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The European pioneers / Kino International ; produced by Film Preservation Associates and The British Film Institute ; produced for video by Heather Stewart.
Van Pelt - Video Collection (ask at Circulation Desk) DVD 036 499
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LIBRA DVD 004 086
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- Format:
- Video
- Author/Creator:
- Musser, Charles, author.
- Series:
- Movies begin ; v. 2.
- Movies begin ; v. 2
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Silent films--Europe--History.
- Silent films.
- Motion pictures--Europe--History.
- Motion pictures.
- Motion picture producers and directors.
- Cinematographers.
- Motion picture industry.
- History.
- Europe.
- Motion picture industry--Europe--History.
- Cinematographers--Europe.
- Motion picture producers and directors--Europe.
- Genre:
- Silent films.
- Short films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (58 min.) : silent, black and white & tinted, ; 4 3/4 in.
- monochrome
- Other Title:
- Subtitle on container: Treasury of early cinema, 1894-1913
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Kino on Video, [2002]
- Language Note:
- Silent movie with piano accompaniment.
- System Details:
- DVD - NTSC.
- digital
- optical
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- The genesis of the motion picture medium is recreated in this 5-part collection of the cinema's formative works which reveal the foundation from which the styles and plots of contemporary cinema would later evolve. This second program includes forty formative works by Louis Lumiere, Walter Haggar, R. W. Paul, George Albert Smith, James A. Williamson, James Bamforth, and other early filmmakers.
- Contents:
- Leaving the Lumière factory (1895)
- The baby's meal (1895)
- Destruction of a wall (1896)
- The sprinkler sprinkled (1895)
- Arrival of congress members at Neuville-sur-Saône (1895)
- The arrival of a train at La Ciotat (1895)
- Card party (1895)
- Boat leaving the port (1895) / Louis Lumière
- Leaving Jerusalem by railway (1896)
- Snowball fight (1896)
- A fire run (Lyons) (1896)
- Niagara Falls (1896) / Alexandre Promio
- Rough sea at Dover (1895) / Birt Acres
- Come along do! (1898)
- The derby (1896)
- The countryman and the cinematograph (1901)
- A chess dispute (1903)
- Extraordinary cab accident (1903)
- Buy your own cherries (1904) / R. W. Paul
- The (?) motorist (1906) / Walter R. Booth
- The miller and the sweep (1898)
- The kiss in the tunnel (1899)
- Let me dream again (1900)
- Grandma's reading glass (1900)
- As seen through a telescope (1900)
- Sick kitten (1903)
- Mary Jane's mishap, or Don't fool with paraffin (1903) / G. A. Smith
- Daring daylight burglary (1903) / Frank Mottershaw
- Desperate poaching affray (1903) / Walter Haggard
- Kiss in the tunnel (1899)
- Ladies' skirts nailed to a fence (1900)
- Bitter bit (1900)
- Rough sea (1900) /
- Bamforth and Company, Ltd.
- Attack on a China mission (1900)
- The big swallow (1901)
- Stop thief (1901)
- Fire! (1901) / James Williamson
- An interesting story (1905) / Williamson's Kinematograph Co.
- Participant:
- Commentary by Barry Salt.
- Credits:
- Piano accompaniment by Neil Brand ; enclosed annotations by Charles Musser.
- Notes:
- Originally produced in 1994.
- OCLC:
- 49394628
- Publisher Number:
- K236B Kino on Video
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