Moods of the Sea

Moods of the Sea

10 mins | Jan. 2, 1942

A recently unearthed experimental documentary of the crashing sea set to Mendelssohn's "Fingal's Cave." An example of the filmmakers' "new cinema" theory which held that film should be more like music than literature. This film is based solely on its arrangement of images.

Moods of the Sea

10 mins | Jan. 2, 1942

Moods of the Sea
A recently unearthed experimental documentary of the crashing sea set to Mendelssohn's "Fingal's Cave." An example of the filmmakers' "new cinema" theory which held that film should be more like music than literature. This film is based solely on its arrangement of images.
IMDb rating 6.8
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Original title Moods of the Sea
Directors Slavko Vorkapich, John Hoffman
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