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UNSEEN CINEMA 5: Picturing a Metropolis: New York City Unveiled, Manhattan Medley
directed by Bonney Powell, fl. 1931, in UNSEEN CINEMA 5: Picturing a Metropolis: New York City Unveiled (Filmmakers Showcase, 1931), 10 mins
PICTURING A METROPOLIS is part of the film retrospective UNSEEN CINEMA that explores long-forgotten American experimental cinema. The film was made more or less on a hobby basis by a man named Bonney Powell, who was a cameraman/editor for Fox Movietone News. —DAVID SHEPARDOne of the most stylish of the 30s’ N...
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directed by Bonney Powell, fl. 1931, in UNSEEN CINEMA 5: Picturing a Metropolis: New York City Unveiled (Filmmakers Showcase, 1931), 10 mins
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PICTURING A METROPOLIS is part of the film retrospective UNSEEN CINEMA that explores long-forgotten American experimental cinema. The film was made more or less on a hobby basis by a man named Bonney Powell, who was a cameraman/editor for Fox Movietone News. —DAVID SHEPARDOne of the most stylish of the 30s’ New York City newsreel symphonies, the ever-popular “Manhattan Medley” was most probably a silent collection of shots with music add...
PICTURING A METROPOLIS is part of the film retrospective UNSEEN CINEMA that explores long-forgotten American experimental cinema. The film was made more or less on a hobby basis by a man named Bonney Powell, who was a cameraman/editor for Fox Movietone News. —DAVID SHEPARDOne of the most stylish of the 30s’ New York City newsreel symphonies, the ever-popular “Manhattan Medley” was most probably a silent collection of shots with music added by the distributor. The roots of the form were fostered by the radical Film and Photo League, who favored a streetwise approach to cinematography similar to that used by documentary still photographers. The dusk-to-dawn time frame provided a container to display the dynamic views of city life. —BRUCE POSNER Bonney Powell, a cameraman and editor for Fox Movietone News, made “Manhattan Medley” and companion films “Broadway By Day” and “Meet Me Down at Coney Island” more or less on a hobby basis. Powell was sent by Fox to film Japan’s war in China and was killed in action. —DAVID SHEPARD 35mm 1.20:1 black and white sound 10:04 minutes
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Bonney Powell, fl. 1931
Date Published / Released
1931-01-29
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UNSEEN CINEMA 5: Picturing a Metropolis: New York City Unveiled
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UNSEEN CINEMA 5: Picturing a Metropolis: New York City Unveiled, A Bronx Morning
directed by Jay Leyda, 1910-1988, in UNSEEN CINEMA 5: Picturing a Metropolis: New York City Unveiled (Filmmakers Showcase, 1931), 15 mins
PICTURING A METROPOLIS is part of the film retrospective UNSEEN CINEMA that explores long-forgotten American experimental cinema. Leyda’s first film, shot silent at a time when sound flooded American movie theaters, is a city symphony on an intimate scale, not of a metropolis like Berlin or Moscow but of a New...
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directed by Jay Leyda, 1910-1988, in UNSEEN CINEMA 5: Picturing a Metropolis: New York City Unveiled (Filmmakers Showcase, 1931), 15 mins
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PICTURING A METROPOLIS is part of the film retrospective UNSEEN CINEMA that explores long-forgotten American experimental cinema. Leyda’s first film, shot silent at a time when sound flooded American movie theaters, is a city symphony on an intimate scale, not of a metropolis like Berlin or Moscow but of a New York borough. Leyda’s camera affectionately focuses on children, streets, shops, and shoppers. — ROBERT A. HALLER In 1929, Jay Ley...
