Unseen cinema: early American avant-garde film, 1894-1941

Disc 1. The mechanized eye: experiments in technique and form (DVA 7963). Eiffel Tower from Trocadero Palace

Palace of Electricity

Champs de Mars

Panorama of Eiffel Tower

Scene from elevator ascending Eiffel Tower

Captain Nissen going through Whirpool Rapids, Niagra Falls

Down the Hudson

The ghost train

Westinghouse Works, panorama view, street car motor room

In youth, beside the lonely sea

Melody on parade

La cartomancienne (The fortune teller)

Pie in the sky

Travel notes

Oil: a symphony in motion

Poem 8

Storm

Portrait of a young man.

Disc 2. The devil's plaything: American surrealism (DVA 7964). Jack and the beanstalk

Dream of a rarebit fiend

The thieving hand

Impossible convicts

When the clouds roll by

Beggar on horseback

The fall of the house of Usher

The life and death of 9413: a Hollywood extra

The love of zero

The telltale heart

Tomatos another day

The hearts of age

Unreal news reels

The children's jury

Thimble theater

Carousel: animal opera

Jack's dream.

Disc 3. Light rhythms: music and abstraction (DVA 7965). Le Retour à la raison

Ballet mécanique

Anémic cinéma

Looney lens: anamorphic people

Out of the melting pot

H20

Surf and seaweed

The furies

Legacy of a Hollywood extra

Skyline dance

Money machine

Prohibition

The firefly (Vorkapich edit)

The firefly (MGM release version)

Maytime

So this is Paris

Light rhythms

Une nuit sur le Mont Chauve (Night on Bald Mountain)

Rhythm in light

Synchromy no. 2

Parabola

Footlight parade ("By a waterfall")

Glen Falls sequence

Simple destiny abstractions

Abstract movies

Scherzo

Themis

Contrathemis

1941

Moods of the sea.

Disc 4. Inverted narratives: new directions in storytelling (DVA 7966). The house with closed shutters

Suspense

Moonland

Lullaby

The bridge

Little geezer

Black dawn

Native land

Black legion

Even as you and I

Object lesson

"Sredni Vashtar" by Saki.

Disc 5. Picturing a metropolis: New York City unveiled (DVA 7967). The blizzard

Lower Broadway

Beginning of a skyscraper

Panorama from Times Building New York

Skyscrapers of NYC from North River

Panorama from tower of the Brooklyn Bridge

Building up and demolishing the Star Theatre

Coney Island at night

Interior New York Subway 14th Street to 42nd Street

Seeing New York by yacht

Looney lens: split skyscrapers

Looney lens: Tenth Avenue, NYC

8th Avenue elevated train at 112th Street

The trellis: work of sunshine and shade

View of Herald Square Station

Aerial view of Sixth Avenue train at 28th, 26th, 24th

Manhatta

Twentyfour-dollar Island

Skyscraper symphony

Manhattan medley

A Bronx morning

Footnote to fact

Seeing the world

The pursuit of happiness

Gold diggers of 1935 ("Lullaby of Broadway")

Autumn fire.

Disc 6. The amateur as auteur: discovering paradise in pictures (DVA 7968). 7 Case sound tests

Windy Ledge Farm

A day in Santa Fe

4 Stewart Family home movies

Children's party

Cotillion

The midnight party

Haiti

Tree trunk to head

Bicycle polo at San Mateo

1126 Dewey Avenue, Apt. 207.

Disc 7. Viva la dance: the beginnings of cine-dance (DVA 7969). 7 Annabelle dances and dances

Davy Jones' locker

Neptune's daughters

A nymph of the waves

Diana the huntress

The soul of the cypress

Looney lens: Pas de deux

Hände: das Leben und die Liebe eines zärtlichen Geschlechts (Hands: the life and loves of the gentler sex)

Mechanical principles

Tilly Losch in Her dance of the hands

Dance of the heads

Day of the dead

Oramunde

Hands

Joie de vivre

Wonder Bar ("Don't say goodnight")

Dada

Escape

An optical poem

Abstract experiment in Kodachrome

NBC Valentine greeting

Stars and stripes

Tarantella

Spook sport

Danse macabre

Peer Gynt

Introspection.