The Foundation has transferred nine of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy's films to DVD, using the best 16 mm and 35 mm prints and negatives we could locate. We are now able to make these films available to the general public.
Moholy-Nagy shot most of his movies as silent films, but he usually played phonograph records when he projected them. We have added music to two of his classic black/white movies of the early 1930s, Ein Lichtspiel schwarz weiss grau and Gross-Stadt Zigeuner, according to his original concept. His documentary motion picture, Lobsters, shot in England, was originally released in two versions: a silent one with intertitles and the version we offer, which has music and voice-over narration.
We are at last able to present two rarely-seen color films of the 1940s. Moholy-Nagy lectured to Design Workshops, his silent film on the program of the Institute of Design, as he traveled around the United States to promote his school. We have added a voice-over and music to this film to give today's viewer the same information. We felt that the music of Mark Lincoln Braun was a perfect accompaniment for the Institute of Design student film, Do Not Disturb.
We think that Laszlo Moholy-Nagy would have been as pleased as we are with the presentation of his most important films on the convenient medium of DVD.
For a limited time we also offer a number of black/white, archivally produced Estate reprints from original negatives of the 1920s and 1930s.
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