Thimble Theatre

16mm 1.37:1 black & white with color tint silent 18fps, 6:07 minutes; completed by Lawrence Jordan; new music vintage circus organ; courtesy of Lawrence Jordan. Cornell's editing tactic is to seduce through the use of dislodged movie tropes. Hence the viewer is cut loose from any normal meanings to pursue the snippets of clips and fragments taken from long-forgotten obscure movies. One is encouraged to let the Cornellian montages wash over them in an endless reverie of ecstatic moments.

Credits

Joseph Cornell (film director)

Complete catalog record
Original source: Title from title frames. | Film | In Process Record. | Originally produced by Filmmakers Showcase in 1938.
Release: Filmmakers Showcase, 1938. | [San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2024.
Physical description: 1 online resource (streaming video file) (7 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound | video file MPEG-4 Flash
Subjects: Experimental films | Motion pictures

Sources

  1. UCLA Library Catalog · record ↗ — title, year, creator, length, format, sound, genre, description, credits, catalog record