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Miss Mend [electronic resource] / directed by Boris Barnet and Fyodor Otsep ; produced by David Shepard and Jeffery Masino

Additional Titles
Miss Mend : an adventure serial in three parts
Published
Los Angeles : Flicker Alley, 1926-2009.
Physical Description
1 online resource (284 min.).
Additional Creators
Barnet, Boris Vasilʹevich, 1902-1965, Israel, Robert, 1963-, Masino, Jeffery, Olenina, Ana, Ot︠s︡ep, Fedor Aleksandrovich, 1895-1949, Pozdorovkin, Maxim, and Shepard, David
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Language Note
A Whirlwind Vision of an Imagined America: This edition in English.
Parts 1-3: This edition silent with English intertitles and musical background.
The Music Behind Miss Mend: The Invisible Orchestra: This edition in English.
Contents
Part 1 -- Part 2 -- Part 3 -- A whirlwind vision of an imagined America -- The music behind Miss Mend : the invisible orchestra.
Summary
A Whirlwind Vision of an Imagined America: A documentary by David Shepard and Jeffery Masino exploring the creative forces and cultural influences behind Miss Mend, an action-packed adventure serial in three feature-length episodes that was produced in Russia in 1926. Film historians Ana Olenina and Maxim Pozdorovkin wrote and edited the documentary.
Parts 1-3: Miss Mend, an action-packed adventure serial in three feature-length episodes, was produced in Russia with the goal of rivaling, and possibly even surpassing, the most entertaining American movies of the 1920s. Instead of the avant-garde works of Sergei Eisenstein and Dziga Vertov, Russian audiences were enchanted by fast-moving American films starring serial queens like Pearl White, swashbuckling heroes like Douglas Fairbanks, and comedians from the Keystone Cops to Lloyd, Keaton and Chaplin. Miss Mend meets them all head-on and hardly stops for breath. It features beautiful location photography, impressive stunt scenes; horse, car and boat chases, radio towers, jazz bands and even a spectacular train wreck, interspersed with visual references to German film classics like Nosferatu, Caligari and Dr. Mabuse, The film's heroine, Vivian Mend, is an elegant urban professional who earns her own living and raises a child without the help of any man. But the film, partially set in an imagined America where everything is new and progressive (from technology to social relations and lifestyles) also includes a few more-than-pointed comments on labor relations, racism, excessive wealth, gratuitous violence and even rape.
TThe Music Behind Miss Mend: The Invisible Orchestra: his documentary, produced by by David Shepard and Jeffery Masino and narrated by the composer Robert Israel, features actual recording sessions for Miss Mend, an action-packed adventure serial in three feature-length episodes that was produced in Russia in 1926.
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Duration
["04:43:27"]
Note
Title from resource description page (viewed Apr. 4, 2014).
Other Forms
Previously released as DVD.
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