Joseph Cornell, Rose Hobart, 1936, 16mm, color, sound, 17 minutes, Anthology Film Archives.
His first and most famous work on film is Rose Hobart (1936), one of the earliest examples we have of an artist using found footage. The footage in question was a 16mm print of the 1931 Universal jungle drama East of Borneo, starring the actress Rose Hobart. Cornell’s film-collage of Rose Hobart is essentially her cinematic portrait, in which nearly everything is excised from the film but for the scenes in which she appears.
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