By Night with Torch and Spear (1942)

Name: By Night with Torch and Spear
Released: 1942-12-31
Duration: 8 min

Smoke, sparks and steam dance together in Cornell's found-footage collage. Backwards title cards (or an alien language, if you like) punctuate this mishmash of the industrial and the ancient.

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Released 1942-12-31 · 8 min

Directed by Joseph Cornell