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Subjects
Motion pictures -- History.
Motion picture industry -- History.
Cinematography -- History.
Kinetoscope.
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Motion pictures -- History.
Motion picture industry -- History.
Cinematography -- History.
Kinetoscope.
MARC Display
Landmarks of early film [videorecording (DVD)].
Film Preservation Associates ; Image Entertainment [distributor], 1997, c1994.
Call #:
DVD LAN Dra
Subjects
Motion pictures -- History.
Motion picture industry -- History.
Cinematography -- History.
Kinetoscope.
Series
Blackhawk Films collection.
Video Difference legacy collection.
Alternate title:
Le voyage dans la lune [videorecording (DVD)].
A trip to the moon [videorecording (DVD)].
The great train robbery [videorecording (DVD)].
The whole dam family and the dam dog [videorecording (DVD)].
The golden beetle [videorecording (DVD)].
The policemen's little run [videorecording (DVD)].
Troubles of a grasswidower [videorecording (DVD)].
Nero, or, The fall of Rome [videorecording (DVD)].
Bangville police [videorecording (DVD)].
The girl and her trust [videorecording (DVD)].
Format:
[videorecording (DVD)].
Description:
1 videodisc (117 min.) : Dolby digital sd., b&
w
, tinted ; 12 cm. + 1 folded sheet insert.
Notes:
Videodisc release of silent films originally produced between 1886-1913 with newly realized musical accompaniment. Compilation originally produced by Film Preservation Associates in 1994.
In black & white.
Essay by
Dean
W
.
Duncan
begins on back cover and is continued on folded sheet insert.
Home use only.
Contents:
Series photography (1877-1885) -- Edison kinetoscope films (1894-1896) -- Lumiére films (1895-1897) -- A trip to the moon = Le voyage dans la lune (1902) -- Actualities (1897-1910) -- The great train robbery (1903) -- The whole dam family and the dam dog (1905) -- The golden beetle (1907) -- The policemen's little run (1907) -- Troubles of a grasswidower (1908) -- Nero, or The fall of Rome (1909) -- Winsor McCay, the famous cartoonist of the NY Herald, and his moving comics (1911) -- The girl and her trust (1912) -- Bangville police (1913).
Production:
Film Preservation Associates ; producer, David Shepard ; music, Robert Israel ; narration for A trip to the moon, Georges Méliès, adapted and read by Fabrice Zagury.
Summary:
A compilation of the very earliest silent films from the first projections of moving images to the advent of the feature film, an area of film history often underseen, underappreciated and understudied. Includes films from Pathe frénes, Vitagraph Co., Biograph Co., and Keystone Film Co. Includes films by Eadweard Muybridge, Thomas Edison, Louis Lumiére, Edwin S. Porter, George Méliès, Charles Pathé, Ferdinand Zecca, Max Linder, D.
W
. Griffith, and Henry Lehrman.
Genre:
Silent films.
Animated films.
Short films.
DVDs.
Other authors:
Shepard, David.
Duncan
,
Dean
W
.
Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904
Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931.
Lumiére, Louis, 1864-1948.
Méliès, Georges, 1861-1938.
Pathé, Charles, 1863-1957.
Griffith, D.
W
. (David Wark), 1875-1948.
Linder, Max, 1883-1925.
Maggi, Luigi, 1867-1946.
Lehrman, Henry, 1886-1946.
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Woodlawn Public Library
Adult Feature DVDs
DVD LAN Dra
Adult Dvds-7 Days
Checked out
Jul 02, 2024
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