Le Giornate del Cinema Muto 2006 Sommario / Contents

In Die Biene Maja, the plot consists of events in the life of the bee
protagonist Maya, relying upon the charm of the cinematic attractions
along the way.The production reflects a huge photographic effort, while
its matter-of-fact cinematography does justice to the real-life marvels of
nature depicted. The story is anthropomorphic, advancing by human
steps and turns, but the onscreen momentum of life is based on the
rhythm and actions of the insects themselves.While the insect actors are
driven by their instincts instead of acting skills, the humanization of the
miniature fauna in the film by necessity relies on the intertitles and
musical accompaniment. Dialogue and narrative titles guide the literate
audience in interpreting the images, which on their own could be
misunderstood, or taken for granted through familiarity, from the point of
view of the creatures and their terms of life.The magnified activities on
the screen can be grasped on two levels, both constantly present and
working together – sometimes, with surprising power, in a parallel
direction, or sometimes simply operating against each other. The
nocturnal scene with the elves – a trick sequence – can be seen as an
acknowledgement that the actual life of insects may be less
comprehensible to our human experience than any fairytale in
wonderland. – JUHA KINDBERG
HAGHEFILM/SELZNICK SCHOOL FELLOWSHIP 2006
La borsa di studio Haghefilm/L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film
Preservation è stata istituita nel 1998 da Peter Limburg, presidente
della Cineco/Haghefilm di Amsterdam. Da allora otto dei migliori
diplomati della scuola sono stati ad Amsterdan per lavorare a stretto
contatto con gli specialsiti dell’Haghefim al restauro di cortometraggi
della collezione della George Eastman House. I risultati così ottenuti
vengono poi annualmente presentati al pubblico delle Giornate del
Cinema Muto.
Quest’anno la vincitrice della borsa di studio Haghefilm è Pat Doyen,
attualmente residente a Richmond, Virginia. Ms. Doyen, laureata in
produzione cinematografica alla Tisch School of the Arts della NYU,
ha conseguito il Master in Media Study and Theatre presso la State
University of New York a Buffalo nel 1998. Negli ultimi sette anni ha
tenuto corsi sulla cinematografia a passo ridotto ed animazione negli
Stati Uniti ed in Canada. È co-proprietaria della Chop Suey Books di
Richmond, VA, specializzata in libri usati e rari di arte, fotografia,
design, cinema e architettura. – CAROLINE YEAGER
The Haghefilm Fellowship at The L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film
Preservation was established in 1998 by Peter Limburg, President of
Cineco/Haghefilm Laboratory in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Since its
inception, eight outstanding graduates of the school have traveled to
Amsterdam to work side by side with the preservation specialists at
Haghefilm preserving short films selected from the George Eastman
House collection. Each year the Fellow presents the preserved film at Le
Giornate del Cinema Muto. This year’s recipient of the Haghefilm
Fellowship is Pat Doyen, who currently resides in Richmond,Virginia. Ms.
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Doyen is a film production graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts,
and received her Master of Arts in Media Study and Theatre from the
State University of New York at Buffalo in 1998. For the past 7 years she
has taught small-gauge filmmaking and animation classes to students in
the U.S. and Canada. She is the co-owner of Chop Suey Books in
Richmond,VA, which specializes in used and rare books in the fields of
art, photography, design, film, and architecture. – CAROLINE YEAGER
BRONCHO BILLY’S ADVENTURE (Essanay Film Mfg. Co., US
1911)
Regia/dir: Gilbert M. “Broncho Billy” Anderson; cast: Gilbert M.
“Broncho Billy” Anderson, Edna Fisher, Fred Church; 35mm, 961ft., 16’
(16 fps), George Eastman House, Rochester, NY. Conservazione e
stampa/Preserved and printed 2006.
Didascalie in inglese / English intertitles.
Broncho Billy’s Adventure può essere considerato una nuova aggiunta
alla lista di titoli conservatisi su Broncho Billy. Quest’episodio vede il
nostro che fa da sensale di matrimoni per la figlia di un locandiere che
si dà alla rissa con uno dei molti pretendenti della figlia e si guadagna
la rabbia degli altri. Moving Picture World definì Broncho Billy’s Adventure
“un film western di prim’ordine”, in cui Broncho Billy salva più di una
vita giocando a fare Cupido. La fonte per questa copia è stato il
negativo originale al nitrato, da poco scoperto nei sotterranei della
George Eastman House.– PAT DOYEN
Broncho Billy’s Adventure can be considered a new addition to the list of
surviving Broncho Billy titles.This installment in the series finds Broncho Billy
playing matchmaker to an innkeeper’s daughter.The innkeeper gets into a
scuffle with one of his daughter’s many suitors, and earns the anger of the
rest. Moving Picture World called Broncho Billy’s Adventure “a first class
Western cowboy picture”, in which Broncho Billy saves more than one life
while playing Cupid. The source material for this print was the original
nitrate camera negative, recently discovered in the George Eastman House
vaults. – PAT DOYEN
[THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA] (Lubin, US 1914)
Regia/dir: ?; 35mm, 36 ft., 1’30” (16 fps), George Eastman House,
Rochester, NY. Conservazione e stampa/Preserved and printed 2006.
Didascalie in inglese / English intertitles.
Le avventure animate di un sottomarino sono disegnate con linee
bianche su sfondo nero, in contrasto con le solite linee nere su sfondo
bianco. Si ritiene che questo frammento sia una copia di un film della
Lubin a 35mm lungo in origine 600 piedi. Purtroppo questa breve
visione è tutto quel che resta della divertente storia di un esotico
mondo sottomarino. – PAT DOYEN
The animated adventures of a submarine are drawn with white lines on a
black background, as opposed to the usual black lines on a white
background.This fragment is believed to be a copy of a 35mm Lubin film
which was originally 600 ft. long. Unfortunately, this short glimpse is all that
remains of this amusing tale of an exotic undersea world. – PAT DOYEN