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Les Vampires / by Louis Feuillade.
LIBRA DVD 008 654 disc + booklet
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Vampires--Drama.
- Vampires.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Feature films.
- Motion pictures, French.
- Silent films.
- Horror films.
- Film serials.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (399 min.) : silent, tinted & black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
- Edition:
- Doublesided.
- Place of Publication:
- Chatsworth, CA : Image Entertainment [distributer] : Water Bearer Films, 2000.
- Language Note:
- Silent film with music score and English titles.
- System Details:
- DVD Dolby digital stereo.
- digital
- optical
- stereo
- Dolby
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- Describes the achievements of Les Vampires, a secret society of criminals led by Irma Vep. The gang uses kidnapping, poisonous gas, heavy artillery, sexual domination and murder to gain power over the elite of Paris.
- Contents:
- 1. The severed head
- 2. The ring that kills
- 3. The red code book
- 4. The spectre
- 5. Dead man's escape
- 6. Hypnotic eyes
- 7. Satanas
- 8. The thunder master
- 9. The poisoner
- 10. The terrible wedding.
- Participant:
- Musidora, Edouard Mathé, Marcel Lévesque, Jean Aymé.
- Credits:
- Writer/director, Louis Feuillade ; produced for video by David Shepard ; orchestral score compiled and directed by Robert Israel.
- Notes:
- Originally produced as French silent black-and-white motion picture by the Gaumont Co., Ltd. in Paris in 1915.
- Color tinted in authentic period style.
- Inserted essay: The public is my master, Louis Feuillade and Les Vampires by Fabrice Zagury.
- Special features include: 3 min. comedy sketch, "For the children" (1916) made by cast and crew to raise money for war orphans and 8-min. comedy, "Bout-de-Zan and the Shirker" (1916) featuring the star of episode 8.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- Contains:
- Zagury, Fabrice. Public is my master, Louis Feuillade and Les Vampires.
- OCLC:
- 44780219
- Publisher Number:
- ID5960WBDVD Image Entertainment
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