Finding Sounds To Translate Images
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By the time of his death in 1987, Raymond Rohauer had built a profitable distribution empire of classic films by navigating the treacherous shoals of copyright ownership with such fearless entrepreneurial zeal that his more academically minded film collector rival and historian, William K. Everson, dubbed Rohauer “King of the Film Freebooters.”
Among the many cinematic treasures that Rohauer acquired, administered, and tagged with his own personalized head credit (regardless of their origin), were a group of brilliant experimental short films undertaken by such artists as Man Ray, Hans Richter, Fernand Leger, and others keen to court the 20th century’s newest and most tantalizing medium of expression.
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