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The Champion : a story of America's first film town / the Fort Lee Film Commission presents a Sirk production.
Van Pelt - Video Collection (ask at Circulation Desk) DVD 035 770 disc 1-2 + insert
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- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Milestone cinematheque
- The Milestone cinematheque
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion picture industry--New Jersey--Fort Lee--History.
- Motion picture industry.
- Motion pictures--New Jersey--Fort Lee.
- Motion pictures.
- New Jersey--Fort Lee.
- Genre:
- Comedy films.
- Documentary films.
- Fiction films.
- History.
- Nonfiction films.
- Short films.
- Silent films.
- Feature films.
- Melodramas (Motion pictures)
- Physical Description:
- 2 videodiscs (203 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (6 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 15 cm)
- 4 3/4 in.
- Edition:
- Deluxe 2-disc edition.
- Contained In:
- Snelson (John) Collection (Library of Congress)
- Place of Publication:
- [Harrington Park, New Jersey] : Milestone Film & Video, [2017]
- Language Note:
- Silent films with English intertitles (Feature films); English dialogue (Documentaries).
- System Details:
- DVD, NTSC, all regions; full frame (1.37:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 2.0.
- digital
- optical
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- The deluxe two-disc DVD set includes a new 2K restoration of Ghost Town (1935) an astonishing and haunting amateur documentary about post-cinema Fort Lee. Disc One also features five films made at Champion Studios, recovered thanks to the efforts of the Library of Congress and the Fort Lee Film Commission. Disc Two includes exciting NJ film rediscoveries, a slapstick comedy from director Mack Sennett, a "melodramatic comedy" starring Madge Kenney, and the earliest surviving film version of Robin Hood
- Contents:
- disc 1. The champion : a story of America's first film town / Fort Lee Film Commission presents a Sirk production ; written and directed by Marc J. Perez ; produced by Tom Meyers, John L. Sikes (2015) (35 min.)
- The Indian land grab (1910) (11 min.) / Champion Studios
- A daughter of Dixie (1911) (10 min.) / Champion Studios
- Not like other girls (1912) (9 min.) / Universal Victor
- Flo's discipline (1912) (11 min.) / Victor Film Co.
- Marked cards (1913) (10 min.) / Universal Champion
- Ghost town: the story of Fort Lee (1935) (17 min.) / Theodore Huff, Mark A. Borgatta.
- disc 2. The danger game (1918) (61 min.) / Harry Pollard ; produced by Goldwyn Pictures Corporation
- Robin Hood (1912) (31 min.) / Étienne Arnaud
- A grocery clerk's romance (1912) (8 min.) / Keystone Film Company ; Mack Sennett.
- Participant:
- The Champion : a story of America's first film town: featuring Tom Meyers, Armand Pohan, Richard Koszarski, Albert H. Wunsch III, Nancy O'Mallon ; narrator, Matt Zoller Seitz.
- Credits:
- The Champion : a story of America's first film town: camera, Donna Brennan, Michael Grand, Marc J. Perez, Dylan Russell ; editor, B.B. Enriquez ; music, Ryan Shore.
- Ghost town; The Indian Land grab; A daughter of Dixie; Not like other girls; Flo's discipline; Marked cards: music composed and performed by Ben Model.
- The danger game: music composed and performed by Donald Sosin.
- Robin Hood; A grocery clerk's romance: music by Rodney Sauer and performed by the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra.
- Notes:
- Title from container.
- The champion : a story of America's first film town was based on the book: Fort Lee : the film town / Richard Koszarski.
- ISBN:
- 9781933920818
- 1933920815
- OCLC:
- 1005370288
- Publisher Number:
- 784148014845
- MILE00148 Oscilloscope Laboratories
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