PICTURING A METROPOLIS is part of the film retrospective UNSEEN CINEMA that explores long-forgotten American experimental cinema. Leyda’s first film, shot silent at a time when sound flooded American movie theaters, is a city symphony on an intimate scale, not of a metropolis like Berlin or Moscow but of a New York borough. Leyda’s camera affectionately focuses on children, streets, shops, and shoppers. — ROBERT A. HALLER In 1929, Jay Leyda moved from Ohio to New York City to work as an assistant for photographer/filmmaker Ralph Steiner. His short film “A Bronx Morning” earned Leyda a filmmaking fellowship with Sergei Eisenstein at VGIK in Moscow (1933-36) and led to his editing and translating Eisenstein’s major writings. Returning to New York, Leyda worked at The Museum of Modern Art, began a study of D.W. Griffith, and assisted on many late ‘30s documentaries. Best known for his histories of Soviet and Chinese films, he was also a scholar of Melville, Mussorgsky, and Emily Dickinson. —ARAM BOYAJIAN / ROBERT A. HALLER 35mm 1.22:1 black and white silent with music 20fps 14:01 minutes
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Jay Leyda, 1910-1988
Date Published / Released
1931
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UNSEEN CINEMA 5: Picturing a Metropolis: New York City Unveiled
Topic / Theme
City life, Business districts, Neighborhoods, Avant-garde
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UNSEEN CINEMA 5: Picturing a Metropolis: New York City Unveiled, Autumn Fire
directed by Herman G. Weinberg, 1908-1983, in UNSEEN CINEMA 5: Picturing a Metropolis: New York City Unveiled (Filmmakers Showcase, 1931), 20 mins
PICTURING A METROPOLIS is part of the film retrospective UNSEEN CINEMA that explores long-forgotten American experimental cinema. Weinberg’s second personal film is a poetic evocation of an absent lover as imagined by the central female character, whom Weinberg loved and sought to marry. Very sophisticated edit...
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directed by Herman G. Weinberg, 1908-1983, in UNSEEN CINEMA 5: Picturing a Metropolis: New York City Unveiled (Filmmakers Showcase, 1931), 20 mins
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PICTURING A METROPOLIS is part of the film retrospective UNSEEN CINEMA that explores long-forgotten American experimental cinema. Weinberg’s second personal film is a poetic evocation of an absent lover as imagined by the central female character, whom Weinberg loved and sought to marry. Very sophisticated editing adds to the misty cinematography. Happily, actress Erna Bergman accepted Weinberg’s proposal soon after she saw the film. — ROB...
PICTURING A METROPOLIS is part of the film retrospective UNSEEN CINEMA that explores long-forgotten American experimental cinema. Weinberg’s second personal film is a poetic evocation of an absent lover as imagined by the central female character, whom Weinberg loved and sought to marry. Very sophisticated editing adds to the misty cinematography. Happily, actress Erna Bergman accepted Weinberg’s proposal soon after she saw the film. — ROBERT A. HALLERWeinberg was an ardent cineaste whose infectious enthusiasms bled over into everything he did. In relationship to the early American avant-garde film, Weinberg coined a most perfect phrase, “a lover of cinema,” to describe the professional and amateur film experimentalists during the 1920s and 1930s. Later in 1968 Jonas Mekas would express his admiration for Weinberg, who “writes with so much love for the movies that…you go crazy thinking about where you are going to see those movies, and when." —BRUCE POSNER Born in East Harlem, trained as a violinist, Herman G. Weinberg led a silent film orchestra, then prepared subtitles for foreign films. In the 1930s he made films, and later reconstructed with stills, in book form, Von Stroheim's “Greed “and “The Wedding March”. For decades, he wrote a column “Coffee, Brandy and Cigars.” —ROBERT A. HALLER 16mm from 1.33:1 black and white silent with music 18fps 19:40 minutes
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Rodney Sauer, fl. 1998-2010
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Herman G. Weinberg, 1908-1983
Date Published / Released
1931
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UNSEEN CINEMA 5: Picturing a Metropolis: New York City Unveiled
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UNSEEN CINEMA 5: Picturing a Metropolis: New York City Unveiled, Footnote to Fact
directed by Lewis Jacobs, 1906-1997, in UNSEEN CINEMA 5: Picturing a Metropolis: New York City Unveiled (Filmmakers Showcase, 1933), 9 mins
PICTURING A METROPOLIS is part of the film retrospective UNSEEN CINEMA that explores long-forgotten American experimental cinema. This is one part of a proposed four-part film intended to document the Great Depression that was to be called “As I Walk”. The other parts were never completed
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directed by Lewis Jacobs, 1906-1997, in UNSEEN CINEMA 5: Picturing a Metropolis: New York City Unveiled (Filmmakers Showcase, 1933), 9 mins
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PICTURING A METROPOLIS is part of the film retrospective UNSEEN CINEMA that explores long-forgotten American experimental cinema. This is one part of a proposed four-part film intended to document the Great Depression that was to be called “As I Walk”. The other parts were never completed
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Film
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Rodney Sauer, fl. 1998-2010
Author / Creator
Lewis Jacobs, 1906-1997
Date Published / Released
1933
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UNSEEN CINEMA 5: Picturing a Metropolis: New York City Unveiled, "Seeing the World", Part One: A Visit to New York, N.Y.
