Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | Unseen cinema : early American avant-garde film, 1893-1941
Inverted narratives : new directions in storytelling
Moonland
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| Other authors / contributors: | O'Connor, William A., 1900- director.
McGuire, Neil, 1893-1972, director.
McBan, Mickey, actor.
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| Digital file characteristics: | video file
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| Notes: | "New directions in storytelling".
Title from resource description page (viewed June 04, 2020).
Production, J. Willard Elwood.
Silent; intertitles in English.
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| Summary: | INVERTED NARRATIVES is part of the retrospective UNSEEN CINEMA that explores long-forgotten American experimental cinema. A conventional short program filler turns into a science fiction illustration gone visually berserk. Mickey McBain's search for the "man in the moon" leads him through oversized background paintings reminiscent of a psychedelic black-and-white "The Wizard of Oz", but this film predates that fantasy by at least a decade. The tie comes from the close artistic collaborations in the early 1920s between Neil McGuire and Warren A. Newcombe, the special effects painter who produced the Emerald City backgrounds fro Oz. --BRUCE POSNER 16mm from 35mm 1.33:1 black and white silent with music 18fps 11:21 minutes. Production J. Willard Elwood.
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| Standard no.: | ASP5053303/marc
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