A compact version of Henry Hathaway’s 1947-movie, refilmed during a 1973-television broadcast with a super 8 camera: 4 or 5 frames from each shot, so that the narrative editing strategies of the whole movie become apparent within 4 minutes. Part of K. Wyborny’s 90-minute film Elementary Film History (1974) and of his 25-minute art-gallery installation Histoire du Cinéma (2004) “I’ve always been very interested in the narrative. My cinema has to do with stretching the narrative until it kind of collapses. I care about the structures, about what they do to one’s mind. Maybe this is being analytical. But I analyze the time structures while I proceed in building them. Structure in itself doesn’t interest me. I am interested only in specific ones which then I kind of try to analyze.” (KW)
