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Montage V: How To Play Pinball, 1963

Demolition Kitchen Video

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Montage V: How To Play Pinball (1963)

Music: Jean Eichelberger Ivey

Titles: Wilbur R. Elsea

Film: Wayne D. Sourbeer

A kaleidoscopic whirl of imagery from pinball machine art, presented in true montage fashion with rapid editing, overlapping dissolves, and off-center camera angles. It also features a score by noted composer Jean Eichelberger Ivey. The film ends, sadly one supposes, with a big TILT.

The Montage Series

By Ben Urish

Beginning in 1951 Wichita, Kansas had a vibrant and adventurous film society. The Wichita Film Society (WFS) was a focal point for those interested in the cinema arts and was both an institution of education, exhibition, and a hub for other aspects of the local art and theater scenes.

By the late 1950s, the WFS had several members and frequent patrons who wanted to make films of their own and in 1959, three of them formed Montage Productions, named after their interest in the films (and film theories) of Sergei Eisenstein and V.I Pudovkin. The films in the series eventually were tied together by two broad and broadly defined attributes: 1) they were about people or places (or both) in Kansas, and 2) the films were artistic representations of other artistic representations, broadly defined. The series lasted until 1965 by which time the members' careers took them away from Wichita and each other. Each film had its premiere at a WFS screening.

Credits as they appear in the films and a brief synopsis of the films are printed below.

In the early and mid-1980s, I researched the history of The Wichita Film Society and as a result, came across the information about the Montage films written here.

Through other local filmmakers and former WFS members, I was able to get in touch with Corban LePell, Wayne Sourbeer, Richard Wright, and Bruce Conner. They shared their memories and insights and either loaned me copies of their films or told me where to find them. Eventually, the WFS rescreened their films for the public along with more recent films by local filmmakers.

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Credit
Demolition Kitchen Video
Language
English
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