Main entry:

Symphonie der Grossstadt (Motion picture)

Title & Author:

Berlin, symphony of a great city : and, Opus 1 / [by Walther Ruttmann].

Publication:

[Chatsworth, Calif.] : Image Entertainment, ©1999.

Description:

1 videodisc (72 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.

Series:

Blackhawk Films collection

Notes:
Documentary.
Title from DVD title screen.
"Berlin, symphony of a great city. Includes the short film Opus 1"--Container.
Special contents: a short film "Opus 1", Germany, 1922, directed by Walther Ruttmann.
Films were preserved in 1993 by Film Preservation Associates.
1999 videodisc release of a motion picture originally produced in 1927 in Germany.
Production, Fox-Europa Film ; directed by Walther Ruttmann ; screenplay by Walther Ruttman and Earl Freund from an idea by Carl Meyer ; music composed and conducted by Timothy Brock.
Score performed by the Olympia Chamber Orchestra.
DVD NTSC.
Dolby stereo.
Introductory titles of both films in German. DVD title and film credits in English.

Summary:

"Berlin, symphony of a great city" presents a chronological progression of 20 hours in the city's life; "Opus 1" is "a rare example of the German avant-garde cinema known as 'absoluter Film' ... an exploration of the geometry of movement within the frame and the sensory effect"--Container.

Subject:

City symphonies (Motion pictures) Germany Berlin.
Silent films.
Films muets.
City symphonies (Motion pictures)
Travel
Berlin (Germany) Description and travel.
Germany Berlin

Form/genre:

NTSC standard.
Video recordings.
Optical disks.
DVDs.

Added entries:

Ruttmann, Walter, 1887-1941.
Film Preservation Associates.
Image Entertainment (Firm)
Fox-Europa (Firm)
Olympia Chamber Orchestra.
Blackhawk Films collection.

Title from film title screen : Symphonie der Grossstadt
Opus 1

Holdings:

Location: Library main av 247294
Call No.: PN1995.75 .B3 1927
Status: Available