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Light rhythms : music and abstraction /

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: ID0592DSDVD | Image EntertainmentSeries: Unseen cinema ; 3.Publisher: New York, NY : distributed exclusively by Image Entertainment, [2005]Copyright date: ©2005Description: 1 videodisc (168 min.) : sound & silent, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 inContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9.E96 U575 2005
Contents:
Le Retour á la raison (1923) / Man Ray -- Ballet mécanique (1923-24) / Fernand Léger & Dudley Murphy -- Anémic cinéma (1924-26) / Rrose Sélavy (Marcel Duchamp) -- Looney Lens: Anamorphic People (1927) / Al Brick -- Out of the Melting Pot (1927 : creators unknown) -- H20 (1929) / Ralph Steiner -- Surf and Seaweed (1929-30) / Ralph Steiner -- Vorkapich Montage Sequences (1928-37) / Slavko Vorkapich: The Furies (1934) -- Legacy of a Hollywood extra -- Skyline Dance (1928) -- Money Machine (1929) -- Prohibition (1929) -- The Firefly (Vorkapich edit) (1937) -- The Firefly (MGM release version) (1937) --
Maytime (1937) -- Light and abstraction -- So This Is Paris (1926) / Ernst Lubitsch (excerpt) -- Light Rhythms (1930) / Francis Bruguiére -- Une nuit sur le Mont Chauve (Night on Bald Mountain) (1934) / Alexandre Alexeieff & Claire Parker -- Rhythm in Light (1934) / Mary Ellen Bute, Ted Nemeth & Melville Webber -- Synchromy No. 2 (1936) / Mary Ellen Bute & Ted Nemeth -- Parabola (1937) / Rutherford Boyd, Mary Ellen Bute & Ted Nemeth -- Footlight Parade "By a Waterfall" (1933) / Busby Berkeley -- Glens Falls Sequence (1937-46) / Douglass Crockwell -- Simple Destiny Abstractions (1937-40) / Douglass Crockwell -- Abstract Movies (1937-47) / George L.K. Morris -- Scherzo (1939) / Norman McLaren -- Composition no. 1: Themis (1940) / Dwinell Grant -- Composition no. 2: Contrathemis (1941) / Dwinell Grant -- 1941 (1941) / Francis Lee -- Moods of the Sea (1941) / Slavko Vorkapich & John Hoffman.
Production credits:
  • Administered by Robert A. Haller and Winfried Günther ; music, George Antheil ... [et al.]
Summary: "The rhythmic elements of cinema are explored by artists and filmmakers fascinated by the abstract qualities of light"--Container.
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Video Recording Carleton University, AVRC SP456 - Collections Room DVD-02831 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 16050276552

Aspect ratio 1.33:1.

Originally released between 1923 and 1946.

Special features: New recordings of original music by George Antheil, Marc Blitzstein and others; new film scores by Eric Beheim, Neal Kurz, Paul A. Lehrman, Guy Livingston, Rodney Sauer, Donald Sosin and others; film notes and filmmaker biographies by historians and scholars Kevin Brownlow, David Curtis, Robert A. Haller, Jan-Christopher Horak, David James, Scott MacDonald, Bruce Posner, David Shepard, Paul Spehr, Cecile Starr and 32 others; rare photos of the films and filmmakers; essay by curator Bruce Posner.

Le Retour á la raison (1923) / Man Ray -- Ballet mécanique (1923-24) / Fernand Léger & Dudley Murphy -- Anémic cinéma (1924-26) / Rrose Sélavy (Marcel Duchamp) -- Looney Lens: Anamorphic People (1927) / Al Brick -- Out of the Melting Pot (1927 : creators unknown) -- H20 (1929) / Ralph Steiner -- Surf and Seaweed (1929-30) / Ralph Steiner -- Vorkapich Montage Sequences (1928-37) / Slavko Vorkapich: The Furies (1934) -- Legacy of a Hollywood extra -- Skyline Dance (1928) -- Money Machine (1929) -- Prohibition (1929) -- The Firefly (Vorkapich edit) (1937) -- The Firefly (MGM release version) (1937) --

Maytime (1937) -- Light and abstraction -- So This Is Paris (1926) / Ernst Lubitsch (excerpt) -- Light Rhythms (1930) / Francis Bruguiére -- Une nuit sur le Mont Chauve (Night on Bald Mountain) (1934) / Alexandre Alexeieff & Claire Parker -- Rhythm in Light (1934) / Mary Ellen Bute, Ted Nemeth & Melville Webber -- Synchromy No. 2 (1936) / Mary Ellen Bute & Ted Nemeth -- Parabola (1937) / Rutherford Boyd, Mary Ellen Bute & Ted Nemeth -- Footlight Parade "By a Waterfall" (1933) / Busby Berkeley -- Glens Falls Sequence (1937-46) / Douglass Crockwell -- Simple Destiny Abstractions (1937-40) / Douglass Crockwell -- Abstract Movies (1937-47) / George L.K. Morris -- Scherzo (1939) / Norman McLaren -- Composition no. 1: Themis (1940) / Dwinell Grant -- Composition no. 2: Contrathemis (1941) / Dwinell Grant -- 1941 (1941) / Francis Lee -- Moods of the Sea (1941) / Slavko Vorkapich & John Hoffman.

DVD - NTSC; Dolby digital stereo; Region 0.

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