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Saved from the flames [videorecording] : 54 rare and restored films, 1896-1944 / Lobster Films ; Blackhawk Films Collection.

Contributor Shepard, David.

Imprint:Los Angeles : Flicker Alley, c2008.

Description3 videodisc (420 min.) : sd. and si., b&w and col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Note:Originally produced between 1893-1944.

Note:Accompanied by a booklet ([16] p. : ill. :19 cm.) containing film annotations by Serge Bromberg and David Shepard.

Note:Disc 1. New beginnings: Exiting the factory / Lumière ; music, Neil Brand (France, 1896, 2 min.) ; Arrival of a train / Gaumont Company ; music, Eric le Guen (France, 1897, 1 min.) ; Card party / Lumière ; music, Neil Brand (France, 1896, hand-colored, 2 min.) ; Kobelkoff (France, 1900, 2 min.) ; Danse serpentine (in a lion's cage) / with Mme. Ondine ; music, Eric le Guen (France, 1900, hand-colored, 3 min.) ; Cyrano de Bergerac (the duel scene) / Clement-Maurice with Coquelin Ainé (France,1900, hand-colored, sound on cylinder, 2 min.) ; La Marseillaise / Georges Mendel (France, 1907, 3 min.) -- Magical movies: Excelsior! : Prince of Magicians / Georges Méliès ; music, Rodney Sauer and the Mount Alto Motion Picture Orchestra (France, 1901, 3 min.) ; The Talion punishment / Gaston Velle ; music, Eric le Guen (France, 1906, stencil-colored, 5 min.) ; Kiriki, Japanese acrobats / Segundo de Chomon ; music, Eric le Guen (France, 1907, hand-colored, 3 min.) ; An excursion to the moon / Segundo de Chomon ; music, Frederick Hodges (France, 1908, stencil-colored, 7 min.) ; The Automatic Moving Company / Romeo Bosetti ; music, Eric Beheim (France, 1911, 5 min.) -- Seeing the world: The Seine flood / Eclipse Company ; music, Eric Beheim (France, 1910, 5 min.) ; Over the top (a battle with the elements) / Earle Films ; music, Eric Beheim (U.S., 1915 12 min.) ; A visit to Los Angeles / Ford Motor Company ; music, Frederick Hodges (U.S., 1916, 11 min.) ; Montmartre's kids / music, Eric le Guen (France, 1916, 4 min.) ; The dirigible Los Angeles / music, Eric Beheim (U.S., 1924, 20 min.) ; In the land of giants and pygmies / Aurelio Rossi ; music, Eric le Guen (1925, 9 min.) ; Technicolor fashion parade / Fashion Features, Inc. ; music, Frederick Hodges (U.S., 1927, 6 min.) ; Charles A. Lindbergh, hero of the air / Fox-Case Movietone (U.S., 1927, 12 min.) ; The fireman of the Follies-Bergère / with Josephine Baker ; music, Eric le Guen (France, 1928, 8 min.) ; Meet me down at Coney Isle / Fox Magic Carpet of Movietone ; music, Louis de Francesco (U.S., 1932, 9 min.).

Note:Disc 2. Laughing like we used to: The dancing pig / Pathé Frères ; music, Frederick Hodges (France, 1907, 3 min.) ; The monkey race / Italia Film ; music, Eric Beheim (Italy, 1909, 5 min.) ; I fetch the bread / Pathé Frères ; music, Eric Beheim (France, 1907, 6 min.) ; Artheme swallows his clarinet / Eclipse Company ; music, Eric Beheim (France, 1912, 4 min.) ; Kid's auto race / Keystone Film Co. ; producer, Mack Sennett ; with Charles Chaplin ; music, Eric Beheim (U.S., 1914, 7 min.) ; The pest / Amalgamated Productions ; producer/director, G. M. Anderson ; with Stan Laurel ; music, Frederick Hodges (U.S., 1922, 23 min.) ; Lizzies of the field / producer, Mack Sennett ; director, Del Lord ; music, Eric Beheim (U.S., 1924, 15 min.) -- Drawings and models: Fantasmagorie / Gaumont Company ; illustrator, Emile Cohl ; music, Frederick Hodges (France, 1908, 2 min.) ; Cartoon factory / Fleischer Studios ; illustrator, Max Fleischer (U.S., 1924, 8 min.) ; In the orient : Tony Sarg's Marionettes / Columbia Pictures ; puppeteer, Tony Sarg (U.S., 1929, 10 min.) ; Ain't she sweet / Fleischer Studios ; with Lillian Roth (U.S., 1932, 8 min.) ; Balloonland (aka The Pincushion Man) / Ub Iwerks (U.S., 1935, 7 min.) ; Play safe / Fleischer Studios (U.S., 1936, 8 min.) -- Grace notes: Radi-Ators / Columbia Pictures ; with the Utica Jubilee Singers (U.S., 1929, 10 min.) ; Black and tan / RCA ; director, Dudley Murphy; with the Duke Ellington Orchestra (U.S., 1929, 19 min.) ; Louis Armstrong in Copenhagen (Denmark, 1934, 10 min.) ; Jazz hot / with Django Reinhardt, Stéphane Grapelli, and the Quintet of the Hot Club of France (France, 1939, 7 min.).

Note:Disc 3. Persuade me: California election news #2 / produced by MGM (U.S., 1934, 7 min.) ; Week-End / Virginia Week-End Tobacco (France, 1938, 3 min.) ; Cette nuit-la / Levitan and Co. ; with Jacques Tati (France, 1935, 2 min.) ; Clo-cloche / Caporal ; with Michel Simon (France, 1935, 3 min.) ; MGM promo reel / MGM ; with Laurel & Hardy (France, 1936, 9 min.) ; Master hands / Chevrolet Motor Co. ; producer, Jam Handy Organization (U.S., 1936, 32 min.) ; Philips broadcast of 1938 / Philips Radio ; animator, George Pal (Holland, 1938, 5 min.) ; Yankee Doodler / Soundies Dist. Corp. (U.S., 1942, 3 min.) ; Rosie the Riveter / Soundies Dist. Corp. (U.S., 1943, 3 min.) ; Dear Arabella / Soundies Dist. Corp. (U.S., 1942, 3 min.) ; Hell bent for election / Industrial Films and Poster Service ; animator, Chuck Jones (U.S., 1944, 13 min.) -- Tell me a story: For his son / Biograph Co. ; director, D.W. Griffith ; music, Sydney Jill Lehman (U.S., 1912, 15 min.) ; Suspense / Rex Co. ; directors, Lois Weber & Phillips Smalley ; music, Donald Sosin (U.S., 1913, 11 min.) ; The heart of an Indian (aka. The Indian massacre) / Bison Co. ; producer, Thomas Ince ; music, Rodney Sauer (U.S., 1912, 33 min.) -- One for the road: Stolen kisses [compilation] / music, Eric le Guen (ca. 1920s, 4 min.).

Note:Organized into eight thematic groups, this seven-hour anthology collects 54 rare and restored short films that were originally produced on nitrate film stock.

System Details NotesDigital video disc. Full screen ; Stero

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Contributor
Shepard, David.
Bromberg, Serge.
Lobster Films (Firm.
Blackhawk Films Collection (Library of Congress)
Flicker Alley (Firm)
Series Statement
Buhl Library Video Collection
Subject:
Motion pictures -- History.
Motion pictures -- United States -- History.
Motion pictures -- France -- History.
Index Term - Genre/Form
Experimental films.
Fantasy films.
Silent films.
Trick films.
Comedy films.
Animated films.
Promotional films.
Animated films.
Black and white films.
Musical films.
Short films.
Fiction films.