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Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant-Garde Film 1894-1941 A DVD Retrospective from the World’s Leading Film Collections, 7 DVDs - 20 hours - 155 Films7 DVDs - 20 hours - 155 films
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100 filmmakers are represented including Busby Berkeley, Marcel Duchamp, Robert Flaherty, D.W. Griffith, Elia Kazan, Man Ray, Paul Strand, Orson Welles, and many other avant-garde, professional, and amateur movie-makers.
The 155 films selected by Bruce Posner and David Shepard offer viewers an intriguing and entertaining history of early American cinema made up of dramas, abstractions, home movies, parodies, animation, nature studies, poetry, and montages. Many of the films have been unavailable since their creation, some have never been screened in public, and all have been newly preserved from the finest archival source materials gathered from around the world. Unseen Cinema features for the first time Fernand Léger and American Dudley Murphy’s abstract film Ballet mécanique (1924)  synchronized to George Antheil’s avant-garde music scored for 16 player pianos, percussions, sirens, bells, and an airplane propeller; Elizabeth Woodman Wright’s eloquent home-movies; and Joseph Cornell’s enigmatic collage films. Many, many other surprises await the viewer of Image’s DVD anthology of avant-garde films.
 Sixty leading film archives cooperated with Anthology Film Archives, the New York-based film museum exclusively devoted to avant-garde cinema, to compile the largest touring film program in film history. Films were preserved and donated by the British Film Institute, George Eastman House, Gosfilmofond of Russia, The Library of Congress, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, Nederlands Filmmuseum, Paramount Pictures, Turner Entertainment, and Warner Bros. Entertainment.
Acclaimed by audiences and critics at the 2001 Moscow International Film Festival, the original Unseen Cinema film retrospective toured film festivals, museums, and art cinemas around the globe.  Centre Pompidou in Paris presented the films as "The creative explosion that took place at the margins of Hollywood." The new DVD version of Unseen Cinema has been carefully revised and digitally mastered with new music tracks by Film Preservation Associates.
"We believe these irreplaceable films are a vital part of American history and culture," says Ann Turner, vice president and general manager of Kodak’s Entertainment Imaging Division. "We are proud to play a role in assuring that the stories of our times are restored to their original pristine condition, preserved for posterity and made available to audiences." 
Unseen Cinema is sponsored by Anthology Film Archives, New York, and Deutsches Filmmuseum, Frankfurt am Main, and made possible in part by Eastman Kodak Company, Cineric, Inc., and Film Preservation Associates, Inc.
Includes: Light Rhythms - Francis Bruguiere Rhythm in Light- Mary Ellen Bute Synchromy No. 2 -Mary Ellen Bute Escape- Mary Ellen Bute Spook Sport- Mary Ellen Bute, Norman McLaren and Ted Nemeth Tarantella- Mary Ellen Bute, Norman McLaren and Ted Nemeth Parabola - Mary Ellen Bute, Rutherford Boyd, Ted Nemeth Glens Falls Sequence- Douglass Crockwell Simple Destiny Abstractions- Douglass Crockwell Scherzo - Norman McLaren Stars and Stripes- Norman McLaren Composition No. 1: Themis- Dwinell Grant Composition No. 2: Counterthemis- Dwinell Grant An Optical Poem- Oskar Fischinger and many others |
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