Hidden Bibliographic Details
Varying Form of Title: | Devil's playground : American surrealism Thieving hand
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Other authors / contributors: | Blackton, James Stuart, 1875-1941, director.
Vitagraph Company of America, production company.
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Digital file characteristics: | video file
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Notes: | Title from resource description page (viewed June 29, 2020). "American surrealism". Silent with musical accompaniment.
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Summary: | THE DEVIL'S PLAYGROUND is part of the film retrospective UNSEEN CINEMA that explores long-forgotten American experimental cinema. Released by the Vitagraph Company of America, this short comedy about a larcenous and independently minded prosthesis features a nonsensical narrative that the French surrealists would have appreciated as much as they did the work of Emil Cohl. --JAN-CHRISTOPHER HORAK. 35mm 1.33:1 black and white silent with music 18fps 6:34 minutes. Production: Vitagraph Company of America.
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Standard no.: | ASP5053237/marc
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