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Viva la dance : the beginnings of ciné-dance /

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: ID0592DSDVD | Image EntertainmentSeries: Unseen cinema ; 7.Publisher: New York, NY : distributed exclusively by Image Entertainment, [2005]Copyright date: ©2005Description: 1 videodisc (155 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 U579 2005
Contents:
Annabelle dances and dances (1894-1897) / W.K.L. Dickson, William Heise & James White -- "Early superimpositions" / Frederick S. Armitage -- Davy Jones locker (1900) / Frederick Armitage -- Neptune's daughters (1900) / Frederick Armitage -- A nymph of the waves (1900) / Frederick Armitage -- Diana the huntress (1916) / Charles Allen & Francis Trevelyan Miller (excerpt) -- The soul of the cypress (1920) / Dudley Murphy -- Looney lens: Pas de deux (1924) / Al Brick -- Hände : Das Leben und die Liebe eines Zärtlichen Geschlechts (Hands: the life and loves of the gentler sex) (1927-28) / Stella Simon & Miklos Bandy -- Mechanical principles (1930) / Ralph Steiner -- Tilly Losch in her dance of the hands (c. 1930-33) / Norman Bel Geddes -- 2 Sergei Eisenstein's Mexican footage (1931) / Sergei Eisenstein (excerpts) -- Oramunde (1933) / Emlen Etting; dancer: Mary Binney Wheeler -- Hands (1934) / Ralph Steiner & Willard Van Dyke -- Joie de vivre (1934) / Anthony Gross & Hector Hoppin -- Wonder bar: "Don't say goodnight" (1934) / Busby Berkeley (excerpt) -- Dada (1936) / Mary Ellen Bute & Ted Nemeth -- Escape (1938) / Mary Ellen Bute & Ted Nemeth -- An Optical poem (1938) / Oskar Fischinger -- Abstract experiment in Kodachrome (c. 1940-50s) / Slavko Vorpapich -- NBC valentine greeting (1939-40) / Norman McLaren -- Stars and Stripes (1940) / Norman McLaren -- Tarantella (1940) / Mary Ellen Bute, Ted Nemeth & Norman McLaren -- Spook sport (1940) / Mary Ellen Bute, Ted Nemeth & Norman McLaren -- Danse macabre (1922) / Dudley Murphy & Francis Brugière -- Peer Gynt (1941) / David Bradley, starring Charlton Heston (excerpt) -- Opening titles -- Pagan dance -- Introspection (1941/46) / Sara Kathryn Arledge.
Production credits:
  • Administered by Robert A. Haller and Winfried Günther ; music, Eric Beheim ... [et al.]
Summary: "Dance and film have shared the aspiration to creatively sculpt motion and time"--http://www.unseen-cinema.com/.
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Video Recording Carleton University, AVRC SP456 - Collections Room DVD-02835 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 16050276595

Aspect ratio 1.33:1.

Originally released between 1894 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.

Annabelle dances and dances (1894-1897) / W.K.L. Dickson, William Heise & James White -- "Early superimpositions" / Frederick S. Armitage -- Davy Jones locker (1900) / Frederick Armitage -- Neptune's daughters (1900) / Frederick Armitage -- A nymph of the waves (1900) / Frederick Armitage -- Diana the huntress (1916) / Charles Allen & Francis Trevelyan Miller (excerpt) -- The soul of the cypress (1920) / Dudley Murphy -- Looney lens: Pas de deux (1924) / Al Brick -- Hände : Das Leben und die Liebe eines Zärtlichen Geschlechts (Hands: the life and loves of the gentler sex) (1927-28) / Stella Simon & Miklos Bandy -- Mechanical principles (1930) / Ralph Steiner -- Tilly Losch in her dance of the hands (c. 1930-33) / Norman Bel Geddes -- 2 Sergei Eisenstein's Mexican footage (1931) / Sergei Eisenstein (excerpts) -- Oramunde (1933) / Emlen Etting; dancer: Mary Binney Wheeler -- Hands (1934) / Ralph Steiner & Willard Van Dyke -- Joie de vivre (1934) / Anthony Gross & Hector Hoppin -- Wonder bar: "Don't say goodnight" (1934) / Busby Berkeley (excerpt) -- Dada (1936) / Mary Ellen Bute & Ted Nemeth -- Escape (1938) / Mary Ellen Bute & Ted Nemeth -- An Optical poem (1938) / Oskar Fischinger -- Abstract experiment in Kodachrome (c. 1940-50s) / Slavko Vorpapich -- NBC valentine greeting (1939-40) / Norman McLaren -- Stars and Stripes (1940) / Norman McLaren -- Tarantella (1940) / Mary Ellen Bute, Ted Nemeth & Norman McLaren -- Spook sport (1940) / Mary Ellen Bute, Ted Nemeth & Norman McLaren -- Danse macabre (1922) / Dudley Murphy & Francis Brugière -- Peer Gynt (1941) / David Bradley, starring Charlton Heston (excerpt) -- Opening titles -- Pagan dance -- Introspection (1941/46) / Sara Kathryn Arledge.

DVD - NTSC; Dolby digital stereo; Region 0.

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