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A list of avant-garde and experimental films made before 1930. Though some had dedicated music scores written for them, or were synchronized to records, nearly all of these films were silent. Several of them involve color, through tinting, hand-painting or even photographic color.

List

See also

• Cinéma pur

References

• Paul Rotha and Roger Manvell, "Movie Parade: A Pictorial Survey of the Cinema" London: The Studio, 1936
• Jay Leyda, "Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film" Princeton University Press, 1983 (originally published in 1960)
• Parker Tyler, "Underground Film: A Critical History" New York: Da Capo Press, 1995 (originally published in 1969)
• David Curtis, "Experimental Cinema" New York: Universe Books, 1970
• P. Adams Sitney, "Visionary Film" New York: Oxford University Press, 1979
• Jan-Christoper Horak, ed., Lovers of Cinema: the first American film avant-garde, 1919–1945. University of Wisconsin Press, 1998. ISBN 978-0-299-14684-9

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99. "Jennifer Baldwin, "The Tell-Tale Lens"".
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101. "The Twenty-Four Dollar Island (1927)". Ferdy On Films.
102. "Zvenigora (no 52)". 5 February 2010.
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105. "Brumes d'automne (1929)". IMDb.
106. "BFI Screenonline: Drifters (1929)". www.screenonline.org.uk.
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111. "La perle". IMDb.
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113. "BFI Screenonline: Tusalava (1929)". www.screenonline.org.uk.
114. "Unseen cinema. 1, The mechanized eye. Episode 16, "Oil" : a symphony in motion / Cineric, Inc. presents; by Jean Michelson and M.G. MacPherson for Artkino; direction, M.G. MacPherson". catalog.library.vanderbilt.edu. Retrieved 29 January 2022. Unrelated to the U.S. distributor of Soviet films, Artkino was the name chosen by two amateur movie enthusiasts, Jean D. Michelson and M.G. McPherson, from Burbank, California. In the late 1920s and early 1930s they completed several fiction shorts, which they shot in 35mm, including "War Under the Sea" (1929), "The Trap" (1930), and "Oil" (1930-33). —JAN-CHRISTOPHER HORAK

External links

• Cinema of the United States - 1879-1894 - The first American movies - Experimental silent films on YouTube
• "Nude Woman by the Waterfall" - 1920 - Claude Friese-Greene - Fragment on YouTube

• Lists of avant-garde films by decade
• Lists of 1900s films by genre
• Lists of 1910s films by genre
• Lists of 1920s films by genre
• 1910s avant-garde and experimental films
• 1920s avant-garde and experimental films