avant-garde documentary with sound
A six-minute film that documents the annual procession of the Gion Festival in Kyoto on July 17, 1941. The film opens with several consecutive intertitles explaining a brief history of the festival. As he cut from one intertitle to the next, Hattori used the splicer to create the effect of a diagonal wipe, which made it appear as if the viewers were turning a page of a book.
Documentary
"documentario cronistico"/documentary chronicle
"documentario"/documentary
"documentario"/documentary
"The film was conceived of, directed, shot, edited, and hand-titled by Barstow. A staff volunteer, Barstow had recently graduated from Dartmouth College (class of 1941) when he accepted work on the farm with his wife, Meg. The “Newark Kid-Stars,” as they are credited in the film, helped to create the story and acted in the film, yet their names were never recorded." The Back Table, Archives and Special Collections at the New York University.
Total Pages: 299
Amateur Cinema