Discovering cinema / Lobster & Histoire present : a film by Eric Lange & Serege Bromberg ; produced by Lobster Film, Serge Bromberg ; Histoire, Chantal Knecht, Anne Gènevaux ; directed by Eric Lange ; [English translation, Lenny Borger, David Shepard].
Publisher:
Flicker Alley,
Copyright Date:
2007
Description:
2 videodiscs (104 min. for features, 160 min. for extras) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 viewer guide (4 unnumbered pages bound back to back and inverted : illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm)
Narrator, Andrew Solomon. Originally produced as 2 individual, but companion motion pictures in 2003 and 2004. Foreign films (France) Special features: full or expanded versions of films used in the documentaries. "FA0005 "--Disc label and container.
Contents:
disc 1. Learning to talk -- DVD extras: Live sound: Quand madelon (1917) -- La père la victorie (1917) -- Chamber mystery [excerpt] (1920) -- Miss Venus [excerpt] (1921) -- Sound on disc: Lucia Di Lammermoor (1908) -- La donna e mobile (1908) -- Carmen: 'Air du Toreador' (1910) -- Legende du Roi Gambrinus (1911) -- La Marseillaise (1911) -- Nursery favorites (1913) -- The jazz singer [trailer] (1927) -- Optical sound: Snappy tunes (1923) -- Theodore Case test film (1924) -- Gus Visser and his singing duck (1924) -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1928) -- Governor Young hails greater talkie season (1928) -- Finding his voice (1929) -- The collegians: flying high (1929) -- disc 2. Movies dream in color -- DVD extras: Applied color processes: Blacksmith scene (1895) -- Death of Marat (1897) -- Danse serpentine (1898) -- Execution of Joan of Arc (1898) -- Spanish dancers (1898) -- Metamorphosis of the butterfly (1904) -- The flower fairy (1905) -- The arab sorcerer (1906) -- Paris fashions (1926) -- Additive color processes: Inauguration of the San Marco Campanile (1912) -- Dr. Doyen color test (1912) -- Sonia Delaunay color test (1928) -- Tea time (1937) -- Subtractive color processes: Wonderland of California (1930) -- King of Jazz (1930) -- La Cucaracha (1934) -- Becky Sharp [trailer] (1935) -- New York (1938).
Summary:
This pair of films together take an historical survey of the development of sound and use of color in the earliest days of motion pictures, with several early films included to illustrate the main points of technological and artistic development.
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.