Captain Nissen Going Through Whirlpool Rapids, Niagara Falls (1901)

类型: 纪录片 / 短片
制片国家/地区: 美国
片长: 2 分钟
又名: 早期美国先锋电影（1894-1941）
IMDb: tt0360454

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　　一共7张碟：
　　
　　Disk 1: THE MECHANIZED EYE
　　Experiments in Technique and Form
　　
　　The dynamic qualities of motion pictures are explored by cameramen and filmmakers through novel experiments in technique and form. Early cinematographers James White, "Billy" Bitzer, and Frederick Armitage display experimental shooting styles that wowed audiences. Other independent companies further im... (展开全部) 　　一共7张碟：
　　
　　Disk 1: THE MECHANIZED EYE
　　Experiments in Technique and Form
　　
　　The dynamic qualities of motion pictures are explored by cameramen and filmmakers through novel experiments in technique and form. Early cinematographers James White, "Billy" Bitzer, and Frederick Armitage display experimental shooting styles that wowed audiences. Other independent companies further image manipulation through creative staging, editing, and printing, such as a stunning three-screen film that predates Gance's Napoleon. Experiments by photographer Walker Evans, painter Emlen Etting, musician Jerome Hill, and the film collectives Nykino and Artkino record the world in a continual process of flux. A most extreme approach is realized by Henwar Rodakiewicz with Portrait of a Young Man (1925-31), a monumental study of natural and abstract motions.
　　
　　18 FILMS:
　　5 Paris Exposition Films (1900)-James White
　　Eiffel Tower from Trocadero Palace (1900)
　　Palace of Electricity (1900)
　　Champs de Mars (1900)
　　Panorama of Eiffel Tower (1900)
　　Scene from Elevator Ascending Eiffel Tower (1900)
　　Captain Nissen Going through Whirpool Rapids, Niagra Falls (1901)-creators unknown
　　Down the Hudson (1903)-Frederick Armitage & A.E. Weed
　　The Ghost Train (1903)-creators unknown
　　Westinghouse Works, Panorama View Street Car Motor Room (1904)-G.W. "Billy" Bitzer
　　In Youth, Beside the Lonely Sea (c. 1924-25)-creators unknown
　　Melody on Parade (c. 1936)-creators unknown
　　La Cartomancienne (The Fortune Teller) (1932)-Jerome Hill
　　Pie in the Sky (1934-35)-Nykino: Elia Kazan, Ralph Steiner & Irving Lerner
　　Travel Notes (1932)-Walker Evans
　　Oil: A Symphony in Motion (1930-33)-Artkino: M.G. MacPherson & Jean Michelson
　　Poem 8 (1932-33)-Emlen Etting
　　Storm (1941-43)-Paul Burnford
　　Portrait of a Young Man (1925-31)-Henwar Rodakiewicz
　　
　　
　　Disk 2: THE DEVIL'S PLAYTHING
　　American Surrealism
　　
　　Edwin S. Porter and other early filmmakers used bizarre sets, fantastic costumes, and magic lantern tricks to illuminate their fantasy films. American parody supplied Douglas Fairbanks with enough unusual material to produce the truly surreal When the Clouds Roll By (1919). The expressionistic Cabinet of Dr. Calagari (1919) influenced American sensibilities throughout the 1920s as seen in Beggar of Horseback (1925), The Life and Death of 9413-A Hollywood Extra (1927) and The Telltale Heart (1928). The emphasis shifted when amateurs J.S. Watson, Jr., Joseph Cornell, and Orson Welles crafted a unique variety of American surrealism on film unfettered by European concerns.
