Treadle and bobbin

Duration: 9

Year Published: 1954

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: The familiar, old-fashioned sewing machine is here transformed into a wonderful abstraction of movement of color. Wheaton Galentine catches continual rhythm with arabesque camera-phrasing, leaving the viewer intrigued with the mystery inherent in a familiar object., Shows movement and rhythms of treadle, bobbin, thread, and fly wheel of the redoubtable sewing machine. MCLS subject heading: Experimental, Miscellaneous & Abstract Films.

Complete Record: The familiar, old-fashioned sewing machine is here transformed into a wonderful abstraction of movement of color. Wheaton Galentine catches continual rhythm with arabesque camera-phrasing, leaving the viewer intrigued with the mystery inherent in a familiar object. , NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.

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New York Public Library, Visual Studies Workshop

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