Berlin Symphony of a Great City 1928 - DVD W/ Rare original Max Butting score!

Description: BERLIN, SYMPHONY OF A GREAT CITY WITH EXTREMELY RARE ORIGINAL SCORE DVD DESCRIPTION:An invaluable photographic record of life in Berlin and a timeless demonstration of the cinema's ability to enthrall on a purely visceral level, BERLIN, SYMPHONY OF A GREAT CITY (1927, 62 min.) offers a mesmerizing kaleidoscopic view of a single day in the life of the bustling metropolis. Also included is OPUS I (1921, 12 min.), OPUS II (1921, 4 min.), OPUS III (1924, 4 min.) & OPUS IV (1925, 5 min.) This rare series is an intricate example of the German avant-garde cinema. Director Walther Ruttmann's hand-colored film is an exploration of the geometry of movement. The Opus series was commissioned to address the German question of what is, and what is not art. ADDITIONAL DETAILS: This is a visual symphony in five movements celebrating the Berlin of 1927: the people, the place, the everyday details of life on the streets. Director Walter Ruttman, an experimental filmmaker, approached cinema in similar ways to his Russian contemporary Dziga Vertoz, mixing documentary, abstract, and expressionist modes for a non-narrative style that captured the life of his countrymen. But where Vertov mixed his observations with examples of the communist dream in action, Ruttman re-creates documentary as, in his own words, "a melody of pictures." Within the loose structure of a day in the life of the city (with a prologue that travels from the country into the city on a barreling train), the film takes us from dawn to dusk, observing the silent city as it awakens with a bustle of activity, then the action builds and calms until the city settles back into sleep. But the city is as much the architecture, the streets, and the machinery of industry as it is people, and Ruttman weaves all these elements together to create a portrait in montage, the poetic document of a great European city captured in action. Held together by rhythm, movement, and theme, Ruttman creates a documentary that is both involving and beautiful to behold. The haunting score by Timothy Brock is lyrical and dramatically involving, complementing the mood and movement marvelously. Also included is the avant-garde OPUS Series, an abstract study in animated shapes and movement which include the extremely rare original scores by Max Butting.*This is archival footage taken from original film stock. The footage is over eighty years old, there was no HD, and no HDMI and the footage looks like old film footage. This footage has been re-mastered to 480p, re synced and color corrected. It is amazing for it’s age. There is no better quality version of this vintage film in existence. Please check out my other auctions for additional DVD's packed with footage of vintage television commercials, historical films & images, world's fair film & images, Disney home movie film & Images, presidential film & images and more!This is a MOD (Manufactured on Demand) DVD which is professionally authored on DVD-R. The disc is printed, no paper labels. We generally sell bulk to libraries, schools and research facilities and our discs are not retail packed. This disc will be packed in a plain sleeve and will be shipped in a premium bend resistant mailer.We offer economical options for MOD titles with excellent production quality, basic menus, no expensive frills, reasonably priced safe/fast shipping with tracking, insurance and friendly service. Please have a look at our other titles. $3.75 shipping to the USA with tracking$3.95 international letter rate shippingPlease be sure that you have read the entire item description. Please be sure that you want this item prior to bidding/buying. Please ask all questions prior to bidding/buying.Thank you for looking! A NOTE TO ALL BIDDERS AND TO EBAY: This production is copyrighted by and owned in full by me, eBay user ID: public_films01 who legally does business (DBA) as Public Films Ltd. I have the legal right as the copyright holder to manufacture, duplicate, market and sell this derived production. This DVD is protected under U.S and International copyright law Title 17, U.S Code Sections 501 & 506. Unauthorized reproduction, exhibition or distribution is prohibited by federal law.

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