　　
　　17 FILMS:
　　Jack and the Beanstalk (1902)-Edwin S. Porter
　　Dream of a Rarebit Fiend (1906)-Edwin S. Porter
　　The Thieving Hand (1907)-creator unknown, Vitagraph
　　Impossible Convicts (1905)-G.W. "Billy" Bitzer
　　When the Clouds Roll By (1919)-Douglas Fairbanks & Victor Fleming (excerpt)
　　Beggar on Horseback (1925)-James Cruze (excerpt)
　　The Fall of the House of Usher (1926-27)-J.S. Watson, Jr. & Melville Webber
　　The Life and Death of 9413: A Hollywood Extra (1927)- Robert Florey & Slavko Vorkapich
　　The Love of Zero (1928)-Robert Florey & William Cameron Menzies
　　The Telltale Heart (1928)-Charles Klein
　　Tomatos Another Day (1930/1933)-J.S. Watson, Jr. & Alec Wilder
　　The Hearts of Age (1934)- William Vance & Orson Welles
　　Unreal News Reels (c. 1926)-Weiss Artclass Comedies (excerpt)
　　The Children's Jury (c. 1938)-attributed Joseph Cornell
　　Thimble Theater (c. 1938)-Joseph Cornell
　　Carousel: Animal Opera (c. 1938)-Joseph Cornell
　　Jack's Dream (c. 1938)-Joseph Cornell
　　
　　
　　Disk 3: LIGHT RHYTHMS
　　Music and Abstraction
　　
　　The rhythmic elements of cinema are explored by artists and filmmakers fascinated by the abstract qualities of light. The American authors of avant-garde classics Le Retour ａ la raison (1923), Ballet mｅcanique (1923-24), Anｅmic cinｅma (1926), and Une Nuit sur le Mont Chauve (1934), are finally acknowledged for their seminal artistic achievements made in Europe. Pioneer abstract films by Ralph Steiner, Mary Ellen Bute, Douglass Crockwell, Dwinnell Grant, and George Morris are compared and contrasted with Hollywood montages created by Ernst Lubitsch, Slavko Vorkapich, and Busby Berkeley. For the first time on video, composer George Antheil's original 1924 score accompanies Fernand Lｅger and Dudley Murphy's film Ballet mｅcanique, a truly avant-garde cacophony of image and sound.
　　
　　29 FILMS:
　　Le Retour ａ la raison (1923)-Man Ray
　　Ballet mｅcanique (1923-24)-Fernand Lｅger & Dudley Murphy
　　Anｅmic cinｅma (1924-26)-Rrose Sｅlavy (Marcel Duchamp)
　　Looney Lens: Anamorphic People (1927)-Al Brick
　　Out of the Melting Pot (1927)-W.J. Ganz Studio
　　H20 (1929)-Ralph Steiner
　　Surf and Seaweed (1929-30)-Ralph Steiner
　　7 Vorkapich Montage Sequences (1928-37)-Slavko Vorkapich
　　The Furies (1934)
　　Skyline Dance (1928)
　　Money Machine (1929)
　　Prohibition (1929)
　　The Firefly- Vorkapich edit (1937)
　　The Firefly-MGM release version (1937)
　　Maytime (1937)
　　So This Is Paris (1926)-Ernst Lubitsch (excerpt)
　　Light Rhythms (1930)-Francis Bruguiｅre & Oswell Blakeston
　　Une Nuit sur le Mont Chauve (Night on Bald Mountain) (1934)-Alexandre Alexeieff & Claire Parker
　　Rhythm in Light (1934)-Mary Ellen Bute, Ted Nemeth & Melville Webber
　　Synchromy No. 2 (1936)-Mary Ellen Bute & Ted Nemeth
　　Parabola (1937)-Mary Ellen Bute & Ted Nemeth
　　Footlight Parade - "By a Waterfall" (1933)-Busby Berkeley
　　Glen Falls Sequence (1937-46)-Douglass Crockwell
　　Simple Destiny Abstractions (1937-40)-Douglass Crockwell
　　Abstract Movies (1937-47)-George L.K. Morris
　　Scherzo (1939)-Norman McLaren
　　Themis (1940)-Dwinell Grant
　　Contrathemis (1941)-Dwinell Grant
　　1941 (1941)-Francis Lee
　　Moods of the Sea (1940-42)-Slavko Vorkapich & John Hoffman
　　
　　
　　Disk 4: INVERTED NARRATIVES
　　New Directions in Story-Telling
　　
　　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): 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.
