Joseph Cornell Cotillion, The Midnight Party (made with Larry Jordan) (c. 1938)
Cotillion; The Children s Party; The Midnight Party. 1940, completed 1968. By Joseph Cornell and Larry Jordan. These three films were run together, so I couldn t tell where one ended and the other began, except that The Midnight Party was printed in sepia. These films are fun. They are about children and we have a lot of fun watching them. Cornell picks humorous momentsI especially remember the face of one little tyke who eats and coughs or sneezes on what he is eating. Freeze frames are used to good effect. There is a lot of footage of performersacrobats, tightrope walkers, knife throwers, chorus girlswho, we assume, perform for the children.
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