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The mechanized eye : experiments in technique and form /

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: ID0592DSDVD | Image EntertainmentSeries: Unseen cinema ; 1.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 in. + (1 booklet [16] pages ; 19 cm)Content type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9.E96 U57 2005
Contents:
5 Paris Exposition films (1900) / James White: Eiffel Tower from Trocadero Palace (1900) -- Palace of Electricity (1900) -- Champs de Mars (1900) -- Panorama of Eiffel Tower (1900) -- Scene from elevator ascending Eiffel Tower (1900) -- Captain Nissen going through Whirlpool Rapids, Niagara Falls (1901 : creators unknown) -- Down the Hudson (1903) / Frederick Armitage & A.E. Weed -- The ghost train (1903 : creators unknown) -- Westinghouse Works, panorama view Street Car Motor Room (1904) / G.W. "Billy" Bitzer -- In youth, beside the lonely sea (c. 1924-25 : creators unknown).
Melody on parade (c. 1936 : creators unknown) -- La cartomancienne (The Fortune Teller) (1932) / Jerome Hill -- Pie in the sky (1934-35) / Nykino: Elia Kazan, Ralph Steiner & Irving Lerner -- Travel notes (1932) / Walker Evans -- Oil: a symphony in motion (1933) / Artkino: M.G. MacPherson & Jean Michelson -- Poem 8 (1932-33) / Emlen Etting -- Storm (1942-43) / Paul Burnford -- Portrait of a young man (1925-31) / Henwar Rodakiewicz -- Movement one -- Movement two -- Movement three.
Production credits:
  • Administered by Robert A. Haller and Winfried Günther.
Summary: "The dynamic qualities of motion pictures are explored by cameramen and filmakers through novel experiments in technique and form."--Container.
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Video Recording Carleton University, AVRC SP456 - Collections Room DVD-02829 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 16050276536

Aspect ratio 1.33:1.

Originally released in the 1900.

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.

5 Paris Exposition films (1900) / James White: Eiffel Tower from Trocadero Palace (1900) -- Palace of Electricity (1900) -- Champs de Mars (1900) -- Panorama of Eiffel Tower (1900) -- Scene from elevator ascending Eiffel Tower (1900) -- Captain Nissen going through Whirlpool Rapids, Niagara Falls (1901 : creators unknown) -- Down the Hudson (1903) / Frederick Armitage & A.E. Weed -- The ghost train (1903 : creators unknown) -- Westinghouse Works, panorama view Street Car Motor Room (1904) / G.W. "Billy" Bitzer -- In youth, beside the lonely sea (c. 1924-25 : creators unknown).

Melody on parade (c. 1936 : creators unknown) -- La cartomancienne (The Fortune Teller) (1932) / Jerome Hill -- Pie in the sky (1934-35) / Nykino: Elia Kazan, Ralph Steiner & Irving Lerner -- Travel notes (1932) / Walker Evans -- Oil: a symphony in motion (1933) / Artkino: M.G. MacPherson & Jean Michelson -- Poem 8 (1932-33) / Emlen Etting -- Storm (1942-43) / Paul Burnford -- Portrait of a young man (1925-31) / Henwar Rodakiewicz -- Movement one -- Movement two -- Movement three.

DVD - NTSC; Dolby digital stereo; Region 0.

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