　　
　　12 FILMS:
　　The House with Closed Shutters (1910)-D.W. Griffith & G.W. "Billy" Bitzer
　　Suspense (1913)-Lois Weber & Philips Smalley
　　Moonland (c. 1926)-Neil McQuire & William A. O'Connor
　　Lullaby (1929)-Boris Deutsch
　　The Bridge (1929-30)-Charles Vidor
　　Little Geezer (1932)-Theodore Huff
　　Black Dawn (1933)-Josef Berne & Seymour Stern
　　Native Land (1937-41)-Frontier Films: Leo Hurwitz & Paul Strand (excerpt)
　　Black Legion (1936-7)-Nykino: Ralph Steiner & Willard Van Dyke
　　Even As You and I (1937)-Roger Barlow, Harry Hay & Le Roy Robbins
　　Object Lesson (1941)-Christoher Young
　　"Sredni Vashtar" by Saki (1940-43)-David Bradley
　　
　　
　　Disk 5: PICTURING A METROPOLIS
　　New York City Unveiled
　　Only Unseen Cinema DVD released as a SINGLE
　　
　　The DVD depicts dynamic images of New York City and scenes of New Yorkers among the skyscrapers, streets, and night life of America's greatest city during a half century of progress, while at the same time showing changes in film style and the history of cinema experiments. Avant-garde moments pop up in the most unlikely of places including turn-of-the-twentieth-century actualities, commercial and radical newsreels, and Busby Berkeley's "Lullaby of Broadway" from Gold Diggers of 1935. Included are spectacular prints of Charles Sheeler and Paul Strand's Manhatta (1921), Robert Flaherty's Twenty-four-Dollar Island (c. 1926), Robert Florey's Skyscraper Symphony (1929), Jay Leyda's A Bronx Morning (1931), and Rudy Burckhardt's Pursuit of Happiness (1940).
　　
　　26 FILMS:
　　The Blizzard (1899)-creators unknown
　　Lower Broadway (1902)-Robert K. Bonine
　　Beginning of a Skyscraper (1902)-Robert K. Bonine
　　Panorama from Times Building, New York (1905)-Wallace McCutcheon
　　Skyscrapers of NYC from North River (1903)-J.B. Smith
　　Panorama from Tower of the Brooklyn Bridge (1903)-G.W. "Billy" Bitzer
　　Building Up and Demolishing the Star Theatre (1902)-Frederick Armitage
　　Coney Island at Night (1905)-Edwin S. Porter
　　Interior New York Subway 14th Street to 42nd Street (1905)-G.W. "Billy" Bitzer
　　Seeing New York by Yacht (1902)-Frederick Armitage & A.E. Weed
　　2 Looney Lens: Split Skyscrapers (1924) and Tenth Avenue, NYC (1924)-Al Brick
　　4 Scenes from Ford Educational Weekly (1916-24)-creators unknown
　　Manhatta (1921)-Charles Sheeler & Paul Strand
　　Twentyfour-Dollar Island (c. 1926)-Robert Flaherty
　　Skyscraper Symphony (1929)-Robert Florey
　　Manhattan Medley (1931)-Bonney Powell
　　A Bronx Morning (1931)-Jay Leyda
　　Footnote to Fact (1933)-Lewis Jacobs
　　Seeing the World (1937)-Rudy Burckhardt
　　Pursuit of Hapiness (1940)-Rudy Burckhardt
　　Gold Diggers of 1935 - "Lullaby of Broadway" (1935)-Busby Berkeley (excerpt)
　　Autumn Fire (1930-33)-Herman Weinberg
　　
　　
　　Disk 6: THE AMATEUR AS AUTEUR
　　Discovering Paradise in Pictures
　　
　　These home-made films incorporate avant-garde strategies and techniques to achieve a true sense of cinematic intimacy. Glimpses of life caught unawares are found in the home movies of Elizabeth Woodman Wright, Archie Stewart, Frank Stauffacher, and John C. Hecker. Poetic lyricism finds a voice in city symphonies: Lynn Riggs and James Hughes' A Day in Santa Fe (1931) and Rudy Burckhardt's Haiti (1938). Professionally minded films, like Theodore Case's sound tests (c. 1925) and Lewis Jacobs' Tree Trunk to Head (1938), operate from a similar home-spun perspective of sincerity. Joseph Cornell offers an enigmatic but lovely homage to childhood with Children's Trilogy (c. 1938).
