Slavko Vorkapich

This short experimental film tells the story of a man who comes to Hollywood to become a star, only to fail and be dehumanized (he is identified by the number 9314 written on his forehead), after which he dies and goes on to Heaven where the number is removed. (imdb)

A recently unearthed experimental documentary of the crashing sea set to Mendelssohn's "Fingal's Cave." An example of the filmmakers' "new cinema" theory which held that film should be more like music than literature. This film is based solely on its arrangement of images. (imdb)

Conquer by the Clock was a short dramatic propaganda film produced by the RKO Radio Pictures in 1942 to encourage wartime industrial production. (Wikipedia)

Abstract stop motion.

Surrealism, United States, Black & White, Short Film, Mono. (themoviedb)

This dazzling stop-motion animation provided Vorkapich with a forum to demonstrate complex perceptual theories related to the persistence of vision and phi phenomenon. The dance of objects and their movements before the camera lens –somewhat similar to Oskar Fischinger's abstractions – illustrate many visual sensations playfully executed by Vorkapich.

Oscar nominated short documentary from 1944 about refugees and the 5 year program to make them Americans.

An alcoholic former opera singer resents the promising career of her son and his recent engagement to an actress. (imdb)

A party is underway in Manhattan and the city joins in with the revels. The only surviving footage from 1928s Manhattan Cocktail thanks to creator and montage artist extraordinaire Slavko Vorkapic keeping all his work. (letterboxd)

A single composite shot from 1929s The Wolf of Wall Street. It's only a few seconds long, but there's so much going on. Industry pours into a temple of Mammon mincing-machine, its handle is cranked and out pours ticker tape. (letterboxd)

The montage sequence from 1929s Sins of the Fathers showing the introduction of the 18th Amendment and an imagined crazy last night of drinking as the clocks edge closer to midnight. (letterboxd)

Short film set to an interlude from Siegfried by Richard Wagner, that immerses itself in the rhythms and sights of a forest: grazing deer; bears and their cubs; roaring rivers; giant trees scaring poor chipmunks.