The great train robbery and other primary works / 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 (75 min.) : sound, black and white, tinted ; 4 3/4 in.
"Featuring the films of: Edwin S. Porter, Thomas A. Edison, Auguste and Louis Lumière, Georges Méliès, Eadweard Muybridge, Ferdinand Zecca"--Container. "'Homage to Eadweard Muybridge' by arrangement with the University of Southern California. Narration for 'A trip to the moon' by Georges Méliès, adapted and read by Fabrice Zagury. Vintage recordings from the collection of George Wagner"--Container.
Contents:
The Seminary girls -- Serpentine dances ; Sandow (the strong man) ; Glenroy brothers (comic boxing) ; Cockfight ; The barber shop ; Feeding the doves ; Seminary girls -- Lumière films, 1895-1897: Transformation by hats, comic view ; Children digging for clams ; Loading a boiler ; Dragoons crossing the Sâone ; Promenade of ostriches, Paris Botanical Gardens ; Childish quarrel ; Lion, London Zoological Garden ; Photograph ; Transformation by hats, comic view ; Sky scrapers of New York City from North River, Poultry yard ; Arab cortege, Geneva ; New York, Brooklyn Bridge ; New York, Broadway at Union Square ; Policeman's parade, Chicago -- 1903 ; trip to the moon -- Actualities, 1897-1910: President McKinley at home, 1897 ; Pack train at Chilkoot Pass, 1898 ; Sky scrapers of New York City from North River, 1903 ; 1904 -- Troubles of a manager of a burlesque show /American Mutoscope & Biograph, 1903 ; San Francisco aftermath of earthquake, 1906 ; The dog and his various merits / American Mutoscope & Biograph, 1908 ; Moscow clad in snow / Pathé frères, 1908 ; Aeroplane flight and wreck (piloted by M. Cody) June 23, 1910 -- "Blue" movies: A fire in a burlesque theatre / American Mutoscope & Biograph, 1904 ; Airy fairy Lillian tries on her new corsets / American Mutoscope & Biograph, 1905 ; From show girl to burlesque queen / American Mutoscope & Biograph, 1903 ; Troubles of a manager of a burlesque show /American Mutoscope & Biograph, 1904 -- 1907. 1903 -- The golden beetle / Pathé ; Segundo de Chomon, 1905 -- The golden beetle / Pathé ; Segundo de Chomon, 1907.
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. 1
OCLC:
(OCoLC)50778665
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.