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“I thought, how interesting it would be if we used the film in a different method. So far it had been used like a novel to tell a story, or else as a documentary and there was nothing else in between, and I wanted to use the film as a poetic medium, to do a poem like T.S. Eliot’s poems, and do it entirely visually and that’s how I came about to do my film I called POEM 8 and as far as I know it was the first film that experimented in that as a poetic medium.” – Emlen Etting

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Featuring Elizabeth Binney Montgomery, Agnes Hitchock, Caresse Crosby.
“Etting was a pioneer who created cinematic forms that embodied poetic belief. This film represents a quest for an intensified perception of everyday life. Combining subjectivity, allegory, and lyric, POEM 8 foreshadows a method of filmmaking that would only be pursued by others a decade and a half later.” – R. Bruce Elder

Poem 8 (1932, Emlen Etting).mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	19 min 23 s
Size: 	405 MiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	826x576 
Aspect ratio:  	1.434
Frame rate: 	17.982 fps
Bit rate: 	2 660 kb/s
BPP: 	0.311
Audio
#1:  	2.0ch AC-3 @ 256 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/59507CFE9E671E3/Poem_8_(1932,_Emlen_Etting).mkv

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