L'Age d'or

Paris: Studio 28, 1930. Vintage review-program for Luis Buñuel's 1930 surrealist masterpiece, created for the film's public premiere at Studio 28 cinema in Montmartre. Program in two parts, bound dos-a-dos. Text in French.

The first section of the review-program is dedicated to "L'Age d'or," presenting the film's scenario alongside subtitles and dialogue, accompanied by a manifesto on surrealism and a catalog of 20 works by Max Ernst, Salvador Dalí, Man Ray, and others, which were exhibited alongside the film's screenings at Studio 28.

The second part of the program is an overview of film programs at Studio 28, with stills from films by Epstein, Ivens, Melies, and others.

The violence of the uproar "L'Age d'Or" created remains almost as shocking as the film itself: days into the first screenings at Studio 28, on December 3, 1930, the theatre was stormed by fascist youths, enraged at the film's perceived anti-patriotic and anti-Christian message. Demonstrators threw ink at the screen, shouted antisemitic death threats, smashed the theatre windows, and completely destroyed the exhibition of surrealist books and artwork in the foyer. In response, the Board of Censors re-reviewed the film, and on December 10, the film was banned from further public showings in France. The film's producers subsequently withdrew "L'Age d'or" from commercial distribution and public exhibition for more than 40 years (although three years later, in 1933, the film was privately exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York).

Page edges faintly foxed, else about Near Fine in perfect-bound gold wrappers, with a single annotation in manuscript ink, censoring a line relating to one of the film's characters and Jesus Christ. Lacking the errata slip.

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