The Devil´s plaything American surrealism / [DVD] :
Anthology Film Archives ; Kodak ; in association with British Film Institute-Cineric, Inc.-Deutsches Filmmuseum-Film Preservation Associates-George Eastman House-The Library of Congress-The Museum of Modern Art present ; curator, Bruce Posner ; DVD producer, David Shepard.
- 1 DVD (161 min.) : sd. & si., blanco y negro y a color tinted ; 4 3/4 in.
- Unseen cinema : early American avant-garde film, 1894-1941 ; 2 .
Special features: [PDF files require a DVD-ROM drive and Adobe Acrobat]; Filmmaker biographies and photo gallery; Acknowledgments; Sponsors; Film note authors; Musicians; Credits; Essay ´Where the Buffalo Roamed...Relative Histories of an Early American Avant-Garde Film´ by film historian Bruce Posner, in accompanying booklet (v.1).
Jack and the beanstalk / Edwin S. Porter ; Edison Manufacturing Co. (1902) (9 min.) -- Dream of a rarebit fiend / Edwin S. Porter ; Edison Manufacturing Co. (1906) (10 min.) -- Thieving hand / Vitagraph Company of America (1908) (6 min.) -- Impossible convicts / G. W. ´Billy´ Bitzer ; American Mutascope and Biograph Co. (1905) (3 min.) -- When the clouds roll by (Food-induced nightmare) / Victor Fleming ; (1919) (8 min.) -- Beggar on horseback (Dream fantasy wedding) / James Cruze ; Paramount Pictures (1925) (7 min.) -- Fall of the house of Usher / Melville Webber and J. S. Watson Jr. (1926-28) (13 min.) -- Life and death of 9413: a Hollywood extra / Robert Florey and Slavko Vorkapich (1927) (13 min.) -- Love of zero / Robert Florey and William Cameron Menzies (1928) (15 min.) -- Telltale heart / Charles F. Klein (1928) (24 min.) -- Tomato is another day / J. S. Watson Jr. and Alec Wilder (1930/33) (7 min.) -- Hearts of age / William Vance and Orson Welles (1934) (8 min.) -- Enigmatic cinema of Joseph Cornell Unreal news reel No. 2 / Joseph Cornell (1926-28) (6 min.) -- Children´s jury / Joseph Cornell (1938) (9 min.) -- Thimble theater / Joseph Cornell, completed by Lawrence Jordan ; (1930s-1970) (6 min.) -- Carousel: Animal opera / Joseph Cornell, completed by Lawrence Jordan ; (1930s-1970) (6 min.) -- Jack´s dream / Joseph Cornell, completed by Lawrence Jordan ; (1930-1970) (4 min.).
Música, Donald Sosin, Eric Beheim, Alec Wilder, Robert Israel, Erik Satie. Música, Donald Sosin, Eric Beheim, Alec Wilder, Robert Israel, Erik Satie.
Douglas Fairbanks, Herbert Stern, Hidegarde Watson, Melville Webber, Joseph Mari, Tamara Shavrova, Anielka Elter, Otto Mateisen, Virginia Nicholson, Orson Welles.
El alma de un vampiro lesbiana se mantiene en los cuerpos de sus descendientes.
DVD; Region 0 (All), NTSC; Dolby Digital stereo; original presentation aspect ratio, 1.33:1.
Película muda.
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ID0592DSDVD Image Entertainment (set)
Cine experimental.--Estados Unidos. Cortometrajes--Estados Unidos. Películas cinematográficas--Estados Unidos. Películas cinematográficas.--Historia.--Estados Unidos Surrealismo en las películas cinematográficas.