Le ballet mécanique (FRA 1923, Fernand Léger and Dudley Murphy). Credit: EYE Filmmuseum Amsterdam. Photographs of the nitrate print by Olivia Kristina Stutz, ERC Advanced Grant FilmColors.
Please note that some of the images have been flipped horizontally to match the corresponding archival file from EYE Filmmuseum.
For the history of the film and its restoration see also Catanese, Rossella; Edmonds, Guy; Lameris, Bregt (2015): Hand-Painted Abstractions. Experimental Color in the Creation and Restoration of Ballet Mécanique. In:
The Moving Image, 15,1, pp. 92‒98.
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Selected Analyses:
Street, Sarah; Yumibe, Joshua (2019): Chromatic Modernity. Color, Cinema, and Media of the 1920s. New York: Columbia University Press, on pp. 185–189. View Quote
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