; Dolby digital stereo.

Videodisc release of 42 experimental films originally produced 1894-1950's.

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

Not rated.

Contents

  • Annabelle dances and dances (1894-1897) / W.K.L. Dickson, William Heise & James White
  • "Early superimpositions" / Frederick S. Armitage
  • Davy Jones locker (1900)
  • Neptune's daughters (1900)
  • A nymph of the waves (1900)
  • 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) (1927-28) / Stella Simon & Miklos Bándy
  • Mechanical principles (1930) / Ralph Steiner
  • Tilly Losch in her dance of the hands (c. 1930-33) / Norman Bel Geddes --tSergei Eisenstein's Mexican footage (1931) / Sergei Eisenstein, Grigory Alexandrov & Edward Tissé (excerpts): Dance of the heads ; Day of the dead
  • 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. 1940-50s) / Slavko 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 Bruguière
  • Peer Gynt (1941) / David Bradley (excerpt)
  • Opening titles
  • Pagan dance
  • Introspection (1941/46) / Sara Kathryn Arledge.

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