LEADER 00000ngm a2200433Ka 4500 001 833204715 003 OCoLC 005 20130328030942.0 007 vf mbahom 008 130328s2001 xxu067 varus d 040 CUY|beng|cCUY 041 0 rus|afre|deng 245 00 [Tin Hat Trio performs original scores to the puppet films of Ladislaw Starewicz, 3:30 PM, May 19, 2001] |h[videorecording] / |c[animations,] Władysław Starewicz ; [musical performers,] Tin Hat Trio. 257 United States. 260 United States :|b[s.n.,|c2001]. 300 1 videocassette of 1 (67 min.) (NTSC) :|bsi. with live music track, col., b&w, and b&w (tinted) ;|c1/2 in. 500 Title supplied from label. 500 Video consists of theater screen taped during performance of live music. Approximately two minutes of spoken introduction precede the films. Considerable amount of flicker produced by videotaping film projected on screen. Russian and French intertitles are translated live by an off-screen voice, but are largely inaudible over music. 505 0 [The cameraman's revenge (Russia, 1911) -- Insect's Christmas (Russia, 1911) -- Frogland (France, 1923) -- The ant and the grasshopper (Russia, 1911) -- Town rat, country rat (France, 1923)] 506 Pacific Film Archive collection; non-circulating. Access by appt. only.|5CBPF. 511 0 Musical performers: Tin hat trio. 520 8 The whimsical puppet animations of Ladislaw Starewicz are among the most legendary and imaginative works of early cinema. Starewicz's initial interest lay in entomology which he brought to life through film, manipulating tiny beetles in a handmade habitat. Soon his talent for animating insects became apparent as the bugs were called into the service not of science, but of fanciful dramas full of joyful dragonflies, grouchy bumblebees, and swooning beetles. Perhaps his most famous film is The Cameraman's Revenge, a frisky tale of insect infidelity, starring cinema's most passionate six-legged actors. Starewicz left the enclave of the insect behind for the greater animal kingdom, creating such masterpieces as Frogland, brimming with hundreds of life-like croakers, and Town Rat, Country Rat, in which a rural rat is dazzled then duped by his city-slicker cousin. Now the amazing animations of Starewicz will be joined to the bug-eyed scores of the Tin Hat Trio, an edgy Bay Area ensemble, comprised of Mark Orton (guitar), Carla Kihlstedt (violin), and Rob Burger (accordion). They'll wed their energetic avant-folk music to these lush cinematic landscapes, exhibited tonight from archival prints. As the final installment of The Unsilent Film, several of Tin Hat Trio's scores will be world premieres!-Steve Seid. The Cameraman's Revenge (Russia, 1911, 12:40 mins, 35mm, From Cinémathèque Québecoise). Insect's Christmas (Russia, 1911 , 6:25 mins, 16mm, From David Shepard). The Ant and the Grasshopper (Russia, 1911, 5:30 mins, 35mm, From Cinémathèque Québecoise). Frogland (France, 1923, 8:35 mins, 35mm, From David Shepard). -- Pacific Film Archive program note, May 2001. 538 VHS NTSC. 541 PFA 0500-01-9775. PFA collection acquisition 546 Russian and French intertitles. Introduction spoken in English. 655 7 Shorts.|2mim 655 7 Puppet animation.|2mim 690 0 Silent films. 700 1 Starewicz, Władysław,|d1882-1965. 710 2 Tin Hat Trio,|emusic. 740 02 Mestʹ kinematograficheskogo operatora. 740 02 Frogland: the frogs who wanted a king. 740 02 Insects' Christmas. 740 42 The cameraman's revenge. 740 42 Les grenouilles qui demandent un roi. 740 42 The ant and the grasshopper. 740 42 Town rat, country rat. 941 PFA 0500-01-9775. PFA collection acquisition, PFA exhibition 5/19/2001 (3:30) ; 2001/08/17 956 20131017 |bpfmcq|cMR 956 20130326|bpfmcq 957 OCLC xref loaded 20131027 994 C0|bCUY