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Discovering cinema.
LIBRA DVD 024 225 disc 1-2
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures--History.
- Motion pictures.
- History.
- Sound motion pictures--History.
- Sound motion pictures.
- Color motion pictures--History.
- Color motion pictures.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 2 videodiscs (104 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
- Edition:
- Standard format.
- Place of Publication:
- [Los Angeles, Calif.] : Flicker Alley, [2007]
- System Details:
- DVD, all regions; Dolby digital stereo.
- digital
- optical
- stereo
- Dolby
- video file
- DVD video
- all regions
- Summary:
- Learning to talk: A historical survey of the development of sound in motion pictures.
- Movies dream in color: A historical survey of the development of color in motion pictures.
- Contents:
- [Disc 1]. Learning to talk / Lobster & Histoire present a film by Eric Lange and Serge Bromberg (52 min.)
- DVD extras: Son direct = Live sound: Quand madelon (1917, 3:19 min.)
- La Père la Victorie (1917, 3:55 min.)
- Chamber mystery [extract] (1920, 8:15 min.)
- Miss Venus [extract] (1921, 4:58 min.)
- Ain't she sweet (1933, 7:13 min.)
- Son sur disque = Sound on disc: Lucia Di Lammermoor (1908, 4:01 min.)
- La donna e mobile (1908, 2:29 min.)
- Carmen 'Air du Toreador' (1910, 4:17 min.)
- Legende du Roi Gambrinus (1911, 2:37 min.)
- Marseillaise (1911, 2:48 min.)
- Nursery favorites (1913, 5:29 min.)
- Chanteur de jazz = The jazz singer [trailer] (1927, 6:53 min.)
- Son optique = Optical sound: Snappy tunes (1923, 6:51 min.)
- Theodore Case test film (1924, 0:32 min.)
- Gus Visser and his singing duck (Ma he's making eyes at me) (1925, 1:36 min.)
- Arthur Conan Doyle (1927, 10:37 min.)
- Governor Young hails greater talkie season (1928, 2:29 min.)
- Finding his voice (1929, 10:12 min.).
- [Disc 2]. Movies dream in color / Lobster & Histoire present a film by Eric Lange and Serge Bromberg. (52 min.)
- DVD extras: Coloriage = Coloring: Forgerons = Blacksmith scene (1895, 0:32 min.)
- Mort de Marat = Death at (1897, 0:38 min.)
- Danse serpentine (1898, 0:51 min.)
- Exécution de Jeannne d'Arc = Execution of Joan of Arc (1898, 0:41 min.)
- Danseurs espagnols = Spanish dancers (1898, 2:01 min.)
- Métamorphoses du Papillon = Metamorphosis of the butterfly (1904, 1:21 min.)
- Fée aux Fleurs = The flower fairy (1905, 1:07 min.)
- Sorcier arabe = The arab sorcerer (1906, 2:45 min.)
- Paris fashions (1926, 4:45 min.)
- Synthesè additive = Additive synthesis: Inauguration du Campanile de San Marco = Inauguration of the San Marco Campanile (1912, 11 min.)
- Essai trichrome du Dr. Doyen = Dr. Doyen color test (1912, 0:40 min.)
- Essai couluer de Sonia Delaunay = Sonia Delaunay color test (1928, 0:24 min.)
- Jeunes femmes prenant le Thé = Tea time (1937, 3:11 min.)
- Synthese soustractive = Subtractive synthes̀is: Wonderland of California (1930, 6:50 min.)
- King of Jazz (1930, 3:34 min.)
- La Cucaracha (1934, 19:37 min.)
- Becky Sharp [trailer] (1935, 2:46 min.)
- New York (1938, 5:03 min.).
- Participant:
- Interviewees on Learning to talk: Julien Anton, Paolo Cherchi Usai, Maurice Gianati, Stephen Herbert.
- Interviewees on Movies dream in color: Paolo Cherchi Usai, Gian Luca Farinelli, Maurice Gianati, Stephen Herbert, Anthony L'Abbate, Dominique Paini.
- Notes:
- Collective title, program titles & program credits from screen. Special feature titles & production dates from disc menus, durations from program notes.
- Originally produced separately for French television as: Premiers pas du cinema : á la recherche du son & Premiers pas du cinema : un rêve en couleur.
- Special features (ca. 174 min.): unique or historically-significant short films & film excerpts.
- Program notes include further discussion of the special features.
- Contains:
- Learning to talk
- Movies dream in color
- Premiers pas du cinema : á la recherche du son
- Recherche du son.
- Premiers pas du cinema : un rêve en couleur
- Rêve en couleur
- ISBN:
- 1893967336
- 9781893967335
- OCLC:
- 174144337
- Publisher Number:
- 617311673399
- FA0005 Flicker Alley
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