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Avant-garde experimental cinema of the 1920s and '30s /

Avant-garde experimental cinema of the 1920s and '30s / [videorecording] : Experimental cinema of the 1920s and '30s Subtitle on disc label and container: Films from the Raymond Rohauer collection - Deluxe two-disc ed. - New York, NY : Kino International : Distributed by Kino on Video, c2005. - 2 videodiscs (407 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.

Title from DVD menu. The film, Brumes d'automne is not listed on the container. All selections originally produced 1921-1947. Special features: Film notes by film critic/historian Elliott Stein [text feature], optional English subtitles (on selected films).

Le retour à la raison = The return to reason / Emak-Bakia = Leave me alone L'Étoile de mer = The starfish / Les mystères du château du Dé = The mysteries of the chateau of dice / The Life and death of 9413, a Hollywood extra / Ménilmontant / Brumes d'automne = Autumn mists / Lot in Sodom / Rhythmus 21 = Film is rhythm / Vormittagsspuk = Ghosts before breakfast / Anémic cinéma / Ballet mécanique / Symphonie diagonale = Diagonal symphony / Le vampire / The hearts of age / Man Ray Man Ray Man Ray Man Ray Robert Florey and Slavko Vorkapich Dimitri Kirsanoff Dimitri Kirsanoff James Sibley Watson and Melville Webber Hans Richter Hans Richter Marcel Duchamp Fernand Léger Viking Eggeling Jean Painlevé Orson Welles and William Vance DVD 1: (1923, France) (3 min.) -- (1926, France) (16 min.) -- (1928, France) (15 min.) -- (1929, France) (20 min.) -- (1928, U.S.) (13 min.) -- (1926, France) (37 min.) -- (1928, France) (12 min.) -- (1933, U.S.) (27 min.) -- (1921, Germany) (3 min.) -- (1928, Germany) (9 min.) -- (1926, France) (6 min.) -- (1924, France) (11 min.) -- (1924, France) (7 min.) -- (1939-45, France) (9 min.) -- (1934, U.S.) (8 min.) -- Polizeibericht : Überfall = Police Report! : Assault / La glace à trois faces = The three-sided mirror / Le tempestaire = The tempest / Romance sentimentale = Sentimental romance / Autumn fire / Manhatta / La coquille et le clergyman = The seashell and the clergyman / Regen = Rain / H²O/ Even--as you and I / Ernö Metzner Jean Epstein ; d'apres la nouvelle de Paul Morand Jean Epstein Sergei Eisenstein and Grigori V. Alexandrov Herman G. Weinberg Paul Strand and Charles Sheeler Germaine Dulac Joris Ivens and M.H.K. Franken Ralph Steiner Roger Barlow, Harry Hay, and Le Roy Robbins DVD 2: (1928, Germany) (22 min.) -- (1927, France) (41 min.) -- (1947, France) (41 min.) -- (1930, France) (21 min.) -- (1931, U.S.) (15 min.) -- (1921, U.S.) (10 min.) -- (1928, France) (31 min.) -- (1929, Netherlands) (14 min.) -- (1929, U.S.) (12 min.) -- (1937, U.S.) (12 min.).

Photography by Man Ray, Gregg [Toland], Jean de Miéville, Eduard von Borsody, [Marcel] Eywinger, [Albert] Militon, [René] Schneider, E[duard] Tisse ; music by Donald Sosin, Paul Mercer, (dp)³, Paul Devred, Louis Siegel, Sue Harshe, Larry Marotta, Jean Schwartz, Yves Baudrier, Alexis Archangelsky, Lou Lichtveld, Bruce Bennett ; sung by Louise Mazzoli. Photography by Man Ray, Gregg [Toland], Jean de Miéville, Eduard von Borsody, [Marcel] Eywinger, [Albert] Militon, [René] Schneider, E[duard] Tisse ; music by Donald Sosin, Paul Mercer, (dp)³, Paul Devred, Louis Siegel, Sue Harshe, Larry Marotta, Jean Schwartz, Yves Baudrier, Alexis Archangelsky, Lou Lichtveld, Bruce Bennett ; sung by Louise Mazzoli.

Alice (Kiki) Prin, André de la Rivière, Robert Desnos, Man Ray, J.-A. Boiffard, [Jules] Raucort, [George] Voya, Nadia Sibirskaia, Friederich Haak, Hildegarde Watson, Dorothea Haus, Lewis Whitbeck, Heinrich Gotho, Eva Schmid-Kayser, Alfred Loretto, Han Ruys, Sybille Schmitz, Rudolf Hilberg, Heinrich Falconi, Jeanne Helbling, Suzy Pierson, Olga Day, Raymond Guerin, Paul Garat, René Ferté, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Mara Griy, Erna Bergman, Willy Hildebrand.

Originally produced as individual silent motion pictures in France, the Netherlands, Germany, and the United States, these twenty-five short films epitomize the avant garde movement of the 1920's and 1930's. The films are drawn from the collection assembled by Raymond Rohauer, one of the nation's foremost proponents of experimental cinema, founder of the Hollywood Film Society, and longtime programmer at the Coronet Theatre in Los Angeles. Rohauer helped preserve and promote avant-garde cinema, and these films from his personal archive are some of the most influential and eclectic short films made during the 20th Century.


DVD, NTSC ; dual-layer RSDL, full screen (1.33:1) presentation.


Chiefly silent, with music (original or added); some films with French or English dialog or Russian singing; credits and intertitles in Dutch, English, French, and German ; optional subtitles in English (on selected films).

738329040222

K402 Kino on Video


Surrealism in motion pictures.
Dadaism in motion pictures.
Cubism in motion pictures.
Experimental films--History and criticism.

PN1995.9.E96 / A936 2005

791.43/75