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Originally released as separate motion pictures, 1894-1941.

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.

Disc 1. The mechanized eye: experiments in technique and form (161 min.) -- Disc 2. The devil's plaything: american surrealism (161 min.) -- Disc 3. Light rhythms: music and abstraction (168 min.) -- Disc 4. Inverted narratives: new directions in storytelling (155 min.) -- Disc 5. Picturing a metropolis: New York City unveiled (152 min.) -- Disc 6. The amateur as actor: discovering paradise in pictures (175 min.) -- Disc 7. Viva la dance: the beginnings of cine-dance (155 min.).

Disc 1. The mechanized eye: experiments in technique and form "Paris Exposition Films" (1900) -- 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) -- Down the Hudson (1903) -- The Ghost Train (1903) -- Westinghouse Works, Panorama View, Street Car Motor Room (1904) -- In Youth, Beside the Lonely Sea (c. 1924-25) -- Melody on Parade (c.1936) -- La Cartomancienne (The Fortune Teller) (1932) -- Pie in the Sky (1934-35) -- Travel Notes (1932) -- Oil - A Symphony in Motion (1933) -- Poem 8 (1932-33) -- Storm (1942-43) -- Portrait of a Young Man (1925-31) -- Movement One -- Movement Three.

Disc 2. The devil's plaything: american surrealism Jack and the Beanstalk (1902) -- Dream of a Rarebit Fiend (1906) -- The Thieving Hand (1907) -- Impossible Convicts (1905) -- When the Clouds Roll By (1919) -- Beggar on Horseback (1925) -- The Fall of the House of Usher (1926-28) -- The Life and Death of 9413 - A Hollywood Extra (1927) -- The Love of Zero (1928) -- The Telltale Heart (1928) -- Tomatos Another Day (1930/1933) -- The Hearts of Age (1934) -- "The Enigmatic World of Joseph Cornell" -- Unreal News Reels, Nos. 1 & 2 -- The Children's Jury (c.1938) -- Thimble Theater (c.1938-?) -- Carousel - Animal Opera (c.1938-?) -- Jack's Dream (c.1938-?).

Disc 3. Light rhythms: music and abstraction Le Retour a la raison (return for a Reason) (1923) -- Ballet mécanique (1923-24) -- Anémic cinéma (1924-26) -- Looney Lens: Anamorphic People (1927) -- Out of the Melting Pot (1927) -- H20 (1929) -- Surf and Seaweed (1929-30) -- "Vorkapich Montage Sequences" (1928-37) -- "The Furies" (1934) -- "Legacy of a Hollywood Extra" -- "Skyline Dance" (1928) -- "Money Machine" (1929) -- "Prohibition" (1929) -- The Firefly "Vorkapich edit" (1937) -- The Firefly "MGM release version" (1937) -- Maytime (1937) -- "Light and Abstraction" -- So This is Paris (1926) -- Light Rhythms (1930) -- Une Nuit sur le Mont Chauve (Night on a Bald Mountain) (1934) -- Rhythm in Light (1934) -- Synchromy No. 2 (1936) -- Parabola (1937) -- Footlight Parade "By a Waterfall" (1933) -- Glens Falls Sequence (1937-46) -- Simple Destiny Abstractions (1937-40) -- Abstract Movies (1937-47) -- Scherzo (1939) -- Composition No. 1: Themis (1940) -- Composition No. 2: Contrathemis (1941) -- 1941 (1941) -- Moods of the Sea (1941).

Disc 4. Inverted narratives: new directions in storytelling The House with closed shutters (1910) -- Suspense (1913) -- Moonland (1923-26) -- Lullaby (1929) -- The Bridge (1929-30) -- Little geezer (1932) -- Black dawn (1933) -- "Titles" -- "Plowing" -- "End of day" -- "A Night to remember" -- Native land (1937-41) -- "Bought and paid for" -- "On the march" -- "Millions of little people" -- "Murder one man" -- The World today: black legion (1936-37) -- Even as you and I (1937) -- Object lesson (1941) -- "Sredni Vashtar" by Sake (1940-43).

