This one is a collage of Hollywood melodramas of the 1950s and 1960s, filmed directly from the television set. The constantly recurring motifs of suspense and clichés of plot make it possible to move seamlessly among scenes from different films with different protagonists: uneasy sleep, getting up, listening at the door, turning on the lights, being startled, etc. In the montage, the movements and gestures of the actresses – stars like Lana Turner, Tippi Hedren, and Grace Kelly– seem choreographed and planned for each other. The soundtrack supports this effect with connecting passages of sound that imitate the stereotypes of the genre. The treatment concentrates the dramatic shift from the familiar to the eerie and shows how women become the victims of the voyeuristic glance of film.
A group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a t...
Working men and women leave through the main gate of the Lumière factory in Lyon, France. Filmed on ...
Demonstration of the rapid poisoning of a cat hung up in a cloth, strychnine as a trigger of the ton...
The movie shows the consequences of total and partial removal of the epithelial bodies in a cat
Two cats housed in a glass box, one of which had received a small amount of atropine in the prelimin...
Compulsory locomotion and continuous circular movement to the operated side without orientation in c...
Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.
Documentary on how the osprey catches its prey. The film shows the search for prey, the launch maneu...
Benjamin and Awad run Sudan's national film archive. The two men, who have worked together for more ...
Crossed by greed, two hundred and seventy-two people were buried by tailings from the Vale mining co...
The remarkable, forgotten story behind David Bowie’s biggest-ever hit record – and how an unlikely j...
Since second grade Matt and Ryan have shared the bond of speech impediments, weapons, and things tha...
Charles Santore, in an expansion of his discussion in “Oz: The American Fairyland” (1997) (V), tells...
Panorama of Nice from the deck of a ship.
An impression of the funeral parade for Victoria, Queen of England, filmed in London (via https://ca...
Elaborate floats and costumes parading the streets of Nice.