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Filmmaker: Robert Florey.
Robert Florey is the supreme instance in the silent era of a professional filmmaker whose dissatisfaction with commercial assignments led him into parallel work as an avant-garde independent.
Skyscraper Symphony, his montage of Manhattan architecture, is in a genre that would have been familiar to audiences of the new art cinema movement. “City symphonies”—documentary images of urban landscapes edited into semiabstract visual rhythms—had begun in the United States with Manhattan (1921), and others had been imported from Europe, most influentially Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (1927).
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