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THE HISTORY OF FILM AND EARLY SILENT CINEMA
ANIMATED
SOVIET
PROPAGANDA(3-DVD)
From the 1920s to the 1930s, the
Soviet regime ordered the production
of dozens of animated propaganda
films. Their target audience was the
Soviet Union itself, and their goal was
to win over the hearts andminds of the
Soviet people. A unique series, with a
leading perspective. Commentary by a
leading Soviet film scholar. Two hours
ofdocumentaryand6hoursofanimat-
ed films on 4 DVDs.
KV 303D
Sale! $76.46
THE ART OF BUSTER KEATON
11-DVD set includes:
The Saphead / The High Sign / One Week /
Three Ages / The Goat / My Wife's Relations /
Our Hospitality / Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator /
The Boat / The Love Nest / Seven Chances / Neighbors /
The Balloonatic / Go West / The Scarecrow / The Paleface /
Battling Butler / The Frozen North / The Haunted House /
The General / The Playhouse / Cops / College /
The Electric House / The Blacksmith / Hard Luck /
Steamboat Bill Jr. / Convict 13 / Daydreams
Includes 11 full-length comedies and 19 short films. Also features a bonus
11th disc of rare short films, tv appearances, commercials, home movies,
photos, and more!
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CHAPLIN AT
KEYSTONE
(4-DVD)
Charlie Chaplin
Employing state-of-
the-art restoration
techniques, it is far
easier than ever before
to see the real genius
of Charlie Chaplin as it
was seen by fans
decades ago. This
must-have, interna-
tionally-gathered, 34-
film collection that fea-
tured the clever star doing what he did so well without
ever uttering a word...making people laugh!
FLAL 5799D Sale! $84.98
EDISON -
The Invention
of the Movies
(4-DVD)
A comprehensive survey
of one of cinema's most
influential figures, Edison:
The Invention of the
Movies is a monumental
collection of 140 archival
motion pictures. From
19th-century camera
tests never intended for public screening to the last fea-
ture-length film released by the Thomas A. Edison
Studios in1918 (TheUnbeliever), thecollection isdigital-
ly mastered with newly recorded musical scores, sur-
rounded by a wealth of historical documents and inter-
views with leading film archivists and historians.
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VOLUME 1
7-DVD set includes:
• Birth of a Nation
• Intolerance
• Broken
Blossoms
• Orphans of the
Storm
• Biograph
Shorts 1909-
1913
Lillian Gish,
Dorothy Gish
Directed by D.W. Griffith
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VOLUME 2
5-DVD set includes:
Abraham Lincoln /
The Struggle / Sally Of
The Sawdust /
Way Down East / The
Avenging Conscience
Directed by D.W. Griffith
Widely regarded as the
father of American film,
David Wark Griffith (1875-
1948) revolutionized the
language of cinema and transformed a five-cent novel-
ty into an art form. His historical epics and Victorian
melodramas achieved new heights of emotional rich-
ness, created unbearable dramatic tension, and
sparked controversies that continue to rage, nearly a
century later.
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LANDMARKS OF EARLY SOVIET FILM
(4-DVD)
During the 1920s, Soviet documentary and fiction films were financed by the
State and their fledgling directors converted their lives from theater,
engineering, painting and journalism to the practice and theory of a
revolutionary cinema devoted to showing the achievements and aspirations
of the new Socialist society. Each of the eight seminal feature-length films in
this remarkable set repays several viewings; all are new to DVD. They are
SergeiM.Eisenstein's lastsilentandseldomseen OldandNew (1929),which
attempts to bring visual poetry to the collectivization of agriculture; Dziga
Vertov's Stride, Soviet (1926), which transformed a commissioned work of
Sovietachievements inMoscow intoahighlyexperimental film;VictorTurin's
Turksib (1930), a stirring chronicle of the building of the Turkestan-Siberian
railway, and an inspiration to the British and American documentary film
movements of the 1930s; Esther Shub's Fall of the Romanov Dynasty (1927),
culled from pre-Soviet Russian newsreels gathered from Europe and
America; Boris Barnet's The House on Trubnaya (1928), often described as
the best Soviet silent comedy ever; Lev Kuleshov's The Extraordinary
Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks (1924), filled with stunts
and comedy, along with the same director's By the Law (1926), a tense drama set in Alaska based upon a short story
by Jack London; and Mikhail Kalatozov's Salt for Svanetia (1930), which explores the Caucasus region of Svanetia,
a remote, mountainous area where the Ushkul tribe still lived in a stone-age culture.
