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Museum of Modern Art Film Preview 1937

The document is an invitation from the Museum of Modern Art Film Library announcing the showing of its fifth program of foreign motion pictures on March 7, 1937. The program, entitled "The Film in France: The Advance-Guard," includes three French films from the 1920s: The Smiling Madame Beudet (1922), Menilmontant (1924-1925), and Ballet Mecanique (1924). Brief descriptions of each film are provided. Press are invited to attend the Sunday night showing or a Monday afternoon preview.

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Museum of Modern Art Film Preview 1937

The document is an invitation from the Museum of Modern Art Film Library announcing the showing of its fifth program of foreign motion pictures on March 7, 1937. The program, entitled "The Film in France: The Advance-Guard," includes three French films from the 1920s: The Smiling Madame Beudet (1922), Menilmontant (1924-1925), and Ballet Mecanique (1924). Brief descriptions of each film are provided. Press are invited to attend the Sunday night showing or a Monday afternoon preview.

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The Museum of Modern Art

J O H N HAY W H I T N E Y
Pre$ldent
FILM LIBRARY
JOHN E. ABBOTT
Vice-Pre$ident
Corporation 485 Madison Avenue, New York
EDWARD M. M. WARBURG February 2 5 . 1937^ ,
Treasurer Telephone PLaza 3-1981
TO MOTION PICTURE EDITORS
J HN
r ^ M B ^ r TO CITY EDITORS
General Manager
IRIS BARRY
Curator Dear Sirs:

The Museum of Modern Art Film Library will give the initial showing of
its fifth program of foreign motion pictures Sunday night, March 7, at
8:30 in the auditorium of the American Museum of Natural History, en-
trance on West 77th Street between Columbus Avenue and Central Park
West,

The Press is invited to attend the Sunday night showing or, if more
convenient, to come to a Press Preview in Room 502, 125 Sast 46th
Street (Grand Central Palace) at 2:30 Monday afternoon, I'arch first.

Program V, entitled The Film in France: The Advance-Guard, is com-


posed of the following motion pictures:

The Smiling Madame Beudet (1922) Produced by yandal-Delac-Aubert.


Directed by Germaine Dulac, Scenario by Andre Obey from his and
Denys Amiel's play. Acquired through the courtesy of Germaine
Dulac and The Cinematheque Francaise. Here a psychological screen
drama of domestic conflict is presented boldly yet with great sen-
sitiveness. The director, Madame Dulac, has at times used slow mo-
tion and trick photography to express the emotional violence be-
neath the surface of an outwardly calm and commonplace marital ex-
istence,

Menilmontant (1924-1925) Produced and directed by Imitri Kirsanov.


Photography by Kirsanov and Leonco Crouan. with Nadia Sibirskaya
and Yolando Beaulieu, Acquired through the courtesy of Etaitri
Kirsanov. Sxcoptional emotional force and sincerity emanate frea
this remarkable amatour film, made by a young Russian emigr6 in
Paris. The story, compressed to its stark essentials—murder, pov-
erty, love, hungor, birth,death—is told by means of pootic imagery
and bold realism. The direction and photography, and the acting of
Nadia Sibirskaya in the chief rolo, remain extraordinarily fresh
and brilliant in this littlo-known twelvo-yoar-old film which con-
noisseurs have ranked among the few masterpieces of tho screen.

Ballet Mocanique (1924) Producod and directed by Fernand Leger.


Photography by Dudley Murphy, Acquired through tho courtosy of
Mr. Logor. An abstract film in which tho mechanically smiling
lips of Kiki, famous Fronch model, roitorated shots of a country
woman with bundle on shouldor forovor climbing the same flight of
stairs, rhythmically photographed* saucopan lids and egg beaters,
and a number of drawn and painted cubist forms are-all troatod as
geometrical patterns*

For further information, please call mo at Circle 7-7470•

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-'"Sarah Nowmc/oor
Publicity Director

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