The Alloy Orchestra plays Wild and weird : Short film favorites with new music / Film Preservation Associates, Inc. ; program compiled and produced by David Shepard, Ken Winokur ; a Flicker Alley digital presentation produced by Jeffery Masino, David Shepard.
Motion pictures originally released in Europe and the United States between 1902 and 1965.
Contents:
Alloy plays Filmstudie / director, Dave Davidson ; editing, Pamela Ralat ; camera, Herman Lew, Dave Davidson ; Hudson West Productions (2011, col., 10:14) La voyage dans la lune [= A trip to the moon] / Star Film, Geo Méliès (1902, b&w, 12:42) -- Dream of a rarebit fiend / trade mark Thomas A. Edison ; [produced by Edwin S. Porter] (1906, tinted, 7:50) -- The red spectre / Pathé ; [Segundo de Chomón] (1907, hand-colored, 9:01) -- The acrobatic fly [also known as The balancing bluebottle] / [F. Percy Smith] (1908, tinted, 2:27) -- The thieving hand / The Vitagraph Company of America ; [possibly produced by J. Stuart Blackton] (1908, b&w, 6:12) -- Princess Nicotine, or the smoke fairy / The Vitagraph Company of America ; [possibly produced by J. Stuart Blackton] (1909, b&w, 5:23) -- Artheme swallows his clarinet / Eclipse (1912, b&w, 3:54) -- The cameraman's revenge [= Mest kinematograficheskogo operatora, also knowns as The revenge of a kinematograph cameraman] / produced by Khanzhonkov Company ; [Ladislas Starewicz] (1912, b&w, 12:48) -- Dream of a rarebit fiend: [the pet] / drawn by hand by Winsor McCay, inventor of animated drawing (1921, b&w, 10:21) -- The play house / Joseph M. Schenck presents a First National Attraction ; written and directed by "Buster" Keaton and Eddie Cline ; [cinematography, Elgin Lessley] (1920, b&w, 22:41) -- Filmstudie / Hans Richter ; AUS (1926, b&w, 5:00) -- The life and death of 9413, a Hollywood extra / conceived & realized by Robert Florey and Slavko Vorkapich ; cinematography, Gregg Toland ; [featuring Jules Raucourt, George Voya] (1927, b&w, 13:01) -- Clay, or The origin of species / by Eliot Noyes, Jr. (1965, b&w, 8:16) -- Alloy plays Filmstudie / director, Dave Davidson ; editing, Pamela Ralat ; camera, Herman Lew, Dave Davidson ; Hudson West Productions (2011, col., 10:14)
Summary:
14 short films with new music performed by the Alloy Orchestra.
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.