Published: 1983; 256 pages
COVER: Sidney Peterson. Photo by Wm. R. Heick.
Printed by Capital City Press, Montpelier, Vermont.
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Editor-in-Chief: Jonas Mekas.
Assistant Editors: P. Adams Sitney, Hollis Melton.
Business Manager: Diana Freed.
Publisher: Film Art Fund, Inc.
Contents
1. A Movie House Is An Enlarged Camera, by Sidney Peterson
2. Sidney Peterson Bibliography
3. Sidney Peterson Filmography
4. Sidney Peterson: A Lecture, by Stan Brakhage
5. Alexander Nevsky, by Leon Balter, M. D.
6. Christopher Maclaine — Approaching The End, by J.J. Murphy
7. The Films of Andrew Noren, by Gail Camhi
8. Andrew Noren Filmography
9. Eureka By Ernie Gehr, by Myrel Glick
10. Excerpts From Discussions With Ernie Gehr
11. Interview With James Herbert, by Robert Russett
12. James Herbert Filmography
13. A Letter From Georges Melies To Merritt Crawford, Esq.
14. A Letter From Joseph Cornell To Frederick Kiesler
15. A Post Card And Letter From Sergei M. Eisenstein To Renaud De Jouvenel
16. Danylo Demutsky, Cameraman, by Ivan Koszeliwec
17. Letter From Ron Rice To Robert Frank
18. Note From Ron Rice to Jonas Mekas
19. 1979 Lecture By Warren Sonbert
20. Warren Sonbert, by Rudy Burckhardt
21. The Films of Warren Sonbert, by Phillip Lopate
22. Interview With Warren Sonbert, by David Ehrenstein
23. Program Notes From A Screening Of Carriage Trade and Rude Awakening
24. Warren Sonbert Filmography
25. Program Notes For A Walter Gutman Retrospective In 1981, by Walter Gutman
26. The Films Of David Brooks, by J.J. Murphy
27. Correspondence — Kenneth Anger And Paul Johnston, 1947-48
28. Corrections
Index of Images
James Keeney in The Cage (1947)
Sidney Peterson in Boston, October 28, 1978. Photo: Robert del Tredici.
Still from Mr. Frenhofer and the Minotaur.
Strike. (7 film stills)
Potemkin, Odessa Steps. (film still)
Que Viva Mexico, Crucifiction. (film still)
Que Viva Mexico, mater dolorosa. (film still)
Potemkin. (6 film stills)
October. (3 stills)
Strike, “lady of the night”.
Alexander Nevsky, Mongol debasement.
Alexander Nevsky, bound.
Alexander Nevsky, eyes menaced.
Alexander Nevsky, suspension.
Alexander Nevsky, Child suspended.
Alexander Nevsky, Child thrown into fire.
Alexander Nevsky, Ananais in canine attitude.
Alexander Nevsky, Romantic Triangle.
Alexander Nevsky, excitement of Olga’s admirers.
Alexander Nevsky, homosexual attractiveness.
Alexander Nevsky. (4 film stills)
Alexander Nevsky, a mass of calm, exposed faces.
Alexander Nevsky, symbolic castration.
Alexander Nevsky, submission.
Alexander Nevsky, the dead Savka.
Alexander Nevsky, Domash.
Alexander Nevsky, Ignat.
Alexander Nevsky, Vaska and his two women.
Christopher Maclaine, 1951. Photo: Gui de Angulo.
Christopher Maclaine, 1957. Photo: Gui de Angulo.
Andrew Noren, 11/71, photo by Bill Carpenter.
Eureka (1974), by Ernie Gehr.
Ernie Gehr. Photo: Myrel Glick.
Still (1974), by Ernie Gehr.
James Herbert filming Night Horses. Photo: Guy Tucker.
Night Horses (1975), by James Herbert.
Apalachee (1974), by James Herbert.
January (1973), by James Herbert. (2 film stills)
S.M. Eisenstein, New York City, c. 1929. Photographer unknown.
Ron Rice and Amy Rice, Acapulco, May 11, 1963.
Warren Sonbert.
Walter Gutman, July 1981. Photo: Hollis Melton.
David Brooks, ca. 1964.
David Brooks and Willard Maas, during the filming of Orgia, ca. 1966. Photo: John Hawkins.
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