Pandora's box

A delightful experiment in social satire. A large box floats into view, then begins to revolve and change shape. Doors open and close to reveal quick snatches in color of zooming airplanes, TV commercials, silent movies, a mouth spouting gobbledygook, and, finally a loop of film which is eaten by the box in one gulp. Is the box our world?

Credits

Directed by: Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Written by: Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Ladislaus Vajda
Cast: Francis Lederer, Fritz Kortner, Alice Roberts, Carl Goetz, Michael von Newlinsky, Karl Etlinger, Gustav Diessl, Daisy D'ora, Sig Arno, Louise Brooks
Produced by: Seymour Nebenzal
Cinematography: Günther Krampf

Transcription

foreign [Laughter] [Laughter] [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Laughter] [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Laughter] [Music] foreign [Applause] [Music] [Laughter] foreign [Laughter] [Music] [Music] [Laughter] [Music] [Music] thank you the opaque Matt art overlay in registration with the hand-cut cell counter mat overlay on the single frame rear projection screen superimposes in the standard a b roll printing procedure foreign [Music] [Laughter] [Music] [Laughter] [Laughter] [Music] [Laughter] [Music] [Music] all right foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music]

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Sources

16mm Filmography (legacy record) — title, description, catalog record
YouTube channel: A/V Geeks 16mm Films · video ↗ — title, description, video
Wikidata · Q700736 ↗ — year, length, color, country, genre, credits
16mm Filmography editors — creator

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