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SAVED FROM THE FLAMES
54 Rare & Restored Films (1896-1944)
$49.95
Saved From The Flames is a unique and wonderful collection of 54 rare and restored short films from the inflammable years of cinema. Movies were once made on nitrate film stock, which has a chemical composition similar to gunpowder and is highly vulnerable to fire and decay. This remarkable seven-hour anthology, organized in eight thematic groups over three DVDs, presents amazing treasures from the vaults of Lobster Films in Paris and from the Blackhawk Films Collection, rescued during half a century of gathering movies from the nitrate era.
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SAVED FROM THE FLAMES
Saved From The Flames: 54 Rare & Restored Films on 3 DVDs 1896-1944 / 410 min. / B&W / Tinted / Color / Silent / Sound / 1:33:1
This program is based in part upon Retour de Flamme, a screening series from Lobster Films, Paris, produced by Serge Bromberg, Eric Lange, Sylvie Geordiadès, Anne Simon, and upon films from The Blackhawk Films Collection, selected and organized by David Shepard.
New Beginnings: Seven films, including the early cinematic experiment of Lumière, Georges Mendel and others, featuring Cyrano de Bergerac from 1900.
Magical Movies: Five early fantasy and trick films, including astonishing stop-motion animation from 1911.
Seeing The World: Ten films, including a transatlantic crossing in a Zeppelin dirigible and a film promoting Josephine Baker's wild revue at the Foliès-Bergere.
Laughing Like We Used To: Seven comedies, including four restored from turn of the century Italy and France and a frenetic Mack Sennett gag fest with tin lizzies galore.
Drawings and Models: Six works of animation: Fantasmagorie from 1908, three cartons from the Fleischer Studios.
Grace Notes: Rare musical performances by Reinhardt, Ellington, and Armstrong.
Persuade Me: Eleven films designed to influence, including three WW-II era musical shorts and a paean to the 1936 Chevrolet, selected for the National Film Registry.
Tell Me A Story: Narratives from 1912-1913 by D.W. Griffith, Lois Weber, and Thomas Ince, all mastered from beautiful 35mm film elements.
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SAVED FROM THE FLAMES
Kiriki, Japanese Acrobats (hand-colored), Pathé Frères, France, 1917
Card Party (hand-colored), Lumière, France, 1886
Balloonland, Ub Iwerks, Cinecolor, USA, 1935
Play Safe, Fleischer Studio, Technicolor, USA, 1936
Black and Tan (with Duke Ellington Orchestra), RCA, US, 1929
Kid's Auto Race (with Charles Chaplin), Keystone Film Co., USA, 1914
Stolen Kisses compilation, circa 1920s
Cette nuit-la (with Jacques Tati), Levitan and Co., France, 1935
Hell Bent for Election, Chuck Jones, Industrial Films and Poster Service, USA, 1944
Suspense, Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley, Rex Co., USA, 1913
