DVD
Saved from the flames 54 rare and restored films 1896-1944
Edition
Full screen version.
Languages
Mostly silent with musical accompaniment, or in English or French with English subtitles.
Publication Information
Los Angeles, Calif. : Flicker Alley, c2008.
Physical Description
3 videodiscs (420 min.) : sd. and si., b&w, tinted and col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([15] p. ; 19 cm.)
Audience
Not rated.
Summary
A collection of 54 rare and restored short films from the inflammable years of cinema. Movies were once made on nitrate film stock, which has a chemical composition similar to gunpowder and is highly vulnerable to fire and decay. This seven-hour anthology, organized in eight thematic groups over three DVDs, presents treasures from the vaults of Lobster Films in Paris and from the Blackhawk Films Collection, rescued during half a century of gathering movies from the nitrate era.
Notes
Collective title from container, individual titles, credits, and durations from booklet.
Originally produced as 54 short films between 1896-1944.
Booklet includes program notes for each film by Serge Bromberg and David Shepard.
Contents
- New beginnings. Exiting the factory Arrival of a train / Card party / Kobelkoff Danse Serpentine (In a lion's cage) Cyrano de Bergerac / La Marseillaise / Magical movies. Excelsior! Prince of Magicians / The Talion punishment / Kiriki, Japanese acrobats / An excursion to the moon / The Automatic Moving Company / Seine flood / Over the top (A battle with the elements) / A visit to Los Angeles / Montmartre's kids / Dirigible Los Angeles / In the land of giants and pygmies / Technicolor fashion parade / Charles A. Lindbergh, hero of the air / Fireman of the Follies-Bergère / Meet me down at Coney Isle
- Laughing like we used to. The dancing pig / Monkey race / I fetch the bread / Artheme swallows his clarinet / Kid's auto race / The pest / Lizzies of the field / Drawings and models. Fantasmagorie / Cartoon factory / In the orient : Tony Sarg's Marionettes / Ain't she sweet / Balloonland (aka The Pincushion man) / Play safe / Grace notes. Radi-Ators / Black and tan / Louis Armstrong in Copenhagen Jazz hot
- Persuade me. California election news #2 / 3 advertisements for theaters produced in France: Week-end / Cette nuit-la / Clo-cloche / MGM promo reel / Master hands / Philips Broadcast of 1938 / Three "Soundies" made for coin-operated jukebox devices: Yankee Doodler / Rosie the riveter / Dear Arabella / Hell bent for election / Tell me a story. For his son / Suspense / The heart of an Indian (aka. The Indian massacre) / One for the road. Stolen kisses [compilation]