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Rose Hobart, pt. 1 of 2

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Joseph Cornell's "Rose Hobart" (1936) is a short, 19 minute experimental film created by the artist Joseph Cornell, who cut and re-edited the Hollywood film "East of Borneo" into one of America's most famous surrealist short films. Cornell was fascinated by the star of East of Borneo, an actress named Rose Hobart, and named his short film after her. The piece consists of snippets from East of Borneo combined with shots from a documentary of an eclipse. When Cornell screened the film, he projected it through a piece of blue glass and slowed the speed of projection to that of a silent film. The original soundtrack is removed, and the film is accompanied instead by "Forte Allegre" and "Belem Bayonne", two songs from Nestor Amaral's "Holiday in Brazil," a record that Cornell had found at a junk shop. (more on part 2)

Channel: Film & Animation
Uploaded: January 1, 1970 at 11:59 am
Author: oobleckboy

Length: 09:12
Rating: 4.70
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Tags: Borneo  Cornell  East  experimental  film  Hobart  Joseph  Rose  

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satanlover3 (January 1, 1970 at 11:59 am)
thank god
zerojeanli (January 1, 1970 at 11:59 am)
fyi: this is an alternate soundtrack, one of several versions cornell might play on his 78's along with the film--in other words the soundtrack is *not* married to the film.
gooserberrytales (January 1, 1970 at 11:59 am)
WOW! You, my friend, are an educated human being! Not only that. But an expert!
leonocusto (January 1, 1970 at 11:59 am)
Oh, I dreamt this yesterday...
oobleckboy (January 1, 1970 at 11:59 am)
Yes, Dali did claim that Cornell "stole" his dream. (I've got that story in the discription of part 2) I've always wondered if Dali was just drawing attention to himself, or if he really was that nuts. Dali was such an opertunistic self-promoter I assume he had wished he'd made the film and wished to claim it as his own. After all, Dali greatest work of art was "Dali".
edmame (January 1, 1970 at 11:59 am)
eternally haunting. think it was dali who saw this and claimed cornell had stolen his dream:P
ChuChu353 (January 1, 1970 at 11:59 am)
This film was also added to the National Film Registry in 2001
ChuChu353 (January 1, 1970 at 11:59 am)
Correction..... I saw it on Turner Classic Movies, not AMC. My bad :(
ChuChu353 (January 1, 1970 at 11:59 am)
I remember seeing this on AMC several years ago and never forgot it. Later, I wound up purchasing the entire "Treasures From American Film Archives" collection just to get this film. It was worth it :)

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