　　
　　20 FILMS:
　　7 Case Sound Tests (c. 1924-25)-Theodore Case & Earl Sponable
　　Windy Ledge Farm (c. 1929-34)-Elizabeth Woodman Wright
　　A Day in Santa Fe (1931)-Lynn Riggs & James Hughes
　　4 Stewart Family Home Movies (c. 1935-39)-Archie Stewart
　　Children's Party (c. 1938)-Joseph Cornell
　　Cotillion (c. 1938)-Joseph Cornell
　　The Midnight Party (c. 1938)-Joseph Cornell
　　Haiti (1938)-Rudy Burckhardt
　　Tree Trunk to Head (1938)-Lewis Jacobs
　　Bicycle Polo at San Mateo (1940-42)-Frank Stauffacher
　　1126 Dewey Avenue, Apt. 207 (1939)-John C. Hecker
　　
　　
　　Disk 7: VIVA LA DANCE
　　The Beginnings of Cinｅ-Dance
　　
　　Dance and film have shared the aspiration to creatively sculpt motion and time. Some of the first films ever made featured Annabelle's skirt dance, hand-painted in glowing colors. Isadora Duncan and Ruth St. Denis' innovations found their way into Diana the Huntress (1916) and The Soul of the Cypress (1920). Highly cinematic renditions of dance evolved in Stella Simon's Hände (1928), Hector Hoppin's Joie de vivre (1934), and Busby Berkeley's "Don't Say Goodnight" from Wonder Bar (1934). In counterpoint, cinｅ-dances by Mary Ellen Bute, Douglass Crockwell, Oskar Fischinger, Norman McLaren, Ralph Steiner, and Slavko Vorkapich dispensed with actual dancers in favor of color, shape, line, and form choreographed into abstract light-play.
　　
　　33 FILMS:
　　7 Annabelle Dances and Dances (1894-1897)-W.K.L. Dickson, William Heise & James White
　　Davy Jones' Locker (1900)-Frederick Armitage
　　Neptune's Daughters (1900)-Frederick Armitage
　　A Nymph of the Waves (1900)-Frederick Armitage
　　Diana the Huntress (1916)-Charles Allen & Francis Trevelyan Miller (excerpt)
　　The Soul of the Cypress (1920)-Dudley Murphy
　　Looney Lens: Pas de deux (1924)-Al Brick
　　Hände: Das Leben und die Liebe eines Zärtlichen Geschlechts (Hands: The Life and Loves of the Gentler Sex) (1928)-Stella Simon & Miklos Bandy
　　Mechanical Principles (1930)-Ralph Steiner
　　Tilly Losch in Her Dance of the Hands (c. 1930-33)-Norman Bel Geddes
　　2 Eisenstein's Mexican Footage (1931)-Sergei Eisenstein (excerpts)
　　Oramunde (1933)-Emlen Etting
　　Hands (1934)-Ralph Steiner & Willard Van Dyke
　　Joie de vivre (1934)-Anthony Gross & Hector Hoppin
　　Wonder Bar: "Don't Say Goodnight" (1934)-Busby Berkeley (excerpt)
　　Dada (1936)-Mary Ellen Bute & Ted Nemeth
　　Escape (1938)-Mary Ellen Bute & Ted Nemeth
　　An Optical Poem (1938)-Oskar Fischinger
　　Abstract Experiment in Kodachrome (c. 1940s)-Slavko Vorpapich
　　NBC Valentine Greeting (1939-40)-Norman McLaren
　　Stars and Stripes (1940)-Norman McLaren
　　Tarantella (1940)-Mary Ellen Bute, Ted Nemeth & Norman McLaren
