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Breathdeath, a trageede in masks
- Title
- Breathdeath, a trageede in masks [motion picture] / produced by Stan VanDerBeek.
- Publication
- New York : Museum of Modern Art, 1963.
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| Status | Vol/Date | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | C.1 REEL 1 OF 1 | Moving image | By appointment only | M16 4193 B C.1 REEL 1 OF 1 C.1 REEL 1 OF 1 | Offsite |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Vanderbeek, Stan.
- Description
- 1 film reel (15 min.) : sd., b&w.; 16 mm.
- Summary
- Utilizing the technique of collage animation, this dark comedy was inspired by the vision of death in 15th-century woodcuts ("The Dance of death") to which the filmmaker compares modern man in a nuclear age. References to early cinema, including Melies, are combined with political commentary. VanDerBeek manipulates newsreel footage mocking social concerns about the end of the world and takes aim at Eisenhower, Nixon, Khrushchev, Hitler and Charlie Chaplin. With its juxtaposed imgaes of Hollywood and warfare, the film, in the words of its creator, "superimposes Groucho Marx on a Karl Marx battlefield."
- Subject
- Credits (note)
- Producer, director, Stan VanDerBeek; soundtrack, Jay Watt.
- Title
- Breathdeath, a trageede in masks [motion picture] / produced by Stan VanDerBeek.
- Imprint
- New York : Museum of Modern Art, 1963.
- Credits
- Producer, director, Stan VanDerBeek; soundtrack, Jay Watt.
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- Added Author
- Vanderbeek, Stan.
- Branch Call Number
- M16 4193 B