Experimental Cinema (1930-1934)

Page scan 000273 from Experimental Cinema

Record Details:

Title:
Experimental Cinema
Date:
1930-1934
Publisher:
Philadelphia, Cinema Crafters of America
Volume:
Experimental Cinema (1930-1934)
Leaf #:
000273
Language:
English
Collection:
Hollywood Studio System and Non-Theatrical Film
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
The Museum of Modern Art Library, New York
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Issue no. 2 is a photocopy. The other four issues are scanned from originals.
Date Added:
July 25, 2024
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What is GOOD MOVIE? What makes the film a fine art? ■ What is the relation of Pabst and Cocteau, Rene Clair and Vertoff, Eisenstein and von Sternberg, Pudovkin and De Mille, and others, to the film as an art and social force? ■ Why is Hollywood film-making done in a vacuum? ■ Why are various directors with "big reputations" unimportant to the progress of cinema? ■ What makes the Hollywood film — and the bourgeois cinema in general — the foe of truth, social betterment and film art? ■ Can honest movies be made under the domination of industrialists and financiers? ■ What is the status of the film worker in the bourgeois cinema and the U.S.S.R.? B What are film experimenters doing? I What are the vital trends in contemporary cinema — technically, artistically, socially? ■ Why do many films bore you? ■ In other words, what is good movie? If you are the type of movie-goer who knows that the curves of a Mae West or the grin of a Maurice Chevalier do not make a good movie, then you will enjoy the answers to the above and other questions dealing with film practice in — Of World Importance: "Experimental Cinema" IIO. G A few of the features: THE CULT OF GLIBNESS IN FILM CRITICISM. — B. G. Braver-Mann SADISM OF C. B. DE MILLE — Robert Sherman HAIL THE FILM! -Blaise Cendrars NEW MONTAGE CONCEPTS — V. S. Pudovkin DOVZHENKO'S "IVAN" — Mary Seron G. W. PABST — Herman Weinberg PLAN FOR A FILM EXPOSITION — Lewis Jacobs LONDON CINEMA — Stephen Clarkson HOLLYWOOD NOTES — Seymour Stern EXPERIMENTAL FILMS ANALYTICAL CRITICISM STILLS AND ESSAYS FOREMOST CRITICAL JOURNAL IN ENGLISH FORTHE INTELLIGENT MOVIEGOER, TECHNICIAN, WRITER, FILM AMATEUR, DIRECTOR AND PLAYER. EXPE RIMENTAL CINEMA Orders for extra copies of No. 5 ($2 for 4 numbers) may be sent to 5 1 West 47th Street, New York City