“A Treasure Trove of Rare Material from the First Decades of Cinema.” —The Whitney Museum of American Art

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“A treasure trove of rare material from the first decades of cinema.” —The Whitney Museum of American Art

“The creative explosion that took place at the margins of Hollywood.”—Le Monde, Paris

“This ambitious show - devoted to vanguard cinema from the first half of the motion pictures' century – could p have enough surprises to qualify as history in the s t r

(re)making.”—J. Hoberman, The Village Voice r e e - e b t “Rich with inventive and curious experiments.” o d —LA Weekly o a k t e d : “An amazing collection, with plenty of playful surrealism a O and literate influences, many films long thought lost and t e c

many more never known to even have existed.” : t S —The Guardian, London o e b p e t r

“In terms of genre, Unseen Cinema covers a lot more e 1

ground than a typical film series, but that decision to m cast a wide net is true to the early avant-garde, who 8 b were willing to include nearly anything in their definition , e 2 of cinema.”—Rachel Proctor May, The Austin Chronicle r 0 0 2 5 0

“Unseen Cinema covers a wide range of works. At one ,

end of the spectrum are sequences made for Hollywood 2 blockbusters by visionary directors. Although they were 0 produced by mainstream studios, these episodes have 0 an explosively experimental spirit.” 5 —David Sterritt, The Christian Science Monitor

UNSEEN CINEMA: EARLY AMERICAN AVANT-GARDE FILM 1894-1941 Black & White/Color • Dolby Digital Stereo • 2005 • 18 Hrs. 47 Mins. • Not Rated • 7 Discs • $99.99 • ID0592DSDVD • UPC 014381059229 • Special Interest

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featured films 7 DVDs 19 Hours 155 Unforgettable films of Avant-Garde Cinema! “Annabelle Dances and Dances,” Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant-Garde Film 1894-1941 featured directors “Early Superimpositions,” “Diana the reveals little-known accomplishments of American filmmakers working in the United States and abroad from the invention of Huntress,” “The Soul of the Cypress,” cinema until World War II and offers an Orson Welles, Sergei Eisenstein, innovative and often controversial view “Loony Lens: Pas de Deux,” Elia Kazan, Ernst Lubitsch, Victor of experimental film as a product of “Oramunde,” “Hands,” “Joie de avant-garde artists, of professional Fleming, Robert Florey, Busby directors and of amateur moviemakers Berkeley, William Cameron vivre,” “Dada,” “Stars and Stripes,” working collectively and as individuals at all levels of film production. Many of the Menzies, Charles Vidor, “Danse Macabre,” “Peer Gynt,” films have not been available since their Alexandre Alexeieff, Sara Kathryn “The House with Closed Shutters,” creation, some have never been screened in public, and almost all have been Arledge, Norman Bel Geddes, “Suspense,” “Moonland,” “Black unavailable in copies as good as these Josef Berne, G.W. “Billy” Bitzer, Dawn,” “Ballet mécanique,” “H2O,” until now. Sixty of the world's leading film archive collections cooperated with David Bradley, Francis Bruguière, “The Furies,” “So This Is Paris,” Anthology Film Archives to bring this Rudy Burckhardt, Mary Ellen Bute, long-neglected period of film history back “Scherzo,” “The Thieving Hand,” Theodore Case, Joseph Cornell, to life for modern audiences. “Beggar on Horseback,” “The Fall of Douglass Crockwell, James Disc One the House of Usher,” “The Telltale THE MECHANIZED EYE: Experiments in Cruze, W.K.L. Dickson, Boris Technique and Form Deutsch, Emlen Etting, Walker Heart,” “Jack’s Dream,” “The Ghost Disc Two Train,” “Portrait of a Young Man” THE DEVIL’S PLAYTHING: Evans, Oskar Fischinger, Robert American Surrealism Flaherty, Dwinell Grant, D.W. and many more! Disc Three Griffith, Jerome Hill, John LIGHT RHYTHMS: Music and Abstraction Disc Four Hoffman, Hector Hoppin, INVERTED NARRATIVES: New Directions Theodore Huff, Leo Hurwitz, in Storytelling Lewis Jacobs, Charles Klein, special features Disc Five • Digitally mastered from newly preserved and restored 35mm and 16mm prints PICTURING A METROPOLIS: Francis Lee, Fernand Léger, Jay New York City Unveiled • New recordings of original music by George Antheil, Marc Blitzstein and others; Disc Six Leyda, Norman McLaren, George new film scores by Eric Beheim, Neal Kurz, Paul Lehrman, Guy Livingston, THE AMATEUR AS AUTEUR: Discovering L.K. Morris, Dudley Murphy, Claire Rodney Sauer, Donald Sosin and others Paradise in Pictures Parker, Edwin S. Porter, Man Ray, • Film notes and filmmaker biographies by historians and scholars Kevin Brownlow, Disc Seven David Curtis, Robert A. Haller, Jan-Christopher Horak, David James, Scott VIVA LA DANCE: The Beginnings of Lynn Riggs, Henwar Rodakiewicz, MacDonald, Bruce Posner, David Shepard, Paul Spehr, Cecile Starr and 32 others Ciné-Dance Rose Sélavy, Charles Sheeler, • Rare photos of the films and filmmakers Stella Simon, Ralph Steiner, • Essay by curator Bruce Posner Archie Stewart, Paul Strand, Willard Van Dyke, Slavko Vorkapich, J.S. Watson, Jr., Melville Webber, Lois Weber, Herman G. Weinberg, Elizabeth Woodman Wright and many others.