First American edition. 
Price: 25.00 USD

The festival is introduced on the second page by Martin J. Lewis and H. S. Rosenwald, Managing Directors of the Fifth Avenue Playhouse: "...The surrealistic, abstract or fantastic film is designed purposely to disturb and shock one's balance. Surrealism attempts, we are told, 'to discover and explore the more real than the real world behind the real'. In the surrealist film it is never the plot that receives atention but rather the wealth of innuendo which accompanies each action and which forms an emotional pattern far richer than the usual straight story..."

Among the films shown in the festival [with notes on each in the program] are the American classics "Lot in Sodom" and "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Watson and Webber, Cocteau's "Blood of the Poet", Chaplin's first feature--a fantastically burlesque version of "Carmen"--, the premier showing of Lotte Reineger's "The Adventures of Prince Achmed", "The Living Dead" by Richard Oswald, "The Robber Symphony" by Frederick Feher, "The Blue Light" by Bela Balacz, "Emak Bakia" by Man Ray, Carl Dreyer's "Vampire", and what the program calls "the first American produced surrealist film" "Object Lesson" by Christopher Young.

A rare program. 
Price: 150.00 USD