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The Wheel : La Roue

DVD - 2008 DVD Silent-Film Wheel 1 On Shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 0 out of 5

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Call Number: DVD Silent-Film Wheel
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Originally released as a motion picture in France in 1923.
New restoration with a new score by Robert Israel.
Special features: Autour de la roue = Around "The Wheel" making-of featurette (8 min.), Original pressbook (3 min.)
Disc 1. La roue [first part] (161 min.) -- disc 2. La roue [continued] (101 min.), special features.
Seʹverin Mars, Ivy Close, Gabriel de Gravone, Pierre Magnier.
Sisif, a railwayman, and his son Elie fall in love with the beautiful Norma (whom Sisif rescued from a train crash when a baby and raised as his daughter), with tragic results. This seminal film introduced many innovations in set design and construction, and cinematic devices.
DVD (NTSC, region 0), stereo.

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LANGUAGE OPTIONS
Silent film with intertitles In English.

PUBLISHED
[Los Angeles, Calif.] : Flicker Alley, c2008.
Year Published: 2008
Description: 2 videodiscs (270 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language: English
Format: DVD

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
1893967379
9781893967373

ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Gance, Abel.
Mars, Séverin, 1873-1921.
Close, Ivy, 1890-1968.
Gravone, Gabriel de.
Magnier, Pierre.
Israel, Robert.
Lange, Eric.
Flicker Alley (Firm)

SUBJECTS
Man-woman relationships -- Drama.
Fathers and sons -- Drama.
Silent films.
Feature films.
Experimental films.
Fiction films.