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.
Notes:
Danse macabre: Adolph Bolm, Ruth Page, Olin Howland. Rein que les heures: Blanche Bernis, Philippe Hériat. The telltale heart: Otto Matiesen. The petrified dog: Gail Randall, Marie Hirsh, Jo Landor, Ian Zellick, Leslie Turner, Carl Austen, William Heick, Charles Mather, Hal Bronstein. The lead shoes: Jeremy Anderson, Elsa Barrett, Jack Klough. Four in the afternoon: Ann Halprin, Welland Lathrop, Charmian St. John, Don Penney. Image in the snow: Hunter Jones, Ellen McCool; narrator, Ben Moore. Closed vision: Daniele Maurel, Robert R. Guiot, Merlin Hare ; le récitant (French), Jean-Pierre Harrison ; narrator (English), Lewis Carliner. Episodes in the life of a gin bottle: Rex Lease. Falling pink: Lynn [i.e. Llyn] Foulkes. Special features: Notes for each film are available via the "Select a film" menu; Introduction to bonus films.
Contents:
(1951, U.S.) (14 min.). Four in the afternoon / a Farallone Films production ; a film suite by James Broughton ; based on poems in his book "Musical Chairs" (1922, U.S.) (6 min.) -- Rien que les heures = Nothing but time / [Alberto Cavalcanti] (1926, France) (46 min.) -- The telltale heart / adapted and directed by Charles F. Klein (1928, U.S.) (20 min.) -- Tomatos another day / [director, James Sibley Watson] (1930, U.S.) (7 min.) -- Tarantella / 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 / Workshop 20, California School of Fine Arts ; directed by Sidney Peterson (1948, U.S.) (18 min.) -- The lead shoes / a Workshop 20 production ; California 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.). (1956-59, U.S.) (10 min.). Robair presents ; produced and directed by Robert H. Spring (1951, U.S.) (16 min.) -- Falling pink / réalisé par Dimitri Kirsanoff (1951, France) (13 min.) -- Image in the snow / a film poem by Willard Maas (1952, U.S.) (26 min.) -- Celery stalks at midnight / director, John Whitney (1952, U.S.) (3 min.) -- The voices / Raymond Rohauer presents ; directed by John E. Schmitz (1953, U.S.) (14 min.) -- Closed vision = close vision / dialogue and screen treatment by Jean Cocteau ; directed by Marc'O. (1955, Franco-American) (65 min.). Bonus features: Episodes in the life of a gin bottle / [Bela von Block] (1925, U.S.) (12 min.) -- Schichlegruber doing the Lambeth Walk / Official films presents ; 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 / Robair presents ; produced and directed by Robert H. Spring (1956-59, U.S.) (10 min.).
Summary:
Long before home video there flourished an alternative cinema culture on college campuses and around art theaters, where foreign film fare was often accompanied by a short subject. As reliable 16mm film equipment became available to non-professionals, artists independent of film centers began experimenting with cinema. Serious film societies sprang up in New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, holding semi-private screenings of non-commercial artistic films. For years, these pictures have been exhibited only in infrequent museum screenings, if at all. This collection is of mainly American pictures, principally one-man artistic endeavors made from little more than an artist's desire to express feelings with a camera.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.