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

List of Illustrations

List of Illustrations Illustration 1: Frank Stauffacher in his studio on Montgomery Street, during the editing of Notes on the Port of St. Francis (1952) 4 Illustration 2: Jack Stauffacher’s cover for the catalogue Art in Cinema 14 Illustration 3: Jack Stauffacher in James Broughton’s Mother’s Day (1948) 15 Illustration 4: Oscar Fischinger at work on Motion Painting No. 1 (1947) 20 Illustration 5: From Maya Deren’s Ritual in Transfigured Time (1946) 22 Illustration 6: Program announcement for Art in Cinema’s first series, fall 1946 36 Illustration 7: Berlin intersection in Walther Ruttmann’s Berlin: Die Sinfonie einer Grosstadt (Berlin: Symphony of a Big City, 1927) 38 Illustration 8: Sara Kathryn Arledge, circa 1931 44 Illustration 9: Program announcement for second series, spring 1947 63 Illustration 10: Announcement for the catalogue Art in Cinema 74 Illustration 11: Letter to Frank Stauffacher from Hans Richter, 6/18/47 160 Illustration 12: Harry Smith with “Brain Drawings,” in 1950 162 Illustration 13: Master matrix for the Whitney Brothers’ Twenty-four Variations (1939) 171 Illustration 14: Jordan Belson, circa 1945 173 Illustration 15: Filmstrip from Norman McLaren’s Loops (1952) 174 Illustration 16: Program announcement for fourth series, fall 1948 177 Illustration 17: Frank Stauffacher and James Broughton filming Broughton’s Mother’s Day 180 Illustration 18: Two stills from Sara Kathryn Arledge’s Introspection (1946) 191 Illustration 19: Program announcement for fifth series, fall 1949 204 Illustration 20: Still from Sidney Peterson’s The Lead Shoes (1949) 206 Illustration 21: Still from Frank Stauffacher’s Sausalito (1948) 207 Illustration 22: Light abstraction by Jim Davis 210 Illustration 23: Program announcement for sixth series, spring 1950 215 Illustration 24: Newborn kitten in Alexander Hammid’s The Private Life of a Cat (1945) 216 Illustration 25: Norman McLaren at work on Begone Dull Care (1949) 217 Illustration 26: Announcement for premiere of Ian Hugo’s Ai-Ye (1950) 228 Illustration 27: Program announcement for seventh series, spring 1951 237 Illustration 28: Harry Smith and “Jimbo’s Bop City” (1950) 239 Illustration 29: Three stills from Frank Stauffacher’s Notes on the Port of St. Francis (1952) 245 Illustration 30: Program announcement for ninth series, fall 1953 253 Illustration 31: Still from Jean Isadore Isou’s Venom and Eternity (Traité de bave et d’éternité, circa 1952) 255 Illustration 32: Barbara Stauffacher (Solomon), Frank Stauffacher, and daughter Chloe, circa 1954 270 Illustration 33: Program announcement for tenth series, spring 1954 276 Illustration 34: Still from Ralph Steiner and Willard Van Dyke’s The City (1939) 279 Illustration 35: Program announcement for eleventh series, fall 1954 288 List of Illustrations xi ...