© Courtesy Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant-Garde Film 1893-1941


© Courtesy Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant-Garde Film 1893-1941


© Courtesy Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant-Garde Film 1893-1941


© Courtesy Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant-Garde Film 1893-1941


© Courtesy Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant-Garde Film 1893-1941


© Courtesy Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant-Garde Film 1893-1941

SEEING THE WORLD, PART ONE: A VISIT TO NEW YORK, N.Y.

by Rudy BURCKHARDT
1937 / 16mm / b&w / sound / 1S / 10' 20




Featuring Jospeh Cotton, Virginia Nicholson Welles, John Becker, Edwin Denby. Music and sound added by Jacob Burckhardt in the 1970s.
"The film opens as a sightseeing portrait of New York, with lively narration taking the viewer aboard the New York elevated and subway trains. Then the view from the windows becomes slightly abstracted, the voice of the commentator becomes uncertain, and tension arises through curious acted scenes of conflict." - R. Bruce Elder



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