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GEORGES MELIES:
First Wizard of Cinema
(1896-1913) (5-DVD) 173 Rare & Rediscovered Original Films
Directed by Georges Melies, Georges Franju
A genuine virtuoso, Melies produced and directed his films while also devis-
ing the narratives; designing the sets, costumes and props; and frequently
performing the leading parts. Arranged in chronological order, this compre-
hensive collection makes widely available for the first time both the breadth
and the depth of his work, disclosing a highly imaginative artist's discovery
of the possibilities of cinema.
Georges Melies was also as a master of invention and enchantment.
Included are the celebrated and famous journey films, among them A Trip To
The Moon, The Impossible Voyage, The Kingdom Of Fairies, The Merry
Frolics Of Satan, The Palace Of The Arabian Nights, and The Conquest Of
The Pole. Fifteen films are reproduced from partial or complete hand colored
original prints, thirteen are presented with the original English narrations writ-
ten by Melies. A lovely half hour introductory film, LeGrand Melies(George Franju, 1953), features Melies widow (who
performed in many Melies films) and Andre Melies portraying his father. The enclosed booklet includes a foreword by
Norman Mclaren, a superb essay by John Frazer, and an annotated index to the films by genre.
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THE MOVIES BEGIN -
A Treasure of
Early Cinema,
1894-1913
(133 Complete Motion Pictures)
(Silent) (5-DVD)
Directed by The Lumiere Brothers,
Georges Melies, Edwin S. Porter,
Max Linder, D.W. Griffith, Mack Sennett
The Great Train Robbery & Other
PrimaryWorks:Thissurveyof thecin-
ema's earliest landmarks and rarities
features the 1877 motion studies of
Edward Muybridge, the early produc-
tions of Thomas Edison's Black Maria,
theactualitesofLouisLumiere,George
Melies'sATrip to theMoon (1902),and
climaxes with the premiere of a mint-
conditionprintofEdwinS.Porter'sThe
GreatTrainRobbery,completewiththe
authentic hand-tinting witnessed by audiences of 1903.
Comedy, Spectacle, and New Horizons: This edition explores the establishment of
cinematic genres in the first years of the 20th Century, offering rare glimpses of the
innovative visual comedy of Max Linder, the pioneering Italian epic Nero - or The
Burning Of Rome, the phenomenal animation of Windsor McCoy, the social realism of
Alice Guy Blache's Making of an American Citizen, D. W. Griffith's early melodrama A
Girl and Her Trust, and more!
The European Pioneers: From the archives of the British Film Institute, this collection
features fortydistinctiveworks fromcinema's infancy,producedbysuchEuropioneers
as R.W. Paul, George Edward Smith, Fran Mottershaw, Walter Haggar & Sons, and
JamesBamforth,aswellasbyacknowledged innovators like theLumierebrothersand
Melies. Includes Demolition of a Wall (1896), Exiting the Factory (1895), and Arrival of a
Train at La Ciotat (circa 1895).
Experimentation and Discovery: Frequently comical, often risque, and sometimes
just plain baffling, the twenty films of this anthology challenged the precepts of the
visual representation of narrative, thereby inventing the photographic and editing tech-
niques that would quickly become accepted as cinematic syntax. Includes Peeping
Tom (1901), History of a Crime (1901), How It Feels to be Run Over (1900), and The
Dream of a Rarebit Fiend (1906).
The Magic of Melies: Tribute is paid to the screen's first special effects wizard in this
specialcollectionofmarvelouslyrestoredprints. Inaddition tomore thanadozenofhis
early trompes l'oeil - such as Untamable Wiskers, Tchin-Chao, the Chinese Conjurer,
and The Mermaid - this volume boasts the illuminating documentary, Georges
Melies, Cinema Magician and a rare hand-tinted print of the fantastic spectacle An
Impossible Voyage.
KV 2362D Sale! $84.96
UNSEEN CINEMA -
Early American
Avante-Garde Film
1894-1941(7-DVD)
Directed by Orson Welles, Sergei Eisenstein, Elia Kazan,
Ernst Lubitsch, Victor Fleming, Robert Florey, Busby Berkeley,
William Cameron Menzies, Charles Vidor, Josef Berne, Billy Bitzer,
David Bradley
Includes: The Mechanized Eye: Experiments in Technique and Form /
The Devil’s Plaything: American Surrealism / Light Rhythms: Music
and Abstraction / Inverted Narratives: New Directions in Storytelling /
Picturing a Metropolis: New York City Unveiled / The Amateur as
Auteur: Discovering Paradise in Pictures / Viva La Dance: The
Begninnings of Ciné-dance
IMG 0592D Sale! $84.99
MURNAU
COLLECTION
6-DVD set includes:
• Tartuffe
• The Haunted Castle
• Faust
• Nosferatu
• The Last Laugh
• The Finances of the
Grand Duke
Directed by F.W. Murnau
Digitally mastered from
35mm archival restorations.
