UNSEEN CINEMA: The Film Program
When it is exhibited, Unseen Cinema consists
of 20 programs. To see information on the contents of each program, click on the
title from the list below.
- #1—Picturing
a Metropolis: New York City Unveiled
- #2—The
Devil's Plaything: Fantastic Myths and Fairy Tales
- #3—Light
Rhythms: Melodies and Montage,
- #4—Down
to Earth: Social Realism and the Experimental Melodrama
- #5—A
F***ing Miracle! Revolutions in Technique and Form
- #6—Dance,
Dance, Dance: Image, Movement, Abstraction
- #7—Writing
with Lightning: D.W. Griffith, Mary Ellen Bute, Busby Berkeley
- #8—The
Mechanized Eye
- #9—A
Mirrored Romance
- #10—Cinema's
Secret Garden: The Amateur as Auteur
- #11—Ecstatic
Moments: Along the River of Time
- #12—First
Steps: Early Efforts by Hollywood Directors
- #13—The
World Observed: Hard Facts and the Great Depression
- #14—Edgy
Movies: Roots and Branches
- #15—Lovers
of Cinema
- #16—The
Grand Experiment
- #17—Fantasy
Dreams of a Rarebit Fiend
Edison Manufacturing, 1906, Edwin S. Porter, 35mm, 10 min. at18fps
The Bluebird
1918, Maurice Tourner, 35mm, 70 min. at 18fps
- #18—Realism
City of Contrasts
1931, Irving Browning, 35mm, 17.66 min.
The Salvation Hunters
1925, Josef von Sternberg, 35mm, 65 min.
- #19—Angst
Borderline
Pool Film, 1930, Kenneth MacPherson, Winifred Bryher, 35mm, 80 min. at 18fps
- # 20—Unseen Cinema
The Ghost Train
American Mutoscope & Biograph, 1903, Unidentified filmmaker (G.W. "Billy"
Bitzer), 35mm, 15.6 sec. at 18fps