Shepard, David, <br/><br/>
The amateur as auteur  discovering paradise in pictures /  [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 (175 min.) :  sd. & si., blanco y negro, a color tinted, y a color ;  4 3/4 in. 
 - Unseen cinema : early American avant-garde film, 1894-1941 ;  6 .
<br/><br/> 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). 
<br/><br/>Case sound tests / Theodore Case (c. 1924-25) (8 min.) -- Windy Ledge farm / Elizabeth Woodman Wright (c. 1929-34) (18 min.) -- Day in Santa Fe / Lynn Riggs and James Hughes (1931) (29 min.) -- Stewart family home movies / Archie Stewart (1935-39) (33 min.) -- Children´s party / Joseph Cornell, completed by Lawrence Jordan ; (c. 1938-68) (10 min.) -- Cotillion / Joseph Cornell, completed by Lawrence Jordan ; (c. 1938-68) (9 min.) -- Midnight party / Joseph Cornell, completed by Lawrence Jordan ; (c. 1938-68) (4 min.) -- Haiti / Rudy Burckhardt (1938) (16 min.) -- Tree trunk to head / Lewis Jacobs ; Film Associates (1937-38) (35 min.) -- Bicycle polo at San Mateo / Frank Stauffacher (1940-42) (3 min.) -- 1126 Dewey Ave., Apt 207 / attributed to John C. Hecker (1939) (3 min.). 
<br/><br/>Music, Robert Israel, Neal Kurz, Erik Satie, Rodney Sauer.  Music, Robert Israel, Neal Kurz, Erik Satie, Rodney Sauer. 
<br/><br/>Chaim Gross. 
<br/><br/> American experimental film has existed since the technological inception of cinema, through its adolescent rambles of 1900-1919, rising phoenix-like during the high silent era, and finally matured and spread throughout the ´30´s and onward. The background against which the experimentalists toiled provides a fascinating review of Americana coupled with numerous cross-currents, successes and failures, and an unfailing desire to create on film an image that can be viewed as an independent and provocative art. These home-made films incorporate avant-garde strategies and techniques to achieve a true sense of cinematic intimacy. 
<br/><br/><br/>DVD; Region 0 (All), NTSC; Dolby Digital stereo; original presentation aspect ratio, 1.33:1. 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>0 014381059229 
<br/><br/><label>Publisher. No.: </label>ID0592DSDVD  Image Entertainment (set) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Cine experimental.--Estados Unidos.<br/>Cortometrajes--Estados Unidos.<br/>Películas cinematográficas--Estados Unidos.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>791.43  / S547a 2005