Le Giornate del Cinema Muto 2005 Sommario / Contents

1.THE MECHANIZED EYE: Experiments in Technique and
Form
5 film Edison sull’esposizione di Parigi del 1900 / Paris Exposition of
1900 – 5 Edison films:
EIFFEL TOWER FROM TROCADERO PALACE; PALACE OF
ELECTRICITY; CHAMPS DE MARS; PANORAMA OF
EIFFEL TOWER; SCENE FROM THE ELEVATOR
ASCENDING EIFFEL TOWER (Edison, US 1900), prod. (+ f./ph.?):
James H.White; mus: EB.
LA CARTOMANCIENNE [The Fortune Teller] (US 1932), re./dir.,
mus: Jerome Hill.
TRAVEL NOTES (US 1932), re./dir: Walker Evans; mus: EB.
OIL:A SYMPHONY IN MOTION (Artkino, US 1930-33), re./dir:
Jean D. Michelson, M.G. MacPherson; mus: EB.
POEM 8 (US 1932-33), Emlen Etting; mus: EB.
2.THE DEVIL’S PLAYTHING:American Surrealism
THE IMPOSSIBLE CONVICTS (Biograph, US 1905), f./ph: G.W.
“Billy” Bitzer; mus: EB.
WHEN THE CLOUDS ROLL BY (Douglas Fairbanks Pictures
Corp., US 1919) (estratto/excerpt), re./dir: Victor Fleming; mus: EB.
BEGGAR ON HORSEBACK (US 1925) (estratto/excerpt), re./dir:
James Cruze; mus: DS.
TOMATOS ANOTHER DAY (US 1930/1933), J.S. Watson, Jr. &
Alec Wilder.
“The Enigmatic World of Joseph Cornell”:
UNREAL NEWS REELS (Weiss Artclass Comedies, US, c.1926)
(estratto/excerpt), re./dir: ? ; mus: RI.
THE CHILDREN’S JURY (US, c.1938), [Joseph Cornell]; mus: EB.
THIMBLE THEATER (US, c.1938), Joseph Cornell; mus: VR.
CAROUSEL:ANIMAL OPERA (US, c.1938), Joseph Cornell; mus:
VR, selezione di/selected by Cornell.
JACK’S DREAM (US, c.1938), Joseph Cornell; mus: VR, selezione
di/selected by Cornell.
3. LIGHT RHYTHMS: Music and Abstraction
BALLET MÉCANIQUE (FR 1923-24), re./dir: Fernand Léger &
Dudley Murphy, con partitura originale sincronizzata di/with original
synchronized score by George Antheil, realizzata da/realized by Paul
Lehrman.
LOONEY LENS:ANAMORPHIC PEOPLE (US 1927),Al Brick;
mus: DS.
THE FURIES (US 1934), re./dir., mont./ed: Slavko Vorkapich; mus: VR
(Beethoven), selezione di/selected by Vorkapich.
SO THIS IS PARIS (Warner Bros., US 1926) (estratto/excerpt),
re./dir: Ernst Lubitsch; mus: EB.
SYNCHROMY NO. 2 (US 1936), Mary Ellen Bute & Ted Nemeth;
mus: VR (Wagner), selezione di/selected by Bute.
GLEN FALLS SEQUENCE (US 1937-46), Douglass Crockwell;
film progettato muto/intentionally silent.
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ABSTRACT MOVIES (US 1937-47), George L.K. Morris; mus:
Shane Ryan.
MOODS OF THE SEA (US 1940-42), Slavko Vorkapich & John
Hoffman; mus: VR (Mendelssohn), selezione di/selected by Vorkapich &
Hoffman.
4. INVERTED NARRATIVES: New Directions in Storytelling
MOONLAND (US, 1923-26), Neil McQuire & William A. O’Connor;
mus: EB.
LITTLE GEEZER (US 1932), re./dir: Theodore Huff; mus: EB.
BLACK LEGION (Nykino, US 1936-7), re./dir: Ralph Steiner &
Willard Van Dyke.
OBJECT LESSON (US 1941), Christopher Young.
“SREDNI VASHTAR” BY SAKI (US 1940-43), re./dir: David
Bradley; mus: VR, selezione di/selected by Bradley.
5. PICTURING A METROPOLIS: New York City Unveiled
DEMOLISHING AND BUILDING THE STAR THEATRE
(Biograph, US 1902), Frederick Armitage; mus: EB.
CONEY ISLAND AT NIGHT (Edison, US 1905), re./dir: Edwin S.
Porter; mus: EB.
INTERIOR NEW YORK SUBWAY 14TH ST. TO 42ND ST.
(Biograph, US 1905), f./ph: G.W.“Billy” Bitzer; mus: EB.
SEEING NEW YORK BY YACHT (Biograph, US 1902), Frederick
Armitage & A.E.Weed; mus: EB.
LOONEY LENS: SPLIT SKYSCRAPERS (US, c.1924), TENTH
AVENUE, NYC (US, c.1924),Al Brick; mus: EB.
FORD EDUCATIONAL WEEKLY (US 1916-24), 4 scenes,
re./dir: ?; mus: EB.
$24 ISLAND (US 1926) (restaurato/restored), re./dir: Robert
Flaherty; mus: DS.
MANHATTAN MEDLEY (US 1931), Bonney Powell; mus: Louis de
Francesco (1931).
FOOTNOTE TO FACT (US 1933), re./dir: Lewis Jacobs; mus:
Rodney Sauer.
SEEING THE WORLD, PART ONE:A VISIT TO NEW YORK,
N.Y. (US 1937), re./dir: Rudy Burckhardt.
6. THE AMATEUR AS AUTEUR: Discovering Paradise in
Pictures
WINDY LEDGE FARM (US, 1929-34), Elizabeth Woodman Wright;
mus: RI.
A DAY IN SANTA FE (US 1931), Lynn Riggs & James Hughes; mus:
Neal Kurz.
Dalla /From Joseph Cornell’s “Children’s Trilogy”:
CHILDREN’S PARTY (US 1938), Joseph Cornell; film progettato
senza musica/intentionally silent.
THE MIDNIGHT PARTY (US 1938), Joseph Cornell; film
progettato senza musica / intentionally silent.
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