directed by Rudy Burckhardt, 1914-1999, in UNSEEN CINEMA 5: Picturing a Metropolis: New York City Unveiled (Filmmakers Showcase, 1937), 11 mins
PICTURING A METROPOLIS is part of the film retrospective UNSEEN CINEMA that explores long-forgotten American experimental cinema. The film opens as a sightseeing portrait of New York, with lively narration taking the viewer aboard the New York elevated and subway trains. Then the view from the windows becomes sli...
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directed by Rudy Burckhardt, 1914-1999, in UNSEEN CINEMA 5: Picturing a Metropolis: New York City Unveiled (Filmmakers Showcase, 1937), 11 mins
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PICTURING A METROPOLIS is part of the film retrospective UNSEEN CINEMA that explores long-forgotten American experimental cinema. The film opens as a sightseeing portrait of New York, with lively narration taking the viewer aboard the New York elevated and subway trains. Then the view from the windows becomes slightly abstracted, the voice of the commentator becomes uncertain, and tension arises through curious acted scenes of conflict. —R. BR...
PICTURING A METROPOLIS is part of the film retrospective UNSEEN CINEMA that explores long-forgotten American experimental cinema. The film opens as a sightseeing portrait of New York, with lively narration taking the viewer aboard the New York elevated and subway trains. Then the view from the windows becomes slightly abstracted, the voice of the commentator becomes uncertain, and tension arises through curious acted scenes of conflict. —R. BRUCE ELDERBurckhardt rolled together a lighthearted comedy and a NYC travelogue into one short film. At the time his partner, poet Edwin Denby was working with Orson Welles on the play “Horse Eats Hat”, and after hours Joseph Cotton and Virginia Nicholson, Welles’ wife, moonlighted for Burckhardt. Originally the recorded narration was spoken live at screenings, and the new narration read here by Donnie Brooke Alderson. The film boasts the earliest appearance on film of actor Joseph Cotton. —BRUCE POSNER Burckhardt was best known as a photographer and filmmaker whose primary subject was the New York cityscape: its people, architecture, fleeting details, and ceaseless vitality. He approached films as if they were as easily and intuitively made as photographs, with a distinctive lightness of touch and a grasp of the medium’s different possibilities. —ROBERTA SMITH 16mm 1.37:1 black and white silent sound 10:20 minutes
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Rudy Burckhardt, 1914-1999
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Rudy Burckhardt, 1914-1999
Date Published / Released
1937
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UNSEEN CINEMA 5: Picturing a Metropolis: New York City Unveiled
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UNSEEN CINEMA 5: Picturing a Metropolis: New York City Unveiled, "The Industiral City", Pittsburgh, sequence from The City (1939) [3-film co...
directed by Ralph Steiner, 1899-1986 and Willard Van Dyke, 1906-1986, in UNSEEN CINEMA 5: Picturing a Metropolis: New York City Unveiled (Filmmakers Showcase, 1939), 17 mins
PICTURING A METROPOLIS is part of the film retrospective UNSEEN CINEMA that explores long-forgotten American experimental cinema. The poetic commentary addresses the social problems of modern life circa 1939 in three distinct urban environments: Pittsburgh steel mills, Manhattan city streets, and a New York/New J...
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directed by Ralph Steiner, 1899-1986 and Willard Van Dyke, 1906-1986, in UNSEEN CINEMA 5: Picturing a Metropolis: New York City Unveiled (Filmmakers Showcase, 1939), 17 mins
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PICTURING A METROPOLIS is part of the film retrospective UNSEEN CINEMA that explores long-forgotten American experimental cinema. The poetic commentary addresses the social problems of modern life circa 1939 in three distinct urban environments: Pittsburgh steel mills, Manhattan city streets, and a New York/New Jersey weekend traffic jam. The exquisite cinematography and editing are greatly enhanced by Aaron Copland’s original score. “The Ci...
