Treasures IV :  American avant garde film, 1947-1986. 
 American avant garde film, 1947-1986 

, United States 
 - San Francisco, Calif. :  [Chatsworth, Calif.] :  National Film Preservation Foundation ;  Distributed by Image Entertainment,  ©2009. 
 - 2 videodiscs (approximately 312 min.) :  sound, color and black and white ;  4 3/4 in. +  1 book (70 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm) 
 -  plastic  4 3/4 in. 
 - NAT ;  4737DVD .
 - NAT ;  4737DVD. .
<br/><br/> Booklet includes a foreword by Martin Scorsese, an introductory essay by Jeff Lambert, and brief uncredited essays about each film.  Special features: Contributors (information in text format about the Archives, Composer, Designer, and the National Film Preservation Foundation); Booklet. 
<br/><br/> Film no. 3 : interwoven /  Notes on the circus /  Here I am /  Fake fruit factory /  Odds & ends /  Eyewash /  Peyote queen /  7362 /  Aleph /  Note to Pati /  By night with torch and spear /  The riddle of lumen /  The end /  Harry Smith  Jonas Mekas  Bruce Baillie  Chick Strand  Jane Conger Belson Shimane  Robert Breer  Storm De Hirsch  Pat O'Neill  Wallace Berman  Saul Levine  Joseph Cornell  Stan Brakhage  Christopher Maclaine  Disc 1.  (1949, 3 min.) --  (1966, 12 min.) --  (1962, 10 min.) --  (1986, 22 min.) --  (1959, 4 min.) --  (1959, 3 min.) --  (1965, 9 min.) --  (1967, 10 min.) --  (1956-66?, 8 min.) --  (1969, 7 min.) --  (1940s?, 8 min.) --  (1972, 13 min.) --  (1953, 34 min.).  Bridges-go-round /  Go! Go! Go! /  Little stabs at happiness /  Chumlum /  Mario banana (no. 1) /  I, an actress /  The off-handed jape-- & how to pull it off /  New improved institutional quality: in the environment of liquids and nasals a parasitic vowel sometimes develops /  Hamfat Asar /  Necrology /  Fog line /  (nostalgia) /  Bad burns /  Shirley Clarke  Marie Menken  Ken Jacobs  Ron Rice  Andy Warhol  George Kuchar  Robert Nelson & William T. Wiley  Owen Land  Lawrence Jordan  Standish Lawder  Larry Gottheim  Hollis Frampton  Paul Sharits  Disc 2.  (1958, 4 min.) --  (1962-64, 11 min.) --  (1959-63, 15 min.) --  (1964, 23 min.) --  (1964, 4 min.) --  (1977, 9 min.) --  (1967, 8 min.) --  (1976, 10 min.) --  (1965, 13 min.) --  (1969-70, 11 min.) --  (1970, 11 min.) --  (1971, 36 min.) --  (1982, 6 min.). 
<br/><br/>Designer, Jennifer Grey ; music, John Zorn.  Designer, Jennifer Grey ; music, John Zorn. 
<br/><br/> Presents 26 films by artists who helped to redefine cinema. Shows an array of film types and styles, from abstract animation to documentary and balances acknowledged classics with rediscoveries. The films are drawn from the preservation work of five of America's foremost avant-garde archives: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Anthology Film Archives, The Museum of Modern Art, The New York Public Library, and The Pacific Film Archive. None of the titles has been available before on good-quality video in the United States. 
<br/><br/><br/>DVD; region 0, NTSC; full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby digital. <br/>DVD, NTSC, all regions; Dolby digital. <br/>DVD, NTSC, all regions; Dolby digital. <br/>DVD, NTSC, all regions; Dolby digital. 
<br/><br/><br/>In English. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780974709956 0974709956 9780974709956 0974709956 9780974709956 0974709956 9780974709956 0974709956 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>014381473728 014381473728 014381473728 014381473728 
<br/><br/><label>Publisher. No.: </label>NATD4737DVD  National Film Preservation Foundation 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2007640418 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--History.--United States<br/>Motion pictures--History.--United States<br/>Experimental films.<br/>Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--History--United States--20th century.<br/>Courts métrages--États-Unis.<br/>Films expérimentaux.<br/>Avant-garde (Art)--Histoire--États-Unis--20e siècle.<br/>Cinéma--Histoire.--États-Unis<br/>Avant-garde (Aesthetics)<br/>Motion pictures.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Short films--United States.<br/>Anthology films.<br/>Video recordings.<br/>Short films.<br/>Nonfiction films.<br/>Fiction films.<br/>Experimental films.<br/>History.<br/>Short films.<br/>Experimental films.<br/>Anthology films.<br/>Short films.<br/>Fiction films.<br/>Nonfiction films.<br/>Video recordings.<br/>Experimental--Short films.<br/>Films expérimentaux.<br/>Films à sketches.<br/>Courts métrages.<br/>Films de fiction.<br/>Films autres que de fiction.<br/>Vidéos.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN1995.9.E96  / T74 2009 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>791.43/75 
<br/><br/><label>National Library of Medicine Call No.: </label>NATD4737DVD  / National Film Preservation Foundation