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Avant-Garde
Experimental Cinema of
the 1920s and ’30s
(1921-1947)
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Contents: Manhatta (1921), Rhythmus 21 (1921), Le Retour à la raison (1923), Le Ballet mécanique (1924), Symphonie diagonale (1924), Anémic cinéma (1926), Emak-Bakia (1926), Ménilmontant (1926), La Glace à trois faces (1927), Brumes d’automne (1928), La Coquille et le clergyman (1928), L’Étoile de mer (1928), The Life and Death of 9413, a Hollywood Extra (1928), Überfall (1928), Vormittagsspuk (1928), Les Mystères du Château du Dé (1929), H2O (1929), Regen (1929), Romance sentimentale (1930), Autumn Fire (1931), Lot in Sodom (1933), The Hearts of Age (1934), Even As You and I (1937), Le vampire (1939) and Le tempestaire (1947).
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 Kino on Video
2005 DVD edition
Avant-Garde: Experimental Cinema of the 1920s and ’30s (1921-1947), black & white, 360 minutes total, not rated,
including Manhatta (1921), black & white, 10 minutes, not rated, Rhythmus 21 (1921), black & white, 3 minutes, not rated, Le Retour à la raison (1923), black & white, 2 minutes, not rated, Le Ballet mécanique (1924), black & white, 11 minutes, not rated, Symphonie diagonale (1924), black & white, 7 minutes, not rated, Anémic cinéma (1926), black & white, 6 minutes, not rated, Emak-Bakia (1926), black & white, 16 minutes, not rated, Ménilmontant (1926), black & white, 37 minutes, not rated, La Glace à trois faces (1927), black & white, 33 minutes, not rated, Brumes d’automne (1928), black & white, 12 minutes, not rated, La Coquille et le clergyman (1928), black & white, 31 minutes, not rated, L’Étoile de mer (1928), black & white, 15 minutes, not rated, The Life and Death of 9413, a Hollywood Extra (1928), black & white, 13 minutes, not rated, Überfall (1928), black & white, 22 minutes, not rated, Vormittagsspuk (1928), black & white, 9 minutes, not rated, Les Mystères du Château du Dé (1929), black & white, 20 minutes, not rated, H2O (1929), black & white, 12 minutes, not rated, Regen (1929), black & white, 14 minutes, not rated, Romance sentimentale (1930), black & white, 20 minutes, not rated, Autumn Fire (1931), black & white, 15 minutes, not rated, Lot in Sodom (1933), black & white, 27 minutes, not rated, The Hearts of Age (1934), black & white, 8 minutes, not rated, Even: As You and I (1937), black & white, 12 minutes, not rated, Le vampire (1939), black & white, 8 minutes, not rated, and Le tempestaire (1947), black & white, 22 minutes, not rated.
Kino International, K402, UPC 7-38329-04022-2.
Two single-sided, dual-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD discs, 1.33:1 aspect ratio image in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan MPEG-2 format, SDR (standard dynamic range), ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? Kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 48 kHz 2.0 stereo sound, English language intertitles, English language subtitles (selected films), chapter stops; two-disc DVD keepcase; $29.95.
Release date: 2 August 2005.
Country of origin: USA
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