Manhatta (1921)

Director	Paul Strand and Charles Sheeler
Producer
Contributors	Distributed in this version (1997) by Glenn Photo Supply
Length	9 min
B&W/Color	b&w
UO Library Catalog description:	An avant-garde short film about New York seen in terms of its geometric architecture and the movement patterns of ships and people. Based on a poem by Walt Whitman
Call #	FILM Ma221
Genre	experimental
Rare	no
Online	yes; YouTube.
Copyright status	public domain
Physical condition	good
Oregon-related	no

Notes:

Wikipedia. Strand was a photographer, Sheeler a painter. “The primary objective of the film is to explore the relationship between photography and film; camera movement is kept to a minimum, as is incidental motion within each shot. Each frame provides a view of the city that has been carefully arranged into abstract compositions.”