Saved From the Flames. : 54 Rare and Restored Films 1896-1944 Disc 1

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Short films originally produced from 1896 through 1932.
DVD 3-disc set includes a 15 p. illustrated booklet written by David Shepard and Serge Bromberg.
New beginnings. Exiting the factory / Lumiere (France, 1896, 1:13 min.) ; Arrival of a train / Gaumont ( France, 1897, 0:48 min.) ; Card party / Lumiere (France, 1896, hand-colored, 1:26 min.) ; Kobelkoff (France, 1900, 1:24 min.) ; Danse Serpentine (In a lion's cage) (France, 1900, hand-colored, 2:08 min.) ; Cyrano de Bergerac / Phono-Cinema-Theatre (1900, hand-colored, sound on cylinder, 1:55 min.) ; La Marseillaise / Georges Mendel (France, 1907 sound on disc, 2:41 min.) -- Magical movies. Excelsior! Prince of Magicians / Georges Méliès (France, 1901, 2:06 min.) ; The Talion punishment / Gaston Velle, Pathé frères (France, 1906, stencil-colored, 4:13 min.) ; Kiriki, Japanese acrobats / Segundo de Chomon, Pathé frères (France, 1907, hand-colored, 2:38 min.) ; An excursion to the moon / Segundo de Chomon, Pathé frères (France, 1908, stencil-colored, 6:47 min.) ; The Automatic Moving Company / Romeo Bosetti, Pathé frères (France, 1911, 4:23 min.) -- Seeing the world. Seine flood / Eclipse Company ; music, Eric Beheim (France, 1910, 4:16 min.) ; Over the top (A battle with the elements) / Earle Films ; music, Eric Beheim (USA, 1915, 11:22 min.) ; A visit to Los Angeles / Ford Motor Company ; music, Frederick Hodges (USA, 1916, 10:25 min.) ; Montmartre's kids / music, Eric le Guen (France, 1916, 3:51 min.) ; Dirigible Los Angeles / Blackhawk Films ; music, Eric Beheim (USA, 1924, 19:24 min.) ; In the land of giants and pygmies / Aurelio Rossi ; music, Eric le Guen (1925, stencil-colored, English intertitles, 8:33 min.) ; Technicolor fashion parade / Fashion Features, Inc ; music, Frederick Hodges (USA, 1927, 5:53 min.) ; Charles A. Lindbergh, hero of the air / Fox-Case Movietone (USA, 1927, 11:50 min.) ; Fireman of the Follies-Bergère / with Josephine Baker ; music, Eric le Guen (France, 1928, 7:38 min.) ; Meet me down at Coney Isle / Fox Magic Carpet of Movietone (USA, 1932, 8:13 min.).
New beginings: Seven films including the early cinematic experiments of Lumière, Georges Mendel and others, featuring Cyrano De Bergerac from 1900, believed to be the first color and sound film. Magical movies: Five early fantasy and trick films, including a previously-unseen trick film by Georges Méliès, hand-colored films from Segundo de Chomon and Gaston Velle, and astonishing stop-motion animation from 1911. Seeing the world: Among the ten films in this section: A transatlantic crossing in a Zeppelin dirigible, a film of the first car trip (1915) across the Sierras from San Francisco to Reno, a stencil-colored trek through the Belgian Congo in 1925, Parisian street kids in Montmartre during the first World War, a 1916 visit to Los Angeles, 1927 sound film of Charles Lindbergh embarking on his New York-Paris flight, an early 1930s portrait of New York's Coney Island, a film promoting Josephine Baker's revue at the Folies-Bergère, and a two-color Technicolor 1927 fashion parade.
DVD ; NTSC, region 0 ; stereo, full screen.

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