Mme. Hermine Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 http://www.chicagofilmarchives.org/collections/index.php/Detail/Object/Show/object_id/15850 Starts with a few seconds of a slideshow and then goes to a few minutes of film of Bolm in the studio with his students. Link to comment
sandik Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 My "watch this" file is getting bigger and bigger... Link to comment
pherank Posted April 8, 2017 Share Posted April 8, 2017 Thankfully, they got the speed of the silent film footage right - presumably much easier to do now that everyone converts to digital video (no more putting 13 frame per second film in a 24 fps projector). I like the looks of their "modern" piece at 3:41. I just wish there was a lot more to be seen. Link to comment
Quiggin Posted April 8, 2017 Share Posted April 8, 2017 I wonder which of Prokofiev's scores was used for the modern piece – "Le Pas de Acier"? I do like the movement of the big triangles. Bolm also choreographed the first version of "Apollo" which premiered (with Ruth Page as Terpsichore) in the US two weeks before Balanchine's version in Paris. Sympathetically reviewed in detail in the New York Times by Olin Downes. You're right, pherank, about the smoothness of the silent footage. I remember seeing a silent version of "Sunrise" where they double printed every other frame, which gave the feeling of time being put through a kind of kaleidoscope and back again. Link to comment
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