This was an interesting read, the Avante-Garde movement was quite bigger than I would have imagined considering film was only around for 20 years or so. A few things that surprised me were that in 1928 Universities were offering film classes and independent theatres were popping up all over the North East. The Little Theatre in Rochester is still functioning til this day and is the oldest theatre in the US. That would be a fun class trip!
Professionalism = Commercialism and Amateurism = Artistic Beauty, a quote from this era which I still believe is accurate in today's film world.
A few of the films talked about in the reading sound really interesting and I hope we see some of them in class. Knee Deep in Love 1926, with narration and they never showed the actors faces sounds interesting. I'm a big nature lover and I was surprised that some of the films were trying to make people more aware of cities and their effects on nature even at that time. Flaherty's Manhattan 1921 sounded interesting with the story line showing man over nature and Weinberg showing mans lost connection with the wilderness. It's amazing that the points they were trying to make approx. 80 years ago are still valid today.
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