Most Popular Ralph Steiner Trailers
Total trailers found: 14
Look Park Trailer (1974)
01 November 1974
Look Park presents close up shots of a country stream viewed in bright sunlight. The film opens with wide shots of the park to establish the location of the water, then focuses in very tight on the abstract reflections and shadows.
The World Today: The Black Legion - Shadow of Fascism Over America Trailer (1937)
01 January 1937
“Unhappy with the limited structure of league newsreels, Nykino, a splinter filmmaking collective, produced a MARCH OF TIME-type series under the banner THE WORLD TODAY.
The Plow That Broke the Plains Trailer (1936)
10 May 1936
A documentary about what happened to the Great Plains of the United States and Canada when uncontrolled farming destroyed the soil and led to the Dust Bowl.
People of the Cumberland Trailer (1937)
01 December 1937
The film takes place in rural Tennessee, where communities have experienced economic and environmental devastation created by the coal mining industry.
The City Trailer (1939)
26 May 1939
A prescient documentary about city planning, which presents idyllic suburbs and nuclear families as a solution to the chaos, poverty and social decay of industrialized inner cities.
Slowdown Trailer (1975)
01 January 1975
A pixillated, time-lapse avant-garde film about the speed with which we conduct our lives, as opposed to the more leisurely pace of natural life, the seasons, the changes in weather, the movement of wind and water.
Hurrah for Light Trailer (1975)
01 January 1975
“People will fly to Europe to look at the adoration which Rembrandt, Caravaggio, La Tour paid to light—they will stand in awe in the center of that great vaulted room of colored glass, the Sainte Chapelle, but at home, if martinis are waiting indoors, they will not slow down to look as the grass around the door turns incandescent in the setting sun.
Pie in the Sky Trailer (1935)
09 April 1935
At a skid row mission, a cleric opines as men wait to eat. After his sermon, he brings out a pie and cuts it into small slices.
H₂O Trailer (1929)
31 December 1929
A cinematic tone poem, showcasing the dynamic nature of water through its various forms.
Mechanical Principles Trailer (1930)
05 February 1930
Close up we see pistons move up and down or side to side. Pendulums sway, the small parts of machinery move.
Hands Trailer (1934)
05 March 1934
A commercial for the Works Progress Administration. We see hands close up: working, playing, praying, whittling, and strumming.
Youth Gets a Break Trailer (1941)
01 January 1941
Short subject commissioned by the National Youth Association to show their efforts at providing job training for unemployed poor youth.
Surf and Seaweed Trailer (1931)
15 April 1931
Shoreline images: first small breakers and the swirls they leave, then water running up the shore on a sandy beech, then water hitting pebbles and rocks.
Panther Woman of the Needle Trades, or The Lovely Life of Little Lisa Trailer (1931)
31 December 1931
The photographer Ralph Steiner, who had been making abstract avant-garde films in the late 1920s, contributed his own parody of American economic life with PANTHER WOMAN OF THE NEEDLE TRADES, OR THE LOVELY LIFE OF LITTLE LISA (1931).
