"Superimposed to photography of Mr. Fleischman's butcher shop in New York, and the Kiowa aroko, Oklohoma, with Cognate Material. The strip is dark at the beginning and end, light in the middle, and is structured 122333221. I honor it the most of my films, otherwise a not very popular one before 1972. If the exciter lamp blows, play Bert Brecht's "Mahagonnay." (Harry Smith)
" I never did finish that sentence about the relationship of Surrealism to my things: I assumed that something was controlling the course of action and that was not simply arbitrary, so that by sortilege (as know, there is a system of diviniation called "sortilege") everything would come out all right. #14 was made on this basis. Although I kept a record that such was shot in such an area of the screen, it was completely arbitrary. (Harry Smith in an interview with P. Adams Sitney)
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