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The Devil's plaything : American surrealism /

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: ID0592DSDVD | Image EntertainmentSeries: Unseen cinema ; 2.Publisher: New York, NY : distributed exclusively by Image Entertainment, [2005]Copyright date: ©2005Description: 1 videodisc (161 min.) : sound & silent, black and white and tinted ; 4 3/4 inContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9.E96 U573 2005
Contents:
Jack and the Beanstalk (1902) / Edwin S. Porter -- Dream of a Rarebit Fiend (1906) / Edwin S. Porter -- The Thieving Hand (1907 : creators unknown) -- Impossible Convicts (1905) / G.W. "Billy" Bitzer -- When the Clouds Roll By (1919) / Douglas Fairbanks & Victor Fleming -- Beggar on Horseback (1925) / James Cruze -- The Fall of the House of Usher (1926-28) / J.S. Watson, Jr. & Melville Webber -- The Life and Death of 9413 : A Hollywood Extra (1927) / Robert Florey & Slavko Vorkapich -- The Love of Zero (1928) / Robert Florey & William Cameron Menzies --
The Telltale Heart (1928) / Charles Klein -- Tomatos Another Day (1930/1933 / J.S. Watson, Jr. & Alec Wilder -- The Hearts of Age (1934) / William Vance & Orson Welles -- The enigmatic world of Joseph Cornell -- Unreal news reels, nos. 1 & 2 (c. 1926 : creators unknown) -- The Children's Jury (c. 1938 : creators unknown) -- Thimble Theater (c. 1938) / Joseph Cornell & Lawrence Jordan -- Carousel: Animal Opera (c. 1938) / Joseph Cornell & Lawrence Jordan -- Jack's Dream (c. 1938) / Joseph Cornell & Lawrence Jordan.
Production credits:
  • Administered by Robert A. Haller and Winfried Günther ; music, Eric Beheim, Robert Israel, Donald Sosin, Alec Wilder.
Summary: "Early filmmakers used bizarre sets, fantastic costumes, and magic lantern tricks to illuminate their fantasy films."--Container.
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Video Recording Carleton University, AVRC SP456 - Collections Room DVD-02830 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 16050276544

Aspect ratio 1.33:1.

Originally released between 1924 and 1942.

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.

Jack and the Beanstalk (1902) / Edwin S. Porter -- Dream of a Rarebit Fiend (1906) / Edwin S. Porter -- The Thieving Hand (1907 : creators unknown) -- Impossible Convicts (1905) / G.W. "Billy" Bitzer -- When the Clouds Roll By (1919) / Douglas Fairbanks & Victor Fleming -- Beggar on Horseback (1925) / James Cruze -- The Fall of the House of Usher (1926-28) / J.S. Watson, Jr. & Melville Webber -- The Life and Death of 9413 : A Hollywood Extra (1927) / Robert Florey & Slavko Vorkapich -- The Love of Zero (1928) / Robert Florey & William Cameron Menzies --

The Telltale Heart (1928) / Charles Klein -- Tomatos Another Day (1930/1933 / J.S. Watson, Jr. & Alec Wilder -- The Hearts of Age (1934) / William Vance & Orson Welles -- The enigmatic world of Joseph Cornell -- Unreal news reels, nos. 1 & 2 (c. 1926 : creators unknown) -- The Children's Jury (c. 1938 : creators unknown) -- Thimble Theater (c. 1938) / Joseph Cornell & Lawrence Jordan -- Carousel: Animal Opera (c. 1938) / Joseph Cornell & Lawrence Jordan -- Jack's Dream (c. 1938) / Joseph Cornell & Lawrence Jordan.

DVD - NTSC; Dolby digital stereo; Region 0.

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