Unseen Cinema Early American Avant Garde Film 18941941 (2005)

Unseen Cinema reveals hitherto unknown accomplishments of American filmmakers working in the United States and abroad from the invention of cinema until World War II and offers an innovative and often controversial view of experimental film as a product of avantgarde artists of professional directors and of amateur moviemakers working collectively and as individuals at all levels of film production Many of the films have not been available since their creation some have never been screened in public and almost all have been unavailable in copies as good as these until now Sixty of the worlds leading film archive collections cooperated with Anthology Film Archives to bring this longneglected period of film history back to life for modern audiences