Screening Room — Season 1, Episode 17: Screening Room with Alan Lomax

Episode synopsis

In this episode from 1975, ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax is the guest and viewers are treated to a partitioned screening of his path-breaking 40 minute film Dance and Human History: Movement Style and Culture #1, accompanied by short interludes of Gardner/Lomax discussion before and after each segment. It is a kind of ‘lecture-demonstration’ version of the film. Skillful editing keeps viewers attention away from the fact of Gardner’s smoking most of the time.

About Screening Room

Independent filmmakers are given a chance to show and discuss their work on a commercial (ABC-TV) affiliate station.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1Screening Room with John Whitney Sr.
• E2Screening Room with Les Blank
• E3Screening Room with Hilary Harris
• E4Screening Room with Bruce Baillie
• E5Screening Room with Robert Fulton
• E6Screening Room with Jan Lenica
• E7Screening Room with John & Faith Hubley
• E8Screening Room with Stan Brakhage
• E9Screening Room with Derek Lamb
• E10Screening Room with Emile de Antonio
• E11Screening Room with Ricky Leacock
• E12Screening Room with Standish Lawder & Stanley Cavell