In the latter half of the 20th Century, Raymond Rohauer was one of the nation's foremost proponents of experimental cinema. Programming diverse films at the Coronet Theatre in Los Angeles, and making the films in his personal archive available for commercial distribution, he helped preserve and promote avant-garde cinema.
This two-DVD collection assembles some of the most influential and eclectic short films in the Rohauer Collection, including works by Man Ray, Hans Richter, Marcel Duchamp, Watson & Webber, Fernand Léger, Joris Ivens, Dimitri Kirsanoff, Jean Epstein, and Orson Welles.
Contents:
Disc 1
* Le Retour à la raison
(Man Ray, France, 1923, 2 min.)
* Emak-Bakia
(Man Ray, France, 1926, 16 min.)
* L'Étoile de mer
(Man Ray, France, 1928, 15.5 min.)
* Les Mystères du château du Dé
(Man Ray, France, 1929, 20 min.)
* The Life and Death of 9413, a Hollywood Extra
(Slavko Vorkapich, Robert Florey, U.S., 1928, 13 min.)
* Ménilmontant
(Dimitri Kirsanoff, France, 1926, 37 min.)
* Brumes d'automne
(Dimitri Kirsanoff, France, 1928, 12 min.)
* Lot in Sodom
(James Sibley Watson, Melville Webber, U.S., 1933, 27 min.)
* Rhythmus 21
(Hans Richter, Germany, 1921, 3 min.)
* Vormittagsspuk (Ghosts Before Breakfast)
(Hans Richter, Germany, 1928, 9 min.)
* Anémic cinéma
(Marcel Duchamp, France, 1926, 6.5 min.)
* Ballet mécanique
(Fernand Léger, France, 1924, 11 min.)
* Symphonie diagonale
(Viking Eggeling, France, 1924, 7 min.)
* Le Vampire
(Jean Painlevé, France, 1939, 8.5 min.)
* The Hearts of Age
(Orson Welles, William Vance, U.S., 1934, 8 min.)
Disc 2
* Überfall
(Ernö Metzner, Germany, 1928, 22 min.)
* La glace à trois faces
(Jean Epstein, France, 1927, 33 min.)
* Le Tempestaire
(Jean Epstein, France, 1947, 22.5 min.)
* Romance sentimentale
(Sergei Eisenstein, Grigori V. Alexandrov, France, 1930, 20 min.)
* Autumn Fire
(Herman G. Weinberg, U.S., 1931, 15 min.)
* Manhattan
(Paul Strand, Charles Sheeler, U.S., 1921, 10 min.)
* La Coquille et le clergyman
(Germaine Dulac, France, 1926, 31.5 min.)
* Regen (Rain)
(Joris Ivens, the Netherlands, 1929, 14 min.)
* H2O
(Ralph Steiner, U.S., 1929, 12 min.)
* Even -- As You and I
(Roger Barlow, Harry Hay, LeRoy Robbins, U.S., 1937, 12 min.)

威爾斯唯一一部公映的彩色電影，故事依舊奇情：澳門富商從秘書口中聽到一個愛情傳說，有人為了香燈有後願意付錢找人與妻子上床。傳說歸傳說，但澳門富商卻要使這個不朽故事成真，找來美女珍．摩露，當正是自己妻子，要她找人轟烈地做愛做的事。乍聽下來真是一場天方夜譚，但影片拍來感人至深，53歲的威爾斯與成熟的珍．摩露演出動人不已，最後一個鏡頭更被影迷形容是「魔術」，令影片入圍柏林國際電影節競逐最佳電影金熊獎。
The only colour film by Welles publicly released is another showcase of the absurdity of human nature. A Macau millionaire is told a legend about someone who is willing to pay a huge sum for someone who would sleep with his wife in order to produce an heir. In an act to make the legend real and to immortalise it, the millionaire finds Jeanne Moreau to be his wife and starts to search for the man who would make love to her. A potent performance by Welles and Moreau makes the film purely magical; a Golden Berlin Bear nominee for Berlin International Film Festival.

1948 film by Orson Welles

1951 film by Orson Welles

A surreal silent short composed of symbolic imagery and allegorical tableaux centered on themes of death and mortality.

Henry IV usurps the English throne, sets in motion the factious War of the Roses and now faces a rebellion led by Northumberland scion Hotspur. Henry's heir, Prince Hal, is a ne'er-do-well carouser who drinks and causes mischief with his low-class friends, especially his rotund father figure, John Falstaff. To redeem his title, Hal may have to choose between allegiance to his real father and loyalty to his friend.

When a car bomb explodes on the American side of the U.S./Mexico border, Mexican drug enforcement agent Miguel Vargas begins his investigation, along with American police captain Hank Quinlan. When Vargas begins to suspect that Quinlan and his shady partner, Menzies, are planting evidence to frame an innocent man, his investigations into their possible corruption quickly put himself and his new bride, Susie, in jeopardy.

1973 film by Orson Welles

A woman has two lovers. When one man finds out about the other, he acts as a villain and chases after the protagonist.

1962 film by Orson Welles

1947 film by Orson Welles

Surrounded by fans and sceptics, grizzled director J.J. "Jake" Hannaford returns from years abroad in Europe to a changed Hollywood, where he attempts to make his innovative comeback film. This film was started in 1970 but never completed during Welles's lifetime.

The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.

Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.