Avant Garde 3 Experimental Cinema 1922 1954 2dvd

Avant-Garde Volume 3: Experimental Cinema 1922-1954

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DISC ONE

* DANSE MACABRE
US 1922 Color Tinted 6 Min.
Dir: Dudley Murphy
* RIEN QUE LES HEURES
(Nothing But Time)
US 1926 B&W 46 Min.
Dir: Alberto Cavalcanti
Music by Larry Marotta
* THE TELL-TALE HEART
US 1928 B&W 20 Min.
Dir: Charles F. Klein
Music by Sue Harshe
* TARANTELLA
US 1940 Color 4 Min.
Dir: Mary Ellen Bute, Ted Nemeth
* TOMATOS ANOTHER DAY
US 1930 B&W 7 Min.
Dir: James Sibley Watson
* THE UNCOMFORTABLE MAN
US 1948 B&W 23 Min.
Intentionally silent
Dir: Kent Munson, Theodore Huff
The above films are from the collection of the George Eastman House Motion Picture Department
* THE PETRIFIED DOG
US 1948 B&W 18 Min.
Dir: Sidney Peterson
* THE LEAD SHOES (National Film Registry>
US 1949 B&W 16 Min.
Dir: Sidney Peterson
* FOUR IN THE AFTERNOON
US 1951 B&W 14 Min.
Dir: James Broughton

DISC TWO

* PLAGUE SUMMER
US 1951 B&W 15 Min.
Dir: Chester Kessler
* LA MORT DU CERF
(The Death of a Stag)
France 1951 B&W 12 Min.
Dir: Dimitri Kirsanoff
* IMAGE IN THE SNOW
US 1952 B&W 26 Min.
Dir: Willard Maas
* CELERY STALKS AT MIDNIGHT
France 1952 Color 3 Min.
Dir: John Whitney
* THE VOICES
US 1953 B&W 14 Min.
Dir: John E. Schmitz
* CLOSED VISION
US 1954 B&W 65 Min.
Dir: Marc'O

BONUS FILMS

* TOMATOS ANOTHER DAY (outtakes)
US 1930 B&W 5 Min. Dir: James Sibley Watson
* EPISODES IN THE LIFE OF A GIN BOTTLE
US 1925 B&W 11 Min. Dir: Bela von Block
Music by Paul Mercer, Bruce Bennett and Davis Petterson
* SCHICHLEGRUBER DOING THE LAMBETH WALK
UK 1941 B&W 2 Min. Dir: Charles A. Ridley
* DEMENTIA (excerpt)
US 1955 B&W 5 Min. Dir: John Parker
* FALLING PINK
US circa late 1950s Color 9 Min. Dir: Robert H. Spring
Music by Paul Mercer and Bruce Bennett