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Perils of the new land : films of the immigrant experience (1910-1915).
LIBRA DVD 015 003
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- No linguistic content
- Subjects (All):
- Immigrants--United States--History--20th century--Drama.
- Immigrants.
- History.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Social problem films.
- Silent films.
- Feature films.
- Short films.
- Drama.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 2 videodiscs (202 min.) : black and white and tinted, sound ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([10 pages] : illustrations ; 19 cm)
- Edition:
- Standard format.
- Other Title:
- Films of the immigrant experience (1910-1915)
- Place of Publication:
- Los Angeles, CA : Flicker Alley, [2008]
- Language Note:
- Silent.
- System Details:
- DVD, NTSC, region 0; stereo.
- digital
- optical
- stereo
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- Four films that address the immigrant experience in the United States in the early twentieth century.
- Contents:
- Italian / Paramount Pictures Corporation with New York Motion Picture Corp. presents ; [directed by] Reginald Barker ; produced by Thomas H. Ince ; music composed by Rodney Sauer, music performed by The Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra (1915, tinted, 75 min.)
- Police force of New York City / [produced by Thomas Edison] ; music by Rodney Sauer (1910, b&w, 9 min.)
- McQuade of the traffic squad / [produced by Thomas Edison] ; scenario and direction by Eugene Nowland (1915, tinted,16 min.)
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- Traffic in souls, or, while New York sleeps / Universal Film Manufacturing Company presents ; produced by George Loane Tucker ; story by Walter McNamara and George Loane Tucker ; music settings by Philip Carli (1913, b&w, 90 min.)
- Call of the city / [produced by Thomas Edison] ; a drama by Mark Swan ; director, Harry Beaumont ; music compiled and performed by Rodney Sauer (1915, b&w, 12 min.).
- Participant:
- Cast for The Italian: George Beban, Clara Williams, J. Frank Burke.
- Cast for Traffic in souls: Ethel Grandin, Matt Moore, Jane Gail.
- Credits:
- The Italian: music composed by Rodney Sauer, music performed by The Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra ; The Police force of New York City: music by Rodney Sauer ; Traffic in souls: music settings by Philip Carli ; The call of the city: music compiled and performed by Rodney Sauer.
- Notes:
- Aspect ratio 1.33:1.
- Container erroneously notes complete runtime as 194 min.
- Container insert includes reproductions of film programs and stills for "The Italian" and "Traffic in souls".
- Special features (disc 1): Optional audio essay in English for "The Italian" by film scholar Giorgio Bertellini.
- Special features (disc 2): optional audio essay in English for "Traffic in souls" by film scholar Shelley Stamp.
- Contains:
- Italian.
- Police force of New York City.
- McQuade of the traffic squad.
- Traffic in souls, or, while New York sleeps.
- Call of the city.
- ISBN:
- 1893967387
- 9781893967380
- OCLC:
- 234175776
- Publisher Number:
- 617311673894
- FA0010 Flicker Alley
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