Rose Hobart (1936)

Name: Rose Hobart
Genre: Mystery
Released: 1936-12-09

20m

Running Time

Plot.

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.

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Cast & Crew.

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)

Joseph Cornell

Director / Editor

Media.

Details.

Release Date
December 9, 1936

Status
Released

Running Time
20m

Genres
Mystery

Last updated: 2025-02-11

This Movie Is About.

collage film

Wiki.

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.