Avant-Garde experimental cinema of the 1920s and '30s : films from the Raymond Rohauer Collection. [videorecording] : - "Deluxe two-disc edition". - New York : Kino Video, c2005. - 2 videodiscs (387 min.) : si., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.

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).


Experimental films
Short films
Motion pictures--France
Motion pictures--Netherlands
Motion pictures--Germany
Motion pictures--United States

791.4375 / AVA 2005