Experimentation and discovery / Kino International ; produced by Film Preservation Associates and The British Film Institute ; produced for video by David Shepard and Heather Stewart ; program notes by Charles Musser.
Publisher:
Kino on Video,
Copyright Date:
2002
Description:
1 videodisc (58 [i.e. 94] min.) : sound, black and white, tinted ; 4 3/4 in.
Narrator, Charles Jamieson. "Including Pathé frères' Ali Baba and the forty thieves, Edwin S. Porter's The dream of a rarebit fiend, and Ferdinand Zecca's History of a crime"--Container.
Contents:
Cricks and Martin: A Peeping Tom, 1901 ; Explosion of a motor car, 1900 ; Rescued by Rover, 1905 ; The other side of the hedge, 1905 ; That fatal sneeze, 1907 -- Cricks and Martin: A visit to Peek Frean and Co.'s buscuit works, 1906 -- Kineto Production Co.: A day in the life of a coalminer, 1910 -- Pathé frères: Par le trou de serrure = Peeping Tom, 1901 ; dream of a rarebit fiend, History of a crime, 1906. Ali Baba et les quarantes voleurs = Ali Baba and the forty thieves, 1905 ; Rêve et réalité, 1901 ; La révolution en Russie, 1905 ; Aladin ou la lampe merveilleuse = Aladin, or the wonderful lamp, 1906 ; Le cheval emballé, 1907 ; The physician of the castle, 1908 ; Magic bricks, 1908 -- Edison Manufacturing Co.: Dewar's It's Scotch, 1898 ; The gay shoe clerk, 1903 ; The dream of a rarebit fiend, 1906.
Summary:
The genesis of the motion picture medium is recreated in this collection of films from cinema's formative period. More than crucial historical artifacts, these films reveal the foundation from which the styles and stories of the contemporary cinema would later arise.
Series:
The Movies begin ; v. 3
OCLC:
(OCoLC)50778670
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.