PICTURING A METROPOLIS is part of the film retrospective UNSEEN CINEMA that explores long-forgotten American experimental cinema. The poetic commentary addresses the social problems of modern life circa 1939 in three distinct urban environments: Pittsburgh steel mills, Manhattan city streets, and a New York/New Jersey weekend traffic jam. The exquisite cinematography and editing are greatly enhanced by Aaron Copland’s original score. “The City” played exclusively at the 1939-40 World’s Fair in Flushing Meadows, New York to become one of the most widely seen and discussed documentary films before the advent of television. —BRUCE POSNER Ralph Steiner, educated at Dartmouth, became a successful commercial and much honored fine art photographer. He made perhaps the first American abstract film, “H2O” (1929), following it with other experiments, some political in nature, some in Hollywood. Steiner also photographed with Paul Strand “The Plow That Broke the Plains” (1936) and co-directed and photographed “The City” (1939) with Willard Van Dyke and Henwar Rodakiewicz. —ROBERT A. HALLER Willard Van Dyke, a photographer by age 12, formed in 1932 with Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, and Imogen Cunningham the pivotal West Coast photography group f/64. Moving East, he became a noted documentary film-maker working closely with Pare Lorentz and Ralph Steiner among others. Hands may be his first completed film. – ROBERT A. HALLER Henwar Rodakiewicz, from the mid-1920s when he made “Portrait of a Young Man” until his innovative experiments in TV documentary, remained in the forefront of independent American filmmaking. As a writer, editor, and director, he was celebrated for exploiting the beauty inherent in his material and for his uncompromising honesty. —IRVING JACOBYAaron Copland, one of America’s most beloved and accomplished composers, played a crucial role in the coming of age of American music. A conductor, music critic, and teacher who wrote clearly about music, Copland composed some of the twentieth century’s most familiar works, “Billy the Kid”, “Rodeo”, “Appalachian Spring", and “Fanfare for the Common Man”. —JOHN ROCKWELL SEQUENCES FROM THE CITY (1939) - 3 FILM COMPILATION109 00:00 "THE INDUSTIRAL CITY", PITTSBURGH (3:26 minutes)110 04:31 "THE METROPOLIS", NEW YORK CITY (9:35 minutes)111 14:06 "THE HIGHWAY", NEW JERSEY (2:23 minutes) 35mm 1.37:1 black and white sound 16:34 minutes. Production: American Documentary Films, Inc.
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Morris Carnovsky, 1897-1992
Author / Creator
Ralph Steiner, 1899-1986, Willard Van Dyke, 1906-1986
Date Published / Released
1939
Publisher
Filmmakers Showcase
Series
UNSEEN CINEMA 5: Picturing a Metropolis: New York City Unveiled
Speaker / Narrator
Morris Carnovsky, 1897-1992
Topic / Theme
Social problems, Urban life
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UNSEEN CINEMA 5: Picturing a Metropolis: New York City Unveiled, The Pursuit of Happiness
directed by Rudy Burckhardt, 1914-1999, in UNSEEN CINEMA 5: Picturing a Metropolis: New York City Unveiled (Filmmakers Showcase, 1940), 9 mins
PICTURING A METROPOLIS is part of the film retrospective UNSEEN CINEMA that explores long-forgotten American experimental cinema. Photographer Rudy Burckhardt shows us the city as a place for marvelous moments with a focus on the ebb and flow of people rushing about Manhattan. As in his still photographs, Burckha...
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directed by Rudy Burckhardt, 1914-1999, in UNSEEN CINEMA 5: Picturing a Metropolis: New York City Unveiled (Filmmakers Showcase, 1940), 9 mins
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PICTURING A METROPOLIS is part of the film retrospective UNSEEN CINEMA that explores long-forgotten American experimental cinema. Photographer Rudy Burckhardt shows us the city as a place for marvelous moments with a focus on the ebb and flow of people rushing about Manhattan. As in his still photographs, Burckhardt finds quiet places within this mass of ever-busy humanity. Equally exhilarating is his novel approach to snap images quickly on the...
