I have had no success in tracking down a movie called Number 9 (or Number Nine), released in 1954. I am trying to find out if it has been released on DVD, although it looks as though it has not.
If someone could tell me the name of the main actors/actresses in the film, I could perhaps track it down.
If any movie enthusiasts could help me out on this I would be most grateful.
THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!
2006-10-08 10:34:27 · 5 answers · asked by Jenny 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
Good Question...It seems impossible to actually find any info on this film at all. I've found that the director is Harry Smith, the visionary experimentalist, he has also created numbers 1-15. which seem to be of the same genre. I must say the films do look interestesting though.
From the review of Heaven And Earth Magic (1962) dir. Harry Smith
"This poetic, hypnotic, and phantasmagoric black and white animated feature is an allegory about what happens after our heroine loses a "very valuable watermelon", and her subsequent toothache, dentistry, transportation to heaven, and earthly return "from being eaten by Max Müller on the day Edward the Seventh dedicated the Great Sewer of London" (Smith). This plot is depicted through magical and alchemical symbology: cats, brooms, salamander, Egyptian sarcophagi, spinning wheels, a Muybridge-like skeletal horse, an egg that hatches a hammer that rings a deep bell, an opened and closed umbrella (i.e., the portable church), etc. There are water symbols and sounds, crashing and breaking sounds, and animal cries of all sorts. In a sequence like Max Ernst's sketches "La femme cent têtes" (The hundred headless woman), the outline of a female facial profile is filled with moving objects; later, two profiles face each other to form the classic Gestalt illusion of a chalice. In one transformation sequence, a creature with spoon-like extensions splits in half, has other parts attached to the new top and bottom, and then becomes two water creatures. All this material is supra-organized in varied cycles into a vast spiritual narrative."
2006-10-10 04:26:37 · answer #1 · answered by ed.knight 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Whats so special about number 9. Harry smith made 18 films and 15 of them were called after a number ranging from 1 to 15?
2006-10-12 06:27:31 · answer #2 · answered by STEVE MACK 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you may mean Plan 9 from Outer Space. a low budget b movie about vampires/aliens from 1959. its so funny. my friend has it on video but i'm not sure how you'd get hold of a copy.
2006-10-08 17:40:41 · answer #3 · answered by peeve 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
check out internet movie database
http://www.imdb.com
2006-10-08 17:44:14 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try my favorite site to answer this one... it's free! http://www.allmovie.com/
2006-10-08 20:14:41 · answer #5 · answered by Mike S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