Avant-garde. 3 : experimental cinema

Alternate title: Experimental cinema, 1922-1954 | Title from main menu screen: Avant-garde. Series 3 | Subtitle on disc labels: Films from the Raymond Rohauer Collection and the George Eastman House Motion Picture Department | Danse macabre. | Rien que les heures. | Tell-tale heart. | Tarantella. | Tomatos another day. | Uncomfortable man. | Petrified dog. | Four in the afternoon. | Plague summer. | Mort du cerf. | Death of a stag. | Image in the snow. | Celery stalks at midnight. | Voices. | Closed vision. | Nothing but time. | Telltale heart. | Lead shoes. | Close vision. | Episodes in the life of a gin bottle. | Shichlegruber doing the Lambeth Walk. | Dementia. | Falling pink.
Original source: Title from disc label; edition and some credits from container. | "Produced for video by Bret Wood"--Container | Third film has container title: The tell-tale heart. | Special features: Notes by K.A. Westphal for each film are available via the "Select a film" menu; Introduction to bonus films; Tomatos another day outtakes. | Danse macabre: music, Camille Saint-Saëns ; animation, F.A.A. Dahme. Rien que les heures: photography, James Rogers ; music, Larry Marotta. Telltale heart: photography, Leo Shamroy ; music, Sue Harshe. Tarantella: music, Edwin Gerschefski. Four in the afternoon: music, William O. Smith. La mort du cerf: photography, Emile Houdeyer ; music, Maurice Thiriet ; English translation, Anna-Elisa and Jerome Mackowiak. Image in the snow: music, Ben Weber. The voices: music, Warren Burns. Closed vision: English adaptation and translation, Matthew Carney ; director of photography, J.G. Albicocco ; editing, J.G. Albicocco ; music, Roger Calmel. Episodes in the life of a gin bottle: music, Paul Mercer, Bruce Bennett, and Davis Petterson. Dementia: photography, William C. Thompson ; music, George Antheil. Falling pink: music, Paul Mercer and Bruce Bennett.
Release: New York, NY : Kino International, ©2009.
Physical description: 2 videodiscs (approximately 289 min.) : sound & silent, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in. | polychrome | monochrome | NTSC | video file | DVD video | all regions
Edition: Deluxe two-disc ed.
Contents: Contents: Disc 1: Danse macabre / [presented by] Visual Symphony Productions Inc. ; conception, Adolph Bolm ; direction, Dudley Murphy (1922, U.S.) (6 min.) -- Rien que les heures = Nothing but time / Alberto Cavalcanti (1926, France) (46 min.) -- The telltale heart / [presented by] the Film Society in conjunction with the International Film Arts Guild ; [presented by] Maurice Barber ; adapted and directed by Charles F. Klein (1928, U.S.) (20 min.) -- Tomatos another day (It never happened, what may happen, and it didn't happen that night) / James Sibley Watson (1930, U.S.) (7 min.) -- Tarantella : a swift moving dance / [presented by] Ted Nemeth Studios ; Mary Ellen Bute, [Ted Nemeth] (1940, U.S.) (4 min.) -- The uncomfortable man / a film by Kent Munson and Theodore Huff (1948, U.S.) (23 min.) -- The petrified dog / [presented by] Workshop 20, California School of Fine Arts ; directed by Sidney Peterson (1948, U.S.) (18 min.) -- The lead shoes / a Workshop 20 production ; California School of Fine Arts ; directed by Sidney Peterson (1949, U.S.) (16 min.) -- Four in the afternoon / a Farallone Films production ; a film suite by James Broughton ; based on poems in his book "Musical Chairs" (1951, U.S.) (14 min.). | Contents: Disc 2: The plague summer / adapted from "The journal of Albion Moonlight" by Kenneth Patchen ; [dir.] Chester Kessler (1951, U.S.) (16 min.) -- La mort du cerf = The death of a stag / réalisé par Dimitri Kirsanoff ; production des Films Kirsanoff (1951, France) (12 min.) -- Image in the snow / a film poem by Willard Maas ; a Gryphon production (1952, U.S.) (26 min.) -- Celery stalks at midnight / John Whitney (1951, U.S.) (3 min.) -- The voices / [presented by] Raymond Rohauer ; directed by John E. Schmitz ; original story and photography by John E. Schmitz (1953, U.S.) (14 min.) -- Closed vision = close vision / dialogue and screen treatment by Jean Cocteau ; directed by Marc'O ; production, the Society of Cinema Arts ; producer, Leon Vickman ; text, scenario, dialogues, Marc'O (1954, Franco-American) (65 min.). Bonus films: Episodes in the life of a gin bottle / a Cine Art Library film ; Bela von Block (ca. 1925, U.S.) (11 min.) -- Schichlegruber doing the Lambeth Walk (Lambeth Walk-- Nazi style) / [presented by] Official Films ; produced by Leslie Winik ; [dir.] Charles A. Ridley (1941, U.K.) (2 min.) -- Dementia (excerpt) / John J. Parker (1953, U.S.) (7 min.) -- Falling pink / [presented by] Robair ; produced and directed by Robert H. Spring (1956-59, U.S.) (9 min.).
Subjects: Art, Abstract -- In motion pictures | Experimental films -- United States | Motion pictures, American -- History | Motion pictures -- United States -- History | Experimental films -- United States -- History | Experimental films -- France | Experimental films | Motion pictures | Motion pictures, American | Surrealism in motion pictures | Visual literature | Surrealism | Motion pictures -- United States | Motion pictures -- France | Videodiscs | France | United States
Country: United States | France | Great Britain
Language note: Silent or with music; credits, intertitles, and some dialogue in English and French; occasional subtitles in English (on selected films).
Related works: Patchen, Kenneth, 1911-1972. Journal of Albion Moonlight. | Saint-Saëns, Camille, 1835-1921. Danse macabre (Symphonic poem)