Art in Cinema: Documents Toward a History of the Film Society

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Contents List of Illustrations x Acknowledgments xii Introduction 1 The Documents Conversation with Jack Stauffacher, 8/14/99 13 Letter to Arthur Rosenheimer Jr. from Richard Foster, 7/31/46 16 Letter to Lewis Jacobs from Frank Stauffacher, 8/1/46 20 Letter to Maya Deren from Frank Stauffacher, 8/2/46 21 Letter to Richard Foster from Maya Deren, 8/2/46 22 Letter to James and John Whitney from Frank Stauffacher, 8/3/46 24 Letter to Frank Stauffacher from Maya Deren, 8/10/46 25 Letter to Arthur Rosenheimer Jr. from Frank Stauffacher, 8/20/46 27 Letter to Maya Deren from Frank Stauffacher, 8/20/46 28 Letter to Luis Buñuel from Frank Stauffacher, 8/22/46 29 Letter to Frank Stauffacher from Douglass Crockwell, 8/24/46 30 Letter to Jay Leyda from Frank Stauffacher, 8/25/46 31 Letter to Frank Stauffacher from Douglass Crockwell, 8/31/46 32 Letter to Peggy Guggenheim from Grace L. McCann Morley, 8/31/46 32 Letter to Man Ray from Frank Stauffacher, 9/5/46 33 Letter to Frank Stauffacher from Hans Richter, 9/6/46 34 Letter to Hans Richter from Frank Stauffacher, 9/9/46 35 Program Announcement for Art in Cinema’s First Series, 9/46 37 Letter to James and John Whitney from Frank Stauffacher, 9/22/46 39 Letter to Frank Stauffacher from James Broughton, 9/24/46 40 Letter to Mrs. Noble Hamilton from Edward J. Soph, 9/26/46 40 Letter to Frank Stauffacher from James Broughton, 9/26/46 41 Letter to Edward J. Soph from Mrs. Noble Hamilton, 9/28/46 42 Alfred Frankenstein, “Art and Music,” from the San Francisco Chronicle, 10/6/46 42 Letter to Richard Foster from Sara Kathryn Arledge, 10/9/46 45 Program Notes for the 10/11/46 Presentation 45 Letter to Frank Stauffacher from Grace L. McCann Morley, 10/22/46 47 Letter to Richard Foster from Margaret Wright and Una Atkinson, 10/24/46 48 Program Notes for the 10/25/46 Presentation 49 Letter to Mrs. Noble Hamilton from Paul Ballard, 10/30/46 50 Program Notes for the 11/1/46 Presentation 51 Letter to Herman G. Weinberg from Frank Stauffacher, 11/8/46 54 Letter to Frank Stauffacher from Hans Richter, 11/9/46 55 Letter to Frank Stauffacher from Lewis Jacobs, 11/12/46 56 Letter to Paul Ballard from Frank Stauffacher, 11/46 57 Letter to Frank Stauffacher from Robert Florey, 2/47 [?] 58 Letter to James W. Moore from Frank Stauffacher, 2/6/47 59 Letter to Frank Stauffacher from James W. Moore, 2/7/47 60 Letter to Frank Stauffacher from James W. Moore, 2/28/47 61 Letter to Frank Stauffacher from Eli Willis, 3/7/47 62 Program Announcement for Art in Cinema’s Second Series, 3/47 64 Program Announcement for the First University of California at Berkeley Series 65 Letter to Frank Stauffacher from Emlen Etting, 3/26/47 67 Letter to James W. Moore from Frank Stauffacher, 3/27/47 67 Letter to Frank Stauffacher from James W. Moore, 3/31/47 68 Letter to Frank Stauffacher from Curtis Harrington, 4/3/47 69 Program Notes for the 4/4/47 Presentation 70 Letter to Curtis Harrington from Frank Stauffacher, 4/28/47 72 Letter to Frank Stauffacher from Kenneth Anger, 4/29/47 73 Letter to Frank Stauffacher from Curtis Harrington, 5/6/47 75 Facsimile of Art in Cinema Catalogue (published late 5/47) 75 Grace L. McCann Morley, “Foreword” 77 Richard Foster and Frank Stauffacher, “Introductory Notes” 78 Henry Miller, “Introduction” 80 Hans Richter, “A History of the Avantgarde” 82 Elie Faure, “The Art of Cineplastics (Excerpts)” 96 Man Ray 99 Luis Buñuel, “Notes on the Making of Un Chien Andalou” 101 John and James Whitney, “Audio Visual Music” 103 Erich Pommer, “The Origin of Dr. Caligari” 107 Oskar Fischinger, “My Statements Are in My Work” 110 Maya Deren, “The Camera As a Creative Medium” 113 George Leite, “The Creative Arts and The Collective Film” 115 “Film Series One Program Notes” 117 “First Program—Some Precursors” 117 “Second Program—The French Avantgarde” 120 “Third Program—Continental Avantgarde” 122 “Fourth Program—Non-objective Form Synchronized with Music” 123 “Fifth Program—The Animated Film as an Art Form” 124 “Sixth Program—Contemporary Experimental Films in America” 126 “Seventh Program—Fantasy into Documentary” 132 “Eighth Program—Experiments in the Fantastic and the Macabre” 133 “Ninth...