# Montage: Mass A Metaliturgy, 1962

Mass: A Metaliturgy (1962) By Joan Robertson (with Wayne Sourbeer, uncredited) Music: Donald Erb Though this film is not technically in the Montage series, Sourbeer reported that this film was a collaboration between him and actress/artist Joan Robertson. She was making the film as part of a class project and art exhibition. Sourbeer is not credited, but the film has similarities to the Montage series film and the playful early Dada films. It is a series of images shot around a scrap yard, with Robertson interacting with some of the objects there. Unlike the Montage films all of which are in color, this film is black and white. Robertson's sister Jane was also an actress and the female lead of the Wichita independent film The Shortest Straw (1968). 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,…

- Kind: Feature
- Year: 1962
- By: Demolition Kitchen Video
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/MontageMassAMetaliturgy1962)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

Not offered: what its record states (its uploader's public-domain mark, or a licence not shown to be its rights holder's) leaves its US term to decide, and it is dated 1962; under US law a work of that year is free only on facts the site does not hold for it (its US renewal records, or its own country's term on 1 January 1996 for a work published abroad), and otherwise its US term runs to the end of 2057. Unclear is not offered.