Picturing a metropolis :  New York City unveiled / 

 - 1 videodisc (152 min.) :  sound & silent, black and white and color ;  4 3/4 in. 
 - Unseen cinema : early American avant-garde film, 1894-1941 ;  5 .
 - Unseen cinema ;  5. .
<br/><br/> Aspect ratio 1.33:1.  Originally released between 1899 and 1940.  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. 
<br/><br/> "Early views"  Blizzard  Lower Broadway  Beginning of a skyscraper  Panorama from Times Building, New York  Skyscrapers of NYC from North River  Panorama from Tower of the Brooklyn Bridge  "Tricks of the trade"  Demolishing and building up the Star Theatre  Coney Island at night  -- The  (1899) / creators unknown --  (1902) / Robert K. Bonine --  (1902) / Robert K. Bonine --  (1905) / Wallace McCutcheon --  (1903) / J.B. Smith --  (1903) / G.W. "Billy" Bitzer --  (1901) / Frederick S. Armitage --  (1905) / Edwin S. Porter --  Interior New York Subway 14th Street to 42nd Street  Seeing New York by yacht  Looney Lens: Split skyscrapers  Looney Lens: Tenth Avenue, NYC  Scenes from Ford Educational Weekly  8th Avenue elevated train at 112th Street  trellis : work of sunshine and shade  View of Herald Square Station  Aerial view of Sixth Ave. train at 28th, 26th, 24th  Manhatta  (1905) / G.W. "Billy" Bitzer --  (1902) / Frederick Armitage & A.E. Weed --  (1924) / Al Brick --  (1924) / Al Brick --  (1916-24) / creators unknown --  -- The  (1921) / Charles Sheeler & Paul Strand --  Twenty four Dollar Island  Skyscraper symphony  Manhattan medley  Bronx morning  Footnote to fact  "Seeing the world," part one: a visit to New York, N.Y.  Pursuit of happiness  Gold Diggers of 1935 : "Lullaby of Broadway"  Autumn fire  (c. 1926) / Robert Flaherty --  (1929) / Robert Florey --  (1931) / Bonney Powell -- A  (1931) / Jay Leyda --  (1933) / Lewis Jacobs --  (1937) / Rudy Burckhardt -- The  (1940) / Rudy Burckhardt --  (1935) / Busby Berkeley --  (1930-33) / Herman Weinberg. 
<br/><br/>Administered by Robert A. Haller and Winfried Günther ; music, Eric Beheim ... [et al.]  Administered by Robert A. Haller and Winfried Günther ; music, Eric Beheim ... [et al.] 
<br/><br/> "The DVD depicts dynamic images of New York City and scenes of New Yorkers among the skyscrapers, streets, and night life of America's greatest city during a half century of progress, while at the same time showing changes in film style and the history of cinema experiments"--http://www.unseen-cinema.com/. 
<br/><br/><br/>DVD - NTSC; Dolby digital stereo; Region 0. 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>014381059229 (set) 
<br/><br/><label>Publisher. No.: </label>ID0592DSDVD  Image Entertainment 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>National Book Committee.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Motion pictures, American.<br/>History.<br/>Experimental films.<br/>Experimental films--United States.<br/>Motion pictures--United States.<br/>Motion pictures.<br/>Motion pictures, American--History.<br/>Surrealism in motion pictures.<br/>Surrealism in motion pictures.<br/>Dance in motion pictures, television, etc.<br/>Dance in motion pictures, television, etc.<br/>Experimental.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>New York (N.Y.)--In motion pictures.<br/>United States.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Silent films.<br/>Silent films.<br/>Short films.<br/>Short films.<br/>Documentary films.<br/>Documentary films.<br/>Video recordings.<br/>Video recordings.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN1995.9.E96  / U577 2005