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Discovering cinema
Uniform Title
Premiers pas du cinema.
Title
Discovering cinema [videorecording] / Flicker Alley and Blackhawk Films present..
ISBN
1893967336
9781893967335
Published
[S.l.] : Flicker Alley, c2007.
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (267 min) : sd., col. with b&w sequences; 4 3/4 in.
Notes
First film originally released in 2003 as Les premiers pas du cinema : á la recherche du son; second film originally released in 2004 as Les premiers pas du cinema : Un rêve en couleur.
English language tracks with English voiceovers for interviews in French; intertitles of bonus materials vary.
Summary
First film is a historical survey of the development of sound in motion pictures; second film is a historical survey of the development of color in motion pictures. Both with early films included to illustrate the main points of technological and artistic development.
Variant and related titles
Premiers pas du cinema, á la recherche du son
Á la recherche du son.
Learning to talk.
Premiers pas du cinema, Un rêve en couleur.
Rêve en couleur.
Movies dream in color.
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 11, 2008
Performers
Interviewees on first film: Julien Anton, Paolo Cherchi Usai, Maurice Gianati, Stephen Herbert; interviewees on second film: Paolo Cherchi Usai, Gian Luca Farinelli, Maurice Gianati, Stephen Herbert, Anthony L'Abbate, Dominique Paini.
System details note
DVD (NTSC, region 0).
Contents
[Disc 1]. Learning to talk / Lobster & Histoire present a film by Eric Lange and Serge Bromberg (2003, 52 min.; narrated in English)
Quand madelon / Roger Lion (1917, 3:19 min.)
Père la Victorie, La / Roger Lion (1917, 3:55 min.)
Chamber mystery [extract] / Abraham S. Schomer (1920, 8:15 min.)
Miss Venus [extract] / Ludwig Czerny (1921, 4:58 min.)
Ain't she sweet (1933, 7:13 min.)
Lucia Di Lammermoor (1908, 4:01 min.)
Donna e mobile. La (1908, 2:29 min.)
Carmen 'Air du Toreador' (1910, 4:17 min.)
Legende du Roi Gambrinus, La (1911, 2:37 min.)
Marseillaise, La (1911, 2:48 min.)
Nursery favorites (1913, 5:29 min.)
Chanteur de jazz = The jazz singer [trailer] (1927, 6:53 min.)
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.)
Sir 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 (2004, 52 min.; narrated in English)
Collegians: Flying high / Ben Holmes (1929, 21 min.)
Forgerons = Blacksmith scene / Louis Lumiere, Auguste Lumiere (1895, 0:32 min.)
Mort de Marat = Death of Marat / Louis Lumiere, Auguste Lumiere (1897, 0:38 min.)
Danse serpentine / Louis Lumiere, Auguste Lumiere (1898, 0:51 min.)
Exécution de Jeannne d'Arc = Execution of Joan of Arc / Louis Lumiere, Auguste Lumiere (1898, 0:41 min.)
Danseurs espagnols = Spanish dancers (1898, 2:01 min.)
Métamorphoses du Papillon = Metamorphosis of the butterfly / Gaston Velle (1904, 1:21 min.)
Fée aux Fleurs = The flower fairy / Gaston Velle (1905, 1:07 min.)
Sorcier arabe = The arab sorcerer / Segundo De Chomon (1906, 2:45 min.)
Paris fashions (1926, 4:45 min.)
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.)
Wonderland of California (1930, 6:50 min.)
King of Jazz (1930, 3:34 min.)
Cucaracha, La (1934, 19:37 min.)
Becky Sharp [trailer] (1935, 2:46 min.)
New York (1938, 5:03 min.).
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Genre/Form
Documentary films.
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