Rose Hobart (1936)
Cornell employs clips from 1931's jungle melodrama East of Borneo – more specifically, clips of its lead actress, Rose Hobart – to disquieting effect. Through Cornell's collage editing, Hobart becomes a singular object of desire and dread, trapped in an exotic paradise.
- Date of release
- 1936-12-09
- TMDB
- 5.5 / 10 (50)
- Runtime
- 20m
- Genres
- Mystery
- Director
- Joseph Cornell
Casting
- Rose Hobart — Woman (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Charles Bickford — Man (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Noble Johnson — Man (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Georges Renavent — Man (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Lupita Tovar — Woman (archive footage) (uncredited)
Interesting facts
Rose Hobart is a 1936 experimental collage film created by the artist Joseph Cornell, who cut and re-edited the Universal film East of Borneo (1931) into one of America's most famous surrealist short films. Cornell was fascinated by the star of East of Borneo, an actress named Rose Hobart, and named his short film after her. The piece consists of snippets from East of Borneo combined with shots from a documentary film of an eclipse.
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