Disc 5. Picturing a metropolis: New York City unveiled "Early Views" -- The Blizzard (1899) -- Lower Broadway (1902) -- Beginning of a skyscraper (1902) -- Panorama from Times Building, New York (1905) -- Skyscrapers of NYC from North River (1903) -- Panorama from the Tower of the Brooklyn Bridge (1903) -- "Tricks of the trade" -- Demolishing and building up the Star Theatre (1901) -- Coney Island at night (1905) -- Interior New York subway 14th Street to 42nd St (1905) -- Seeing New York by yacht (1902) -- Looney lens: split skyscrapers (1924) -- Looney lens: Tenth Avenue, NYC (1924) -- Scenes from Ford Educational Weekly (1916-1924) -- 8th Avenue elevated train at 112th Street -- The Trellis - work of sunshine and shade -- View of Hearld Square Station -- Aerial view of Sixth Avenue train at 28th, 26th, 24th -- Manhatta (1921) -- 24 dollar island (c. 1926) -- Skyscraper symphony (1929) -- Manhattan melody (1931) -- A Bronx morning (1931) -- Footnote to fact (1933) -- "Seeing the world," Part one: a visit to New York, N.Y. (1937) -- The Pursuit of happiness (1940) -- Gold diggers of 1935 "Lullaby of Broadway (1935) -- Autumn fire (1930-33).

Disc 6. The Amateur as auteur: discovering paradise in pictures Case sound tests (c. 1924-25) -- Theodore Case -- Man and harmonica -- Man and harp -- Gus Visser and his singing duck -- Man and ukulele -- Theodore Case -- Windy ledge farm (c. 1929-34) -- A Day in Santa Fe (1931) -- Stewart family home movies (c. 1936-39) -- "Joseph Cornell's children trilogy -- Children's party (c. 1938) -- Cotillion (c. 1938) -- The Midnight party (c. 1938) -- Haiti (1938) -- Tree trunk to head (1938) -- Bicycle polo at San Mateo (1940-42) -- 1126 Dewey Ave., Apt. 207 (1939).

Disc 7. Viva la dance: the beginnings of cine-dance "Annabelle dances and dances" (1894-1897) -- Annabelle butterfly dance #1 (1894) -- Annabelle butterfly dance #3 (1895) -- Serpentine dance by Annabelle (1896) -- Annabelle serpentine dance #1 (1894) -- Annabelle serpentine dance #4 (1897) -- Crissie Sheridan serpentine dance (1897) -- Annabelle serpentine dance #4 (1897) -- Serpentine dance (1897) -- "Early superimpositions" -- Davy Jones locker (1900) -- Neptune's daughters (1900) -- A Nymph of the waves (1900) -- Diana the huntress (1916) -- The Soul of the Cypress (1920) -- Looney lens: Pas de deux (1924) -- Hande: Das Leben und die liebe eines zartlichen geschlechts (Hands: The Life and loves of the gentler sex) (1927-28) -- Part I: Prelude -- Part II: Der Einzeln -- Part III: Ausgleich -- Mechanical principles (1930) -- Tilly Losch in her dance of hands (c. 1930-33) -- Sergei Eisenstein's Mexican footage (1931) -- "Dance of the heads" -- "Day of the dead" -- Oramunde (1933) -- Hands (1934) -- Joie de vivre (1934) -- Wonder Bar "Don't say goodnight" (1934) -- Dada (1936) -- Escape (1938) -- An Optical poem (1938) -- Abstract experiment in Kodachrome (c. 1940s-50s) -- NBC Valentine greeting (1939-1940) -- Stars and stripes (1940) -- Tarantella (1940) -- Spook sport (1940) -- Danse macabre (1922) -- Peer Gynt (1941) -- Opening titles -- Pagan dance -- Introspection (1941/46).

DVD, region 0, full screen (1.33:1) presentations; Dolby Digital.