To make the pleasure of the show everlasting, discover once more your Favourite films ! These titles are made up of very rare short films never published on video. Thanks to them you will enjoy a great visit through 50 years of cinema !
Box set of 2 DVD Pal All Zones Original Versions Language & Subtitles: French / English Colors / Black & White Lenght 4h19 approx |
YOU’LL SEE ... LEAVING THE FACTORY
B&W Documentary View, France ca.1896, runtime 1’
Music: Neil Brand
TRAIN PULLING INTO A STATION
B&W Documentary View, France ca.1897, runtime 1’30
Production: Gaumont, music: Neil Brand
CARD GAME
Hand-Tinted Documentary View, France ca.1896, runtime 1’
Music: Neil Brand
LOUIS LUMIERE TALKS
B&W Interview, France 1948, runtime 3’40
Direction: Georges Sadoul
STOLEN JOOLS
B&W Comedy, USA 1931, runtime 18’30
Production: Paramount, direction: William McGann
Starring Laurel and Hardy, Buster Keaton, Joan Crawford, Gary Cooper, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Fay Wray and Maurice Chevalier
THE RAJAH’S BOX
Stencil-Colored Fantasy, France 1906, runtime 8’
Production: Pathé, direction: Gaston Velle, Music: Neil Brand
TITANIC
B&W Documentary, USA 1912, runtime 10’, music: Neil Brand
The only existing images of the famous Titanic, some hours before she left for her last voyage !
KIDS AUTO RACES IN VENICE
B&W Slapstick, USA 1914, runtime 6’
Production: Keystone, direction: Henry Lehrman
Starring Charles Chaplin, music: Neil Brand
The very first appearance of Chaplin’s Little Tramp character.
MEET ME DOWN AT CONEY ISLE
B&W Documentary, USA 1932, runtime 8’
Production: Fox Magic Carpet of Movietone
CHESS FEVER
B&W Slapstick, Russia 1925, runtime 20’
Direction: Vsevolod Pudovkin, music: Neil Brand
THE FIREMAN OF THE FOLIES-BERGÈRE
B&W Comedy, France 1928, runtime 7’30
Starring Josephine Baker, music: Neil Brand
A film enigma, presumably used to promote Josephine Baker’s wild revue “Vents de Folies” at the legendary Paris music hall, Folies-Bergères, in 1927-1928.
CELLES QUI S’EN FONT (WORRIED)
B&W Drama, France 1930, runtime 5’
Production: Isis Film, direction: Germaine Dulac
With Lilian Constantini, Georges Vallée
Illustration of two songs of French realist singer Fréhel.
TULIPS SHALL GROW
Technicolor Animation, USA 1942, runtime 7’
Production: Paramount, direction: George Pal
Wooden puppets animated one frame at a time by a cartoon master.
OSCAR 1944
MIGHTY LIKE A MOOSE
B&W Tinted Slapstick, USA 1926, runtime 22’
Production: Hal Roach, direction: Leo Mc Carey
Starring Charley Chase, Vivian Oakland, Buddy the Dog
Music: Robert Israël
A great meeting between director Leo Mc Carey (Laurel and Hardy, the Marx Brothers) and the forgotten yet brilliant slapstick actor Charley Chase!
A MAN WHO ATE BULL MEAT
B&W Comic Film, France 1935, runtime 7’
Production: Victor Films, direction: Eugène Deslaw
Comments: Bétove
THOSE AWFUL HATS
Black and White Comic film, USA 1909, 2’55
Production: Biograph, direction David W. Griffith
An unusual film by the father of modern cinema.
Bonus : A portrait of D. W. Griffith
THE MYSTERY OF THE LEAPING FISH
Black and White Slapstick film, USA 1916, 26’27
Production: Triangle / Fine Arts, direction: John Emerson, script: Tod Browning
Starring Douglas Fairbanks and Bessie Love
Douglas Fairbanks as a drug-addicted Sherlock Holmes, based on a script by Tod Browning. A cult movie!
Bonus : Drug addiction on screen / Portrait of Tod Browning and Douglas Fairbanks
CHASE OF THE MONKEY
Black and White Comic film, Italy 1909, 4’
Production: Itala Films
Bonus : The Early comics in Europe / The Italian production at the turn of the Century
FOR HER MOTHER'S DAY
Black and White Drama, France 1906, 2’26
Production: Pathé
Bonus : Charles Pathé and his empire
KIRIKI, JAPANESES ACROBATS
Black and White Trick film hand-tinted, France 1907, 2’37
Production: Pathé, direction: Segundo de Chomon
Bonus : Segundo de Chomon / The special effects in the Trick films
This film is avaliable in flip-book
LA MARSEILLAISE
Black and White Song, France 1907, 2’39
Production: Georges Mendel; interpreted by Mr Noté from the Opéra
The National French anthem performed on stage.
Bonus : The first steps of sound in film
WEEK-END
Black and White Commercial, France 1938, 2’16
Starring French actor / singer Fernandel
Bonus : Fernandel’s debut on screen and on stage
CLO-CLOCHE
Black and White Commercial, France 1935, 2’09
Starring French actor Michel Simon
Bonus : The different characters interpreted by Michel Simon
PLAY SAFE
Technicolor Cartoon, USA 1936, 7’19
Production: Fleischer Studios, direction: Dave Fleischer
Betty Boop’s little brother animated by Popeye’s and Superman’s Daddy!
Bonus : The Fleischer Studios / Technicolor in cartoon / The three-dimensional technique used in the film
STOLEN KISSES
Black and White and tinted, 1920, 2’17
Censored kisses scenes edited one after the other
Bonus : Censorship on screen in the 1920’s
PARIS FASHION
Black and White Documentary stencil-tinted, France 1926, 5’40
Production: Unie Filmrevue
Bonus : Fashion in the Newsreels
BLACK AND TAN
Black and White Drama, USA 1929, 18’11
Production: RKO, direction: Dudley Murphy
Starring Duke Ellington and his Cotton Club orchestra
Bonus : The beginning of Black American cinema
THREE FILMS BY CARTOONIST O'GALOP
Resisting Tuberculosis, Great Oaks from Small Acorns Grow, The Alcohol Cycle
Black and White Cartoons, France 1918, 6’
Bonus : The French Public Health Campaign of 1918
DR PYCKLE AND MR PRIDE
Black and White Slapstick film, USA 1925, 19’42
Production: Joe Rock / Standard Cinema, direction: Percy Pembroke
Starring Stan Laurel
PORKY’S PREVIEW
Black and White Cartoon, USA 1941, 6’18
Production: Warner, direction: Tex Avery
Bonus : Tex Avery’s debut within the ‘Termite Terrace’
Box set of 2 DVD Pal All Zones Original Versions Language & Subtitles: French / English Colors / Black & White Lenght 4h19 approx |