PICTURING A METROPOLIS is part of the film retrospective UNSEEN CINEMA that explores long-forgotten American experimental cinema. Photographer Rudy Burckhardt shows us the city as a place for marvelous moments with a focus on the ebb and flow of people rushing about Manhattan. As in his still photographs, Burckhardt finds quiet places within this mass of ever-busy humanity. Equally exhilarating is his novel approach to snap images quickly on the run, a method he inaugurated in the early 1940s. In film, he added slow and fast motion, split-screens and superimpositions to his repertory. An exquisite paean dedicated to the crowd and its life on the street. —BRUCE POSNER At 21, Rudy Burckhardt moved from Switzerland to New York City with poet-playwright Edwin Denby. He became an essential participant in the burgeoning modern art scene of painters, musicians, dancers, writers and the like. Taking up photography and filmmaking, Burckhardt “photographed and filmed his friends, including many New York School artists, as well as myriad views of his adopted city” [Roberta Smith] and produced substantial bodies of work in each, blending them together seamlessly in content and style. —BRUCE POSNER 16mm 1.37:1 black and white intenionally silent 16fps 8:23 minutes
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Rudy Burckhardt, 1914-1999
Date Published / Released
1940
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UNSEEN CINEMA 5: Picturing a Metropolis: New York City Unveiled
Topic / Theme
Business districts, City life, Roads, Avant-garde
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![UNSEEN CINEMA 5: Picturing a Metropolis: New York City Unveiled, Building Up and Demolishing the Star Theater, Tricks of the Trade (1901-1905) [4-film compilation]](https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1010889xxx/1010889644/1010889644-size-exact-140x0.jpg "UNSEEN CINEMA 5: Picturing a Metropolis: New York City Unveiled, Building Up and Demolishing the Star Theater, Tricks of the Trade (1901-1905) [4-film compilation]")
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UNSEEN CINEMA 5: Picturing a Metropolis: New York City Unveiled, Building Up and Demolishing the Star Theater, Tricks of the Trade (1901-190...
in UNSEEN CINEMA 5: Picturing a Metropolis: New York City Unveiled (Filmmakers Showcase), 16 mins
PICTURING A METROPOLIS is part of the film retrospective UNSEEN CINEMA that explores long-forgotten American experimental cinema. The demolition of the Star Theater at Thirteenth Street and Broadway was filmed in time-lapse from Biograph’s office across the street. Exposures were made every four minutes during...
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in UNSEEN CINEMA 5: Picturing a Metropolis: New York City Unveiled (Filmmakers Showcase), 16 mins
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PICTURING A METROPOLIS is part of the film retrospective UNSEEN CINEMA that explores long-forgotten American experimental cinema. The demolition of the Star Theater at Thirteenth Street and Broadway was filmed in time-lapse from Biograph’s office across the street. Exposures were made every four minutes during daylight using a specially devised electrical apparatus. Audiences particularly enjoyed it when the film was reversed, showing the buil...
PICTURING A METROPOLIS is part of the film retrospective UNSEEN CINEMA that explores long-forgotten American experimental cinema. The demolition of the Star Theater at Thirteenth Street and Broadway was filmed in time-lapse from Biograph’s office across the street. Exposures were made every four minutes during daylight using a specially devised electrical apparatus. Audiences particularly enjoyed it when the film was reversed, showing the building rising from destruction. — PAUL SPEHR Frederick S. Armitage was an innovative cameraman-director for the American Mutoscope and Biograph Co. (c.1899-1905) and the Edison Company (1909- ?). He made an early attempt to combine film and sound (“A Gay Old Boy”, 1899) and several prototypes “special effects” films featuring innovative cinematography and printing techniques. —PAUL SPEHR TRICKS OF THE TRADE (1901-1905) - 4 FILM COMPILATION92 00:00 BUILDING UP AND DEMOLISHING THE STAR THEATRE (1901, 3:40 minutes)93 03:56 CONEY ISLAND AT NIGHT 1905 (3:18 minutes)94 07:14 INTERIOR N.Y. SUBWAY, 14TH STREET TO 42ND STREET 1905 (5:37 minutes)95 12:51 SEEING NEW YORK HARBOR BY YACHT 1903 (3:19 minutes). The early “straight” views of New York were embellished with many astonishing film experiments. These fantastic visions of the city were shaped by manipulating filmmaking techniques towards the expressive possibilities of the medium. —BRUCE POSNER 35mm 1.33:1 black and white silent with music 18fps 3:40 minutes. Production: American Mutoscope and Biograph Co.
