Inverted narratives : new directions in storytelling / Anthology Film Archives in association with British Film Institute, Cineric, Inc., Deutsches Filmmuseum, Film Preservation Associates, George Eastman House, the Library of Congress and the Museum of Modern Art present ; curator, Bruce Posner ; DVD producer, David Shepard.
Publisher:
Image Entertainment,
Copyright Date:
2005
Description:
1 videodisc (155 min.) : silent, sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
DVD-ROM accessible features: filmmaker biographies and photo gallery, acknowledgements, sponsors, film note authors, credits, musicians.
Contents:
1933 (15 min.) -- Dawn to dawn / Josef Berne, Seymour Stern, 1910 (16 min.) -- Suspense / Lois Weber, Philips Smalley for Rex Pictures, 1913 (10 min.) -- Moonland / Neil McGuire, William A. O'Connor, c. 1921-26 (11 min.) -- Lullaby / Boris Deutsch, 1929 (14 min.) -- The bridge / Charles Vidor, 1929 (10 min.) -- Black dawn, also known as Dawn to dawn / Josef Berne, Seymour Stern, 1933 (15 min.) -- Sredni Vashtar by Saki / David Bradley, 1941-43, completed 1959-83 (12 min.). world today : Black Legion / Willard Van Dyke, et al. for Nykino, 1936-37 (6 min.) -- Even-- as you and I / Roger Barlow, Harry Hay, Le Roy Robbins, 1937 (12 min.) -- Object lesson / Christopher Young, 1941 (10 min.) -- Sredni Vashtar by Saki / David Bradley, 1941-43, completed 1959-83 (12 min.).
Summary:
"Early directors D.W. Griffith and Lois Weber develop the radical language of cinema narrative through audience-friendly melodramas made for nickelodeon theaters. Experimental fantasies are depicted in such independent productions as Moonland (c. 1926), Lullaby (1929), and The Bridge (1929-30). Depression era films by socially-conscious filmmakers reshape drama as demonstrated in Josef Berne's brooding Black Dawn (1933) and Strand and Hurwitz's biting Native Land (1937-41) on the labor movement: each pictures a raw reality. Parody and satire find their mark in Theodore Huff's Little Geezer (1932) and Barlow, Hay and Le Roy's Even as You and I (1937). David Bradley's Sredni Vashtar by Saki (1940-43) boasts an inadvertent post-modern attitude"--Container.
Series:
Unseen cinema ; 4
OCLC:
(OCoLC)148115849
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
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.