Rose Hobart, pt. 2 of 2

The film was first shown in 1936 at Julian Levy's New York City gallery in a matinee program featuring short films from Cornell's collection. Levy called the program "Goofy Newsreels." This took place around the same time as the first surrealism exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art.

Salvador Dalí was in the audience, but halfway through the film, he knocked over the projector in a rage. "My idea for a film is exactly that, and I was going to propose it to someone who would pay to have it made," he said. "I never wrote it down or told anyone, but it is as if he had stolen it." Other versions of Dalí's accusation tend to the more poetic: "He stole it from my subconscious!" or even "He stole my dreams!"

After the Dalí incident, Cornell did not show the film again until the 1960s, when, at the behest of Jonas Mekas, it was screened again for a public audience. When the first print was made from Cornell's original in 1969, Cornell chose a 'rose' tint instead of the normal blue. (wikipedia)

Category:

Film & Animation

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• Joseph
• Cornell
• Rose
• Hobart
• experimental
• film
• East
• Borneo
• blue

[FungusMossGnosis]

Re: Ignorance...

Easy to forgive, hard to overcome.

[RroseMutt]

3:08 - I wanna monkey, too! Monkey tender, a round of monkeys on me.  Monkeys for all my friends!

[IToldHimNotToDoIt]

The jump and other errors seem like lazy editing and poor preparation...very unintentionally ahead of its time...30 years later Warhol would be making the same mistakes intentionally in his films.

[aSongScout]

I came here from the wikipedia article about the 30 degree rule

[LauritZenc]

5:43 = bad jump cut

[satya1ray]

Wow....thank you so much, really needed to watch this

[Pualdanger]

forgive me for my ignorance, but I just find this boring..lol

I know it's probably because I don't get it, but that's just my opinion..

[zombielove77]

Appreciate also the historical context you provide here. Cheers ...

[PappaWheelie]

Isn't it Nestor Amoral?

[trylonperisphere]

I just read an article about the Dali incident and it said Dali called Cornell a skunk. The article calls this the first appropriated film, IMO making it perfect for youtube. :)

Oddly enough, I once took an art (futurism, dadaism, surrealism) history class with the executor of Cornell's estate, Wayne Andrews. He didn't discuss Cornell's films much.

[M4rL3igh]

I love this and the song that starts is just wonderful.