KV 6502D Sale! $84.96
GRIFFITH MASTERWORKS
Douglas
Fairbanks
Collection
(Silent)
5-DVD set includes:
The Mark of Zorro / The
Three Musketeers / Robin
Hood / Thief of Baghdad /
Don Q, Son of Zorro /
The Black Pirate
Cinema'soriginalactionheroshines in thiscompilationofhis
most spectacular films. The Douglas Fairbanks Collection
contains six complete titles, including the early Technicolor
Black Pirate and the recently-restored fantastical epic The
ThiefofBagdad. Inaddition tosixcompletemovies, thisbox
set boasts more than three hours worth of special features.
KV 3332D Sale! $84.96
DOUGLAS
FAIRBANKS:
A Modern
Musketeer
5-DVD set includes:
His Picture In the
Papers / The Mystery
of the Leaping Fish /
Flirting With Fate /
And The Matrimaniac
/ Wild And Woolly /
Reaching For The
Moon / A Modern Musketeer / When The Clouds Roll
Buy / The Mollycodle / The Mark Of Zorro / The Nut
Douglas Fairbanks, Kathleen Clifford
Directed by Allan Dwan, Fred Niblo, Paul Powell, Victor
Fleming, Theodore Reed. This five-disc DVD collection
includes eleven of his earlier films before rising to stardom
in his more famous costume spectacles.
FLAL 6740D Sale! $84.98
Valentino:
Rediscovering an
Icon of
Silent Film
(Silent)
2-DVD set includes:
• Young Raja
• Stolen Moments
• A Society Sensation
• Mordan of the
Lady Letty
Rudolph Valentino
This collection boasts an extensive assortment of
bonus short films (with new musical scores), rare audio
recordings, previously unpublished photos, promotional
materials, production photos and other rare items
detailing several aspects of Valentino's remarkable life
and legacy, sure to fascinate film fans and scholars alike.
FLAL 6732D Sale! $50.98
Arbuckle -
The Forgotten
Films of Roscoe
"Fatty" Arbuckle
(Limited Edition)
(4-DVD)
Charlie Chaplin,
Buster Keaton, Douglas
Fairbanks, Rudolph
Valentino, Jackie Coogan
The Forgotten Films of
Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle
contains 32 classic
silent and sound comedies directed by and starring
master filmmaker Roscoe Arbuckle. Restored and
digitally remastered from original archival materials, or the
only known surviving print, each film features completely
restored titles, intertitles, and several films include
previously lost or alternate footage.
JJ 6D Sale! $9.98
Buster Keaton
- Industrial
Strength:
Classic
Commercials,
Industrial Films &
Archival Rarities
(2-DVD)
Buster Keaton is uni-
versally recognized
as one of the all-time
greatest motion
picture comedians.
Whether you enjoy
silent film, classic
comedy, early television, or just revel in the pleasure of
screening rare Keaton material that has been unavailable
for decades, you'll find something to enjoy in this tribute
to one of filmdom's most celebrated comic geniuses.
JJ 83D Sale! $3.98
Laurel &
Hardy -
Early Silent
Classics
Volumes 1-4
(4-DVD)
A 4-DVD collection of
rare, early silent
Laurel and Hardy
movies. Producer Hal
Roach played "comic
roulette," teaming his
stars in the hopes of
hitting box office gold.
The Boys make their first
appearance together in Lucky Dog,
but it will be another ten years before they
truly become a team. This collection showcases the comic
genius of two great performers on the road to fame - Mr.
Laurel and Mr. Hardy.
ALP 9570D Sale! $17
Garbo Silents
Collection
(Silent)
2-DVD set
includes:
• Flesh
and the Devil
• The Mysterious
Lady
• The Temptress
This TCM Archives
2-disc The Garbo
Silents Collection
focuses on Garbo's
earliest years in Hollywood. Each film contributed mighti-
ly in building the Garbo legend that still manages to
fascinate audiences almost 80 years later.
LM 67472D Sale! $7.98