MBC INTERACTIVE ARCHIVE - USA: Pre-1960s Experimental Pioneers

USA | 1940s

USA | 1940s

USA: Pre-1960s Experimental Pioneers

Pre-1960s Experimental Pioneers

Avant-Garde After the Avant-Garde, Before the Avant-Garde

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1b Bell and Howell Filmo Auto-8 8mm camera, 1948. USbrochure diecut

The Players

2a Hans Richter

2b Hans Richter

2 Len Lye - The Long Dream of Waking, New Perspectives on Len Lye, 2018 USbook cover 1979, Len Lye Foundation.

3a Mary Ellen Bute

3b Slavko Vorkapić

3 Robert Florey

5 Kenneth Anger

7 WeeGee, Self portrait circa 1950s, American Postcard, 1983.

9 Oskar Fischinger

10 Marie Menken

Mary Ellen Bute, Ted Nemeth and Oscar Fischinger

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400 Mary Ellen Bute and Ted Nemeth, Song To The Evening Star, Popular Science, November, 1936. USmag

401 Oscar Fischinger, Motion Painting Number One, 1947. USp Los Angeles County Museum of Arte Cinematheque Quebecoise

401b Oscar Fischinger, Motion Painting Number One, 1947. USp Los Angeles County Museum of Arte Cinematheque Quebecoise

Joseph Cornell

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598 Dance Index, cover desined by Joseph Cornell. Index of Dance Films, 1945. USindex

599 Joseph Cornell, Manual of Marvels 1936, The Facsimile, Thames and Hudson, 2012. USbook

599b Joseph Cornell, Manual of Marvels, 1936 The Facsimile, Thames and Hudson, 2012. USbook

Len Lye

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500 Len Lye, The Body Electric, exhibition, 2011. Ikon Gallery, Birmingham. UKcat

500e Len Lye, Rainbow Dance, 1936. The Body Electric, exhibition, 2011. Ikon Gallery, Birmingham. UKcat

500d Len Lye, A Colour Box, 1935. The Body Electric, exhibition, 2011. Ikon Gallery, Birmingham. UKcat

500j Len Lye, N or NW, 1938. The Body Electric, exhibition, 2011. Ikon Gallery, Birmingham. UKcat

500n Len Lye, Ann Lye, 1947 _ Self-Portrait with Night Tree, 1947. The Body Electric, exhibition, 2011. Ikon Gallery, Birmingham. UKcat

500r Len Lye, The Body Electric, exhibition, 2011. Ikon Gallery, Birmingham. UKcat

Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid

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602 Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid, Meshes in the Afternoon et al, first West Coast screening, Experimental Film Society, April 13, 1947. USinvite

601c Maya Deren, Meshes in the Afternoon, 1943. USlaserdisk, 1990 Image Entertainmentowell 8mm camera

607 Maya Deren, In The Mirror of Maya Deren, Martina Kudlácek, 2001. Jc

601 Maya Deren, Meshes in the Afternoon, 1943. USlaserdisk, 1990 Image Entertainment

605b Maya Deren, Film Culture, Winter 1965. Invitation, Oct 31, 1959. USmag

Willard Maas and Marie Menken

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609b Willard Maas and Marie Menken. Photo credit Frank Polach

609 Willard Maas, Geography of the Body, 1943, Cinema 16 1969 Festival with Mark Sadam, Ed Emshwiller, Alan Stecker, Mike Kuchar, Cassandra Gerstein, USad

Hans Richter and Man Ray

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565 Hans Richter, Ein Leben fur Bild und Kunste 1958

565k Hans Richter, Leben fur Bild _ Kunste

561 Hans Richter, Man Ray, Dreams That Money Can Buy, 1947. USp

565p Hans Richter, Leben fur Bild _ Kunste

561b Hans Richter, Man Ray, Dreams That Money Can Buy, 1947. USp

904 Man Ray, objects de mon affection (Objects of My Affection), 1968. Fcat

904D-1 Man Ray, objects de mon affection (Objects of My Affection), 1968 Fca

904E-1 Man Ray objects de mon affection(Objects of My Affection) Fcat

905b-1 Man Ray, Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 1971. ncat

905 Man Ray, Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 1971. ncat

Weegee

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910b WeeGee_s New York, Statue of Liberty Distortion, 1950. USpcset Fotofolio

910 WeeGee_s New York, Crown at Coney Island, Temperature 89 degrees. They Came Early and Stayed Late, 1941. USpcset Fotofolio 1994.

911 WeeGee, Fotovision, 1989. aflyer

910c WeeGee_s New York, Woman Cab Driver and Macy_s Clown, New York, 1942. USpcset Fotofolio, 1994.

Kenneth Anger

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619b Kenneth Anger, Magick Lantern Cycle Part One and Two, 1996. Alliance Cinema USflyer

620 Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome, 1954. Magic Lantern Cycle retrospective, 1980s. Jticket

619 Kenneth Anger, Fireworks, 1947. Fflyer

619e Kenneth Anger, Magick Lantern Cycle Part One and Two, 1996. Jp

619i Kenneth Anger, Magick Lantern Cycle Part One and Two, 1996. Jp

619l Kenneth Anger, Magick Lantern Cycle Part One and Two, 1996. Jp

619h Kenneth Anger, Magick Lantern Cycle Part One and Two, 1996. Jp

Gregory Markopoulos

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626 Gregory Markopoulos, Twice a Man, 1964. The Film Workshop, 1962. USbooklet

626m Gregory Markopoulos, Twice a Man, 1964. The Film Workshop, 1962. USbooklet

628 Gregory Markopoulos, Quest For Serenity, Journal of a Filmmaker, 1965. Autographed by Markopoulos USjournal

628b Gregory Markopoulos, Quest For Serenity, Journal of a Filmmaker, 1965. Autographed by Markopoulos USjournal

629 Gregory Markopoulos, The Filmmaker as Physician of the Future, design for Film Culture Magazine, Spring, 1967. USmag

Amos Vogel and Cinema 16

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940 Amos Vogel, Cinema 16 program, 1954. UScalendar

940b Cinema 16 program, 1954. UScalendar

940d Cinema 16 program, 1954. UScalendar

Jonas Mekas and Film Culture Magazine

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950d Jonas Mekas, Maya Deren, A Study in Choreography For Camera, 1945. US ad Filmmaker_s Cinematheque, New York. 1960s.

950e Jonas Mekas, Film Culture 12, 1957. USmag

950f Jonas Mekas, Film Culture Magazine 14, 1957. USmag

950 Maya Deren, Film Culture, Winter 1965. USmag

To Be Continued

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