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THE LIFE AND DEATH OF 9413: A HOLLYWOOD EXTRA
A collaboration between French-born screenwriter / filmmaker Robert Florey (née Robert Gustave Fuchs), a former assistant of Louis Feuillade, and Serbian-born cinematographer / filmmaker Slavko Vorkapich (née Slavoljub Vorkapić), THE LIFE AND DEATH OF 9413 concerns the plight of a young actor in ...
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THE LOVE OF ZERO
Robert Florey, a French cineaste, and William Cameron Menzies, a top art director, combined talents to show the influence of THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI (1920) and other European film experiments which tended to be ignored by Hollywood productions. Florey went on to make the the expressionistic M...
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SKYSCRAPER SYMPHONY
The hard-edged SKYSCRAPER SYMPHONY stands in contrast to other New York scenic newsreels produced throughout the 1920s. Robert Florey's camera looks straight up the domineering concrete behemoths in skewed perspectives that attempt to emulate musical forms. — Bruce Posner
"The most fantastic eff...
