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A Bronx morning is a portrait of a place and time, simultaneously a documentary, an avant-garde experiment, and an amateur film–although its compositional beauty and complex editing disguise that it is a 21-year old’s first attempt at moviemaking. Architectural abstractions are only part of Leyda’s portrait. The film soon naturalizes its abstractions into a vibrant vision of children’s games and adult commerce on the summer streets of the Bronx, the New York borough northeast of Manhattan.

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Arrival in the Bronx is shown with a view from an elevated train as it enters the city. Then follows a montage of sights from the Bronx. Many typical neighborhood activities are shown, along with scenes from many local businesses.

A Bronx Morning (1931, Jay Leyda) [576p].mkv

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The post Jay Leyda – A Bronx Morning (1931) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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In 1954, Upton Sinclair donated 100,000 feet of film shot by Sergei Eisenstein in Mexico to the Museum of Modern Art. From this footage, Jay Leyda, assisted by Manfred Kirchheimer, created an almost four hour long assemblage titled “Eisenstein’s Mexican Film: Episodes for Study.” The film is silent with explanatory titles. The MOMA footage was later re-edited by Grigori Aleksandrov to create the 1979 version of “Que Viva Mexico”.

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In 1930, Eisenstein, Alexandrov and Tisse began their ambitious Mexican film, with financing collected by the Upton Sinclairs. A year later the backers halted the project before filming was completed. Since then, parts of the filmed footage have been released, but not in the form intended by its makers. The aim of the present film is instructional – to summarize Eisenstein’s film plan and to restore a few fragmentary sequences as they came from Tisse’s camera, without attempting to convey the final form this footage would have taken. The film includes material from the prologue and from the three novellas on which shooting was completed: “Sandunga,” “Fiesta” and “Maguey.”

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Subtitles:English intertitles

The post Sergei M. Eisenstein & Jay Leyda – Eisenstein’s Mexican Film: Episodes for Study (1958) first appeared on Cinema of the World.