Home Movies #20: Dance Tests (2016)
Documentary • 6m
Director: Shirley Clarke
Cast: Bert Clarke, Daniel Nagrin
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Home Movies #20: Dance Tests dates from 1953 and shows Shirley Clarke working on her film technique before she shot her first "official" film later that year--'Dance in the Sun' starring the dancer Daniel Nagrin.
Also available on Library of Congress Streaming
Directors: Winsor McCay & J. Stuart Blackton
Director: Winsor McCay
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Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray has excellent master in SDR and a good encode. BD caps here.
Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray has poor audio: The 2.0 is fine but unremarkable, the 5.1 is presumably an upmix with a botched, strongly raised LFE channel which makes the entire track unlistenable on well-tuned equipment. Audio graphs here.
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While it's included on both Criterion The Palm Beach Story extras and Arrow's Sullivan's Travels' extras, Criterion uses a different source and is vastly superior, see caps
Director: Ebrahim Golestan
Director: Ebrahim Golestan
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