DVD
Viva la dance : the beginnings of ciné-dance.
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 "Early superimpositions" / Frederick S. Armitage
- Davy Jones locker Neptune's daughters A nymph of the waves Diana the huntress The soul of the cypress Looney lens: Pas de deux Hände: Das Leben und die Liebe eines Zärtlichen Geschlechts (Hands: the life and loves of the gentler sex) Mechanical principles Tilly Losch in her dance of the hands Dance of the heads ; Day of the dead
- Oramunde Hands Joie de vivre Wonder bar: "Don't say goodnight" Dada Escape An optical poem Abstract experiment in Kodachrome NBC valentine greeting Stars and Stripes Tarantella Spook sport Danse macabre Peer Gynt Opening titles
- Pagan dance
- Introspection