Experimentation and discovery
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Experimentation and discovery
（KINO on VIDEO, . The movies begin : a treasury of early cinema 1894-1914 ; v. 3）
Kino International Corp., c2002
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The movies begin : 133 complete motion pictures : 1894-1913
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English, Some caption in French ; Silent film with music sound track
Parallel titles from 'Text' section of the disc "Program notes by film historian Charles Musser"
DVD production credits: This Kino on Video series is a production of Film Preservation Associates and the British Film Institute ; produced by the British Film Institute ; produced for video by Heather Stewart ; music by [piano accompaniment] Neil Brand ; commentary by Barry Salt ; video production by David Pryce ; narrated by Charles Jamieson ; DVD design: Bret Wood ; authored by AGI Studios/Cinepost, Atlanta
"'Apart from "Dewar's-It's scotch', 'Magic bricks', 'Ali Baba et les quarante voleurs' and 'Reve et réalité', all films in this compilation have been made from material preserved by the British Film Insitute and National Film Archive (London)"--Container
Originally produced in 1994. "c1994 Kino International Corp. DVD design: c2002 Kino International Corp. DVD packaging: c2002 Kino on Video : K236C DVD"
Issued in box (20 × 14 × 8 cm) with 4 other videodiscs (<BA68290948>, <BA68296015>, <BA6829746X>, <BA68298677>) ; subtitle on box: 133 complete motion pictures ; subtitle on spine of box: Recreating the dawn of cinema with archival 35mm prints ; "A five-volume boxed set"--Box ; "A five-DVD set"--Spine of box
Descriptive leaflet in container
Special features: detailed program notes by Charles Musser are located within the 'Text' section of the disc ; film access
中位の書誌: Title on containter: The movies begin : a treasury of early cinema 1894-1913
Program notes by film historian, Charles Musser. "This volume, of films made between 1898 and 1910, has been compiled by the British Film Institute as a back-up resource to film screenings ... Titles are organized chronologically by production companies"--Text, Program notes by film historian Charles Musser, Begin essay
"Including Pathé frères' Ali Baba and the forty thieves, Edwin S. Porter's The dream of a rarebit fiend, Ferdinand Zecca's History of a crime"--Container
"More than any other decade, the first ten years of the moving picture saw the greatest amount of experimentation and development. Ranging from the ingeniously creative to the audacious, the films represented in this volume offer a sampling of the primitive masterworks that allowed the technical novelty of the cinema to so quickly flourish into an artistically expressive medium"--Container
"International Film Co.: Dewar's-It's scotch, 1897"--Text, Program notes by film historian Charles Musser
Time on container (58 min.) incorrect
Contents of Works
- Hepworth Manufacturing Co. (16:35)
- How it feels to be run over (1900) / [d: Cecil Hepworth]
- Explosion of a motor car (1900) / [d: Cecil Hepworth]
- Rescued by Rover (1905) / [d: Lewis Fitzhamon and Cecil Hepworth]
- The other side of the hedge (1905) / [d: Lewis Fitzhamon]
- That fatal sneeze (1907) / [d: Lewis Fitzhamon]
- Cricks and Martin (12:04)
- A visit to Peek Frean & Co.'s biscuit works (1906) [extracts]
- Kineto Production Co. (9:41)
- A day in the life of a coalminer (1910)
- Pathe Freres (47:56)
- Par le toru de serrue = [Peeping Tom] (1901)
- Histoire d'un crime = Geschichte eines Verbrechens = History of a crime (1901) / [d: Ferdinand Zecca] (5:21)
- Ali Baba et les quarante voleurs = [Ali Baba and the forty thieves] (1905) / [d: Ferdinand Zecca; 1902/1905] (8:19)
- Reve et realite = [Dream and reality] (1901) / [d: Ferdinand Zecca (?)]
- La revolution en russie = [Revolution in Odessa] (1905) / [d: Lucien Nouquet]
- Aladin ou la lampe merveilleuse = [Aladin, or the wonderful lamp] (1906) / [d: Lucien Nouquet]
- La cheval emballe = [The runaway horse] (1907) / [Ferdinand Zecca?]
- The physician of the castle (1908) / [P. Zecca]
- A narrow escape, March 1908 [incomplete]
- Magic bricks (1908) / [d. Gaston Velle]
- The Edison Manufacturing Co. (7:41)
- Dewar's[-]It's scotch / [International Film Co.] (1898)
- The gay shoe clerk (1903) / [producer and photography: Edison S. Porter]
- Dream of a rarebit fiend (1906) / [producer and ph: Edison S. Porter; d: Wallace McCutcheon] (5:14)