Experimental Cinema (1930-1934)

1 INDEX TO THE FIRST FOUR NUMBERS OF EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA VOLUME ONE Number One — February, 1930 title page Analytical Treatise on the Dreyer Form (Lewis Jacobs) 13 The New Cinema (David Piatt) 1 Film, The Passion of Joan of Arc Principles of the New World-Cinema: Dynamic Composition (Alexander with Appendix of a Constructive A Continuation of the Aesthetic Bakshy) 2 Critique (Werner Klingler) 7 and Structural Principles of Soviet Film Problems of Soviet Russia The Modern Spirit in Films: Motion: Cinematography, Including New (Harry Alan Potamkin) 3 The Medium of the Movie (Barnet Forms of Film-Montage (Seymour Film Direction and Film Manuscript G. Braver-Mann) 11 Stern) 15 (Vsevolod L. Pudovkin) 5 The New Cinema: A Preface to Film Announcement 26 Focus and Mechanism (David Piatt) 2 Quotation from Etienne de Beaumont 3 In ,p.isenstein's Domain (Dr. Erwin Honig) 4 Evolution of Cinematography in France (Alberto Cavalcanti) 5 Film Direction and Film Manuscript: Number Two — June, 1930 Chapter II— The Building Up of Braver-Mann) , 18 the Manuscript (V. L. Pudovkin) 7 From George Melies to S. M. Eisen Hollywood Bulletin (Seymour Stern) 12 stein (Leon Moussinac) 21 Decomposition (Lewis Jacobs) 15 . T /T . . r» i j tv i .• /tj a t> "ris Letter (Jean Lenauer) 22 Populism and Dialectics (H. A. Po , _ . . , ' _ .. ... .. Proposed Continuity for the Ending -ri. w j c ■ •■;""."■*■■■'■ ~V""j'" of All Quiet on the Western Front The Modern Spirit in Films: Theatre and Motion Picture. (Barnet G. (Werner Klingler) 23 Number Three — February, 1931 TITLE PAGE Editorial Statement 3 Eisenstein (Lewis Jacobs) 4 The Cinematographic Principle and Japanese Culture: With a Digression on Montage and the Shot (S. M. Eisenstein) 5 The Problem of the New Film Language (Victor Turin) 11 Quotation from "The Five Year Plan and the Cultural Revolution" (Kurella) 12 Note on Edward Weston 13, 15 Statement by Edward Weston 14 Scenario and Direction (Vsevolod L. Pudovkin) 16 One Hour with Gilbert Seldes Is Too Much (David Piatt) 19 Turk-Sib and the Soviet Fact (J. Lengyel) 20 Hollywood Bulletin: Foar More Soviet Films in Hollywood, Eisenstein in Mexico, Flaherty Goes To Russia 22 On a Theory of "Sources" (Samuel Brody) 23 Quotation from Canon Joseph Raymond 25 Vidor and Evasion (B. G. BraverMann) 26 Principles of the New World-Cinema: Part 11: The Film as Microcosmos (Seymour Stern) 29 Editor's Note on H. A. Potamkin .... 34 The Position of the Soviet Cinema (Leon Moussinac) 35 Workers Films in New York 37 Soviet Photography (G. Boltiansky) 37 Number Four — February, 1933 PACE 1 3 TITLE Editorial Statement A Statement by Theodore Dreiser .... Eisenstein's Film on Mexico (Agus tin Aragon Leiva) 5 Eisenstein) 7 The Principles of Film Form (S. M. "Que Viva Mexico!": Eisenstein In Mexico (Morris Helprin) 13 Let's Organize an Experimental Studio for Sound Films! (Bela Belazs) 17 Hollywood: Sales Agent of American Imperialism (J. M. ValdesRodriquez) 18 Cine-Analysis (M. Kaufman) 21 Quotation: "The New Republic" on "The Road to Life" 23 A Few Remarks on the Elements of Cine-Language (Alexander Brailovsky) 24 Hollywood Films and the Working Class (Somerset Logan) 27 Toward a Workers' Cinema in England: The Merseyside Workers' Film Society (Michael Rose Roberts) 28 Technical Brilliance or Ideology? (George W. Lighton) 29 Ozep's Film, "The Murderer Karamazov" (Werner Klingler) 30 Bulletin No. 1 of the Mexican Cine Club 34 Ilya Zacharevitch Trauberg: Russia's Youngest Film Director 37 A Letter From Moscow (N. Solew).. 38 Highway 66: Montage Notes for a Documentary Film (Lewis Jacobs) 40 The Production of Working Class Films (Ralph Bond) 42 London Cinema Notes (Stephen Clarkson) 42 61 The Development of Sound in the Soviet Motion Picture Industry (Victor P. Smirnov) 43 Paris Letter: Reasons for Suppressing a Film (G. L. George) 44 Hollywood and Montage: The Basic Fallacies of American Film Technique (Seymour Stern) 47 oily wood Bulletin: Three Years of Soviet Films in Hollywood, The Academy and the Cameramen, Soviet Stimulation in Hollywood, The Hollywood Code, Chaplin, De Mille, Rowland Brown on Capitalism and the Soviet Union, Film Culture in the U. S. A 54 Hollywood Sees "The Road to Life" 1931 60 Notes From Moscow 61 The New Soviet Film Program .... 61-62