Avant Garde: Experimental Cinema of the 1920s & 30s

"Twenty-five influential experimental films created during an era when the cinema was still establishing its own formal grammar are collected in this special DVD set. Including works by Man Ray, Orson Welles, Marcel Duchamp, Sergei Eisenstein, Jean Epstein, and many more, the material on Avant Garde: Experimental Cinema of the 1920s and '30s has been transferred to disc in the full-frame aspect ratio of 1.33:1 and the audio has been mastered in Dolby Digital Stereo. Most of the films are silent; English subtitles for foreign-language title cards are included. Musical accompaniment is included for the silent shorts, and as a bonus this set features historical notes from film critic Elliott Stein."