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UNSEEN CINEMA 5: Picturing a Metropolis: New York City Unveiled, The Blizzard, Early Views (1896-1905) [6-film compilation]
in UNSEEN CINEMA 5: Picturing a Metropolis: New York City Unveiled (Filmmakers Showcase), 9 mins
PICTURING A METROPOLIS is part of the film retrospective UNSEEN CINEMA that explores long-forgotten American experimental cinema. A circular panorama, a weather report, and a comic interlude combined in one film. The first two are obvious
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PICTURING A METROPOLIS is part of the film retrospective UNSEEN CINEMA that explores long-forgotten American experimental cinema. A circular panorama, a weather report, and a comic interlude combined in one film. The first two are obvious
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![UNSEEN CINEMA 6: The Amateur as Auteur: Discoving Paradise in Pictures, Microphone Test #1, Case Sound Tests (c. 1924-1925) [7-film compilation]](https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1010889xxx/1010889658/1010889658-size-exact-140x0.jpg "UNSEEN CINEMA 6: The Amateur as Auteur: Discoving Paradise in Pictures, Microphone Test #1, Case Sound Tests (c. 1924-1925) [7-film compilation]")
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UNSEEN CINEMA 6: The Amateur as Auteur: Discoving Paradise in Pictures, Microphone Test #1, Case Sound Tests (c. 1924-1925) [7-film compilat...
directed by Theodore Case, fl. 1924, in UNSEEN CINEMA 6: The Amateur as Auteur: Discoving Paradise in Pictures (Filmmakers Showcase, 1924), 10 mins
AMATEUR AS AUTEUR is part of the film retrospective UNSEEN CINEMA that explores long-forgotten American experimental cinema. An engineering graduate of Yale University, Theodore Case assisted Lee de Forest in developing sound-on-film called “Phonofilm.” Falling out with de Forest, Case and associate E.I. Spon...
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directed by Theodore Case, fl. 1924, in UNSEEN CINEMA 6: The Amateur as Auteur: Discoving Paradise in Pictures (Filmmakers Showcase, 1924), 10 mins
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AMATEUR AS AUTEUR is part of the film retrospective UNSEEN CINEMA that explores long-forgotten American experimental cinema. An engineering graduate of Yale University, Theodore Case assisted Lee de Forest in developing sound-on-film called “Phonofilm.” Falling out with de Forest, Case and associate E.I. Sponable then built a laboratory behind Case’s family home in Auburn, New York, where they developed their own optical sound film system....
AMATEUR AS AUTEUR is part of the film retrospective UNSEEN CINEMA that explores long-forgotten American experimental cinema. An engineering graduate of Yale University, Theodore Case assisted Lee de Forest in developing sound-on-film called “Phonofilm.” Falling out with de Forest, Case and associate E.I. Sponable then built a laboratory behind Case’s family home in Auburn, New York, where they developed their own optical sound film system. Sold to William Fox, it was commercially exploited as “Movietone” with sensational results. —DAVID SHEPARD Theodore Case founded in 1916 the Case Research Lab. A Yale engineering graduate, Case developed sound motion pictures with inventor Lee De Forest, but after a quarrel proceeded independently, eventually mastering sound-on-film. William Fox purchased the Case Research Lab patents and as Fox-Case Corporation ushered in the age of the talkies. —STEPHANIE E. PRZYBYLEK / DAVID SHEPARD TED CASE SOUND TESTS (C. 1924–25) - 7 FILM COMPLIATION 117 00:00 MICROPHONE TEST #1 with Ted Case (1:14 minutes)118 01:47 HARMONICA PLAYER (1:23 minutes) 119 02:37 HARP PLAYER WITH HORN (2:13 minutes)120 04:50 GUS VISER AND HIS SINGING DUCK (1:56 minutes)121 06:46 MICROPHONE TEST #2 close up of Ted Case (1:06 minutes)122 07:52 UKULELE PLAYER “Yes sir that’s my baby now” (1:42 minutes)123 09:34 MICROPHONE TEST #3 with Ted Case in tuxedo (34 seconds) 35mm 1.20:1 black and white sound 10:10 minutes. Courtesy Case Research Lab Museum, Cayuga Museum of History and Art, Library of Congress.
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American Film
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Theodore Case, fl. 1924
Date Published / Released
1924
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