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Avant-Garde [videorecording] : experimental cinema of the 1920s and '30s : films from the Raymond Rohauer Collection.

Contributor(s): Rohauer, Raymond | Rohauer Collection | Kino International Corporation | Douris Corporation.
Publisher: New York : Kino Video, c2005Edition: "Deluxe two-disc edition".Description: 2 videodiscs (387 min.) : si., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.Subject(s): Experimental films | Short films | Motion pictures -- France | Motion pictures -- Netherlands | Motion pictures -- Germany | Motion pictures -- United StatesDDC classification: 791.4375
Contents:
Anémic cinéma -- Autumn fire -- Ballet méchanique -- Coquille et le clergyman -- Emak-Bakia -- Étoile de mer -- Even -- as you and I -- Glace à trois faces -- H2O -- Hearts of age -- Life and death of 9413, a Hollywood extra -- Lot in Sodom -- Manhatta -- Ménilmontant -- Mystères du château du Dé -- Regen -- Retour à la raison -- Rhythmus 21 -- Romance sentimentale -- Symphonie diagonale -- Tempestaire -- Überfall -- Vampire -- Vormittagsspuk.
Summary: Twenty-four short films selected from the avant garde movement of the 1920s and 30s, including works by Man Ray, Hans Richter, Marcel Duchamp, Watson & Webber, Fernand Léger, Joris Ivens, Dimitri Kirsanoff, Jean Epstein and Orson Welles
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791.4375 AVA 2005 (Browse shelf) Set of 2 DVDs 1 Available SLASx,05000,01,GR 1000525080

Special features include film notes by film critic/historian Elliott Stein, optional English subtitles (on selected films), dual-layer RSDL edition for optimal image quality.

Originally produced individually as silent motion pictures in France, the Netherlands, Germany, and the United States from 1921-1939.

"Licensed by the Douris Corp."--Disc surface

Anémic cinéma -- Autumn fire -- Ballet méchanique -- Coquille et le clergyman -- Emak-Bakia -- Étoile de mer -- Even -- as you and I -- Glace à trois faces -- H2O -- Hearts of age -- Life and death of 9413, a Hollywood extra -- Lot in Sodom -- Manhatta -- Ménilmontant -- Mystères du château du Dé -- Regen -- Retour à la raison -- Rhythmus 21 -- Romance sentimentale -- Symphonie diagonale -- Tempestaire -- Überfall -- Vampire -- Vormittagsspuk.

Twenty-four short films selected from the avant garde movement of the 1920s and 30s, including works by Man Ray, Hans Richter, Marcel Duchamp, Watson & Webber, Fernand Léger, Joris Ivens, Dimitri Kirsanoff, Jean Epstein and Orson Welles

DVD, NTSC.

Chiefly silent, with music (original or added); some films with French or English dialog or Russian singing ; credits and intertitles in Dutch, English, French, and German ; optional subtitles in English (on selected films).