A PASADENA FILM PIONEER: While living in Pasadena in 1941, Sara Kathryn Arledge took up filmmaking and began work on “Introspection,” a series of loosely-connected technical and aesthetic experiments with dance movement. She worked for two years as a substitute teacher in Los Angeles and Pasadena to save the money to buy the 16mm Cine Special camera that was used to film “Introspection.” One of the first abstract dance films made in America and widely considered a landmark in experimental film history, “Introspection” was made for about $200, although it was not completed until 1946. One of the dancers in the film was the acclaimed actor, James Mitchell, who received several Daytime Emmy nominations for his thirty-year role as Palmer Cortlandt on the television soap opera “All My Children.” The original soundtrack for the film was the second movement of Franz Schubert’s “Death and the Maiden.” The Italian-based ambient, electronic music ensemble, Entropia, created their own soundtrack for “Introspection” in 2012, which can be heard in this version of the film. https://youtube/watch?v=fwair_y_IKs
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