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Mechanical Principles

Date produced: 1930

Filmmaker(s):

Ralph Steiner

Description:

"The third in Steiner’s trilogy of abstract films, Mechanical Principles (1930), is fascinating and more striking than Surf and Seaweed. It is composed of close-up shots of mechanical gears of different kinds in motion; rather than an examination of a single machine, it is an examination of the different kinds of motion produced by machines. Mechanical Principles emphasizes the tension in such machinery between the constancy of force and repetition on the one hand and the irregularity of shapes, sizes, and motions on the other, " Tepperman, 203.


Medicina e sport [Medicine and Sport]

Date produced: 1937

Filmmaker(s):

Mario Chiari

Fosco Maraini

Description:

doc. didattico e scientifico/educational and scientific film


Medieval Rothenburg

Date produced: 1960

Filmmaker(s):

Alfred Strode

Description:

Travelogue of Rothenburg, Germany.


Mediolanum

Date produced: 1932

Filmmaker(s):

Ubaldo Magnaghi

Description:

"documentario"/avant-garde documentary


Mediterranean Cruise

Date produced: 1930

Filmmaker(s):

Horace G. Wilcox


Mediterranean Cruise [1935]

Date produced: 1935

Filmmaker(s):

Frank Arthur Young

Description:

A travelogue of a cruise in an unknown area of the Mediterranean Sea.


Memmortigo?

Date produced: 1933

Filmmaker(s):

Delmir de Caralt

Description:

"Avant-garde surreal film investigating pessimism (embodied by a grey man who tries to commit suicide) and optimism (represented by a joyful young woman and her two children)." (EAFA Database).


Memories of the New York World’s Fair

Date produced: 1940

Filmmaker(s):

Frank Pezzano

Description:

"The film, titled 'Memories of the New York World's Fair' by filmmaker Frank J. Pezzano documents the 1939-1940 New York World's Fair. Pezzano edited the film and included hand-drawn and typed intertitles identifying the various locations and activities he filmed." Archives Center, National Museum of American History.


Men of the Land

Date produced: 1937

Filmmaker(s):

John Ganderson

Description:

This film shows farm activities in Norfolk, still mainly done without the aid of machines.


Men Of The Land Celebrate The Coronation, The

Date produced: 1937

Filmmaker(s):

John Ganderson

Description:

A film about the 1937 coronation shot in countryside around Wymondham, Norfolk, UK.


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