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.
Joseph Cornell
Director
Rose Hobart
Woman (archive footage) (uncredited)
Charles Bickford
Man (archive footage) (uncredited)
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Man (archive footage) (uncredited)
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Man (archive footage) (uncredited)
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Woman (archive footage) (uncredited)
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