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'Unseen Cinema' a Trove of Ideas |
| Section: THE ARTS / FILM |
| Author: Gary Arnold |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/2006 |
| Size: 865 Words, 5,896 Characters |
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If you can afford to splurge for a special occasion while shopping for a dyed-in-the-wool movie nut whose tastes are not strictly mainstream, the most generous purchase might be the DVD collection "Unseen Cinema."
Culled from about sixty movie archives around the world, it offers about 155 titles, mostly shorts, that illustrate experimental and abstract filmmaking in the United States over half a century, from the dawn of movie production to the early 1940s.
The subtitle sets the boundaries: "Early American Avant-Garde Film, 1894-1941." A similar anthology, Kino Video's "Avant-Garde: Films From the Raymond Rohauer Collection," was released a few months ago. A two-disc set, it consists of about two dozen titles--most of ...
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...e print, and the sequence certainly makes an amusing teaser for the movie as a whole.
TITLE: "Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant-Garde Film, 1894-1941"
CONTENT: Seven-disc anthology of abstract and experimental movies
RUNNING TIME: About 19 hours
RATING: Unrated
PRICE: $100
DISTRIBUTOR: Image Entertainment
WEB SITE: www.unseen-cinema.com
Copyright © 2005 The Washington Times, LLC.
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