　　Spook Sport (1940)-Mary Ellen Bute, Ted Nemeth & Norman McLaren
　　Danse Macabre (1922)-Dudley Murphy
　　Peer Gynt (1941)-David Bradley, starring Charlton Heston (excerpt)
　　Introspection (1941/46)-Sara Kathryn Arledge
　　
　　
　　SERIES CATALOG
　　"Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant-Garde Film 1893-1941"
　　
　　Unseen Cinema catalog features 30 essays, articles, and documents and 65 annotated photographs. Authors are scholars, critics, and filmmakers whose knowledge of the early avant-garde derives from either direct experience as a participant or years of scholarly research. Many hard-to-find photographs and sources detail the first decades of American experimental cinema in the United States and abroad.
　　
　　Table of Contents
　　Foreword-Jan-Christopher Horak
　　Words and Pictures-annotated photographs
　　1. The Grand Experiment-Bruce Posner
　　2. Hollywood Extras: One Tradition of `Avant-Garde' Film in Los Angeles- David James
　　3. Emlen Etting: Three Films-R. Bruce Elder
　　4. The Attraction of Nature in Early Cinema-Scott MacDonald
　　5. "Le Retour ａ la raison": Hidden Meaning-Deke Dusinberre
　　6. Music for "Ballet Mｅcanique": 90s Technology Realizes a 20s Vision-Paul D. Lehrman
　　7. Sara Kathryn Arledge: "Introspection"-Terry Cannon
　　8. Busby Berkeley and America's Pioneer Abstract Filmmakers-Cecile Starr
　　9. Joseph Cornell: An Exploration of Sources-Lynda Roscoe Hartigan
　　10. Discussing D.W. Griffith-Jay Leyda
　　11. Maurice Tourneur and "The Bluebird"-Jan-Christopher Horak
　　12. Diva of Decadence: "Salome"-Kenneth Anger
　　13. W.K.L. Dickson: Pioneer Filmmaker-Paul Spehr
　　14. Elizabeth Woodman Wright: "Windy Ledge Farm"-Karan Sheldon & Bruce Posner
　　15. Robert Florey and the Hollywood Avant-Garde-Brian Taves
　　16. Working on "The City"-Henwar Rodakiewicz
　　17. Warren Newcombe: "The Enchanted City"-Stephen J. Schneider
　　18. My Films-J.S. Watson, Jr.
　　19. J.S. Watson, Jr.: "Nass River Indians"-Lynda Jessup
　　20. ...And Melville Webber-Dale Davis
　　21. Making "Twenty-four Dollar Island"-Robert Flaherty
　　22. Avant-Garde Production in America-Lewis Jacobs (excerpts)
　　23. Rutherford Boyd and "Parabola"-Douglas Dreishpoon
　　24. Notes on New Cinema of 1929 and 1930-Harry Alan Potamkin
　　25. Herman G. Weinberg: "Autumn Fire"-Robert A. Haller
　　26. Unanswered Questions: Eisenstein's "Quｅ Viva Mｅxico!"-Herman G. Weinberg
　　27. My First Movie and "The Hearts of Age"-Orson Welles interviewed by Peter Bogdanovich
　　28. Highway 66: Montage Notes for a Documentary Film-Lewis Jacobs
　　29. The American Vanguard: Flux and Experience-R. Bruce Elder
　　30. New Artistic Process-Claire Parker and Alexandre Alexeieff