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Director:
Hans Richter
Writers:
Joseph Freeman (screenplay)
Hans Rehfisch (screenplay)
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Release Date:
November 1956 (West Germany) more
Genre:
Fantasy more
Awards:
1 nomination more
User Comments:
Surrealism goes Hollywood more (7 total)

Cast

  (Credited cast)
Jack Bittner ... Joe / Narcissus
Libby Holman
Josh White
Norman Cazanjian
Doris Okerson
John La Touche ... The Gangster (as John Latouche)
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Additional Details

Runtime:
99 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
USA:Approved
Filming Locations:
New York City, New York, USA

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
An experimental film shot for $25,000 in a Manhattan loft. It opened in New York in March, 1947 and went on to win the Venice Film Festival Award for the best original contribution to the progress of cinematography. more
Quotes:
(singing on soundtrack): Oh Venus was born out of sea-foam / oh Venus was born out of brine / but a girl of today / if she is grade A / is assembled upon the assembly line more
Soundtrack:
The Girl with the Pre-Fabricated Heart more

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4 out of 7 people found the following comment useful.
Surrealism goes Hollywood, 29 July 2000
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Author: psteier from New York

A strange attempt to bring the work of surrealist artists to a wider public. The plot is than an average Joe (Jack Bittner) can conjure up dreams that will improve peoples lives. This gives an excuse to view sequences created by several artists, most of whom were living in the US to avoid World War II.

Of most interest for those wishing to seeing the various artist's work, such as Alexander Calder' Circus being animated. I saw the Museum of Modern Art Print and the colors were in poor shape - the blue was almost gone.

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