The great train robbery and other primary works [videorecording] / Kino International ; produced by Film Preservation Associates and the British Film Institute ; produced for video by David Shepard.
Format:
[videorecording] /
Publisher:
Kino on Video,
Copyright Date:
c1994
Description:
1 videocassette (75 min.) : sd., b&w and tinted ; 1/2 in. + 1 guide.
Trip to the moon. Actualities. Dog and its various merits. Moscow clad in snow. Great train robbery. Whole Dam family and the Dam dog. Golden beetle.
Notes:
Series subtitle on container: A treasury of early cinema, 1894-1914.
Contents:
Series photography (motion studies, 1877-1885) / Eadweard Muybridge -- Edison kinetoscope films (1894-1896) -- Lumière films ("actualities") (1895-1897) -- A trip to the moon / George Méliès (1902) -- McKinley at home -- Pack train on Chilkoot Pass -- Skyscrapers of New York from North River -- The Georgetown loop -- San Francisco, aftermath of earthquake -- The dog and its various merits -- Moscow clad in snow -- Airplane flight & wreck -- A fire in a burlesque theatre -- Airy fairy Lillian tries on her new corsets -- From show girl to burlesque queen -- Troubles of a manager of a burlesque show -- The great train robbery / Edwin S. Porter (1903) -- The whole Dam family and the Dam dog / Sigmund Lubin (1905) -- The golden beetle / Ferdinand Zecca (1907).
Summary:
First program in a series recreating the genesis of the motion picture medium and the foundation from which the styles and plots of contemporary cinema later evolved. Includes The great train robbery and other significant early films by pioneer filmakers.
Series:
The movies begin ; v. 1
OCLC:
(OCoLC)32175032 (OCoLC)31151092
Locations:
UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)
HWAX074 -- Hawkeye Community College Library (Waterloo)
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.