DVD : Retour de Flamme 3 & 4

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 !

YOU'LL SEE...

WHAT A WHOPPER
Director Charles PARROTT (1921) - USA
Burlesque Black & white

BONUS : Harry "Snub" POLLARD

AU PAYS DES COLOSSES ET DES PYGMÉES
Director Aurélio ROSSI (1925)
Documentary hand-colored

A trip to Congo in the Twenties

BONUS : Movies at the time of the colonies

CARTOON FACTORY
Directors Dave & Max FLEISCHER (1924) - USA
Cartoon Black & white

An episode of KOKO the clown.

BONUS : Studios Disney / Lantz / Fleischer in the twenties; the animated mixture seen real/characters

LE COCHON DANSEUR
Comic Black & White (1907) - France
PATHÉ Production

A music-hall show very funny !

BONUS : links between music-hall and cinema of the origins

MADAME BABYLAS AIME LES ANIMAUX
Director Alfred MACHIN (1911) - France
Comic Black & White

A joke with big humour.

BONUS : Alfred Machin and origins of the animalist cinema

ACTUALITÉS BURLESQUES
Director Gilles MARGARITIS (1948) - France

Information parodies

BONUS : informations in cinema

SIX PUBLICITÉS
Director LORTAC (1920) - France
Cartoons Black & white

A page of animated advertises.

BONUS : LORTAC

THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY
Black & White hand-colored(1903) - USA

The first western of cinema history.

BONUS : beginnings of a kind

DANSE SERPENTINE DANS LA CAGE AUX FAUVES
Documentary hand-colored (1900) - France

KOBELKOFF
Documentary Black & white(1900) - France
Black & White tinted

Exceptional number of man-trunk

BONUS : portrait of KOBELKOFF

HOLLYWOOD STEPS OUT
Director Tex AVERY (1941) - USA
Technicolor cartoon

Hollywood’s golden age, seen by Tex AVERY.

BONUS : details of a dream casting

NEVER WEAKEN
Director Fred NEWMEYER & Mildred DAVIS (1921) - USA
Burlesque Black & white

Harold LLOYD above buildings, two years before Safety Last.

BONUS : Harold LLOYD

JAZZ HOT
Jazz Movie (1939) - United Kingdom
Black & White

Unique documentary with Django REINHARDT, Stéphane GRAPPELLI and The Hot Club de France’s Quintette.

BONUS : history of discovered of an extremely rare document

I’LL SAY SHE IS
Trailer black & white, USA 1931
Production : Paramount, with the Marx Brothers

A delirious imitation of Maurice CHEVALIER by the MARX BROTHERS : trailer of their movie "Monkey Business"

Bonus : the Marx Brother

LA PEINE DU TALION
Black & White hand-colored , France 1906
Production : Pathé - Director : Gaston VELLE
Music : Eric Le Guen

A "fairyhood" of the century beginning realized by one of the specialists.

Bonus : Gaston VELLE, Pathé’s director

ALICE IN WONDERLAND
Fiction black & white tinted, USA 1915
Director : W.W. YOUNG, with Viola SAVOY
Music : Neil Brand

One of the first adaptations of Lewis CARROLL’s work.

Bonus : various adaptations of Alice to the screen

TROIS SOUNDIES
Musicals black & white, USA

3 "soundies".

Bonus : the Soundies, ancestors of the videos clips.

LA CRUE DE LA SEINE
Documentary black & white tinted , France 1910
Music : Eric Le Guen

Extremely rare images of Paris under water.

Bonus : the flood of Paris in 1910

TO SPRING
Cartoon in Technicolor, USA 1936
Production : MGM
Directors : Hugh HARMAN, Rudolf ISING

Spring : very beautiful colors in this Technicolor cartoon

Bonus : musical cartoons at the beginning of the sound cinema

LES FEMMES DÉPUTÉS
Black & white tinted , France 1912
Production : LUX, with Madeleine GUITTY
Music : Eric Le Guen

The women in election campaign give the children and domestic tasks to their husbands.

Bonus : the suffragettes’ movement

MGM PROMO REEL
Black & white , USA 1936
Production : MGM, with Laurel & Hardy

Laurel & Hardy introduce with brilliance the MGM’s productions for the year 1936.

Bonus : how we found this lost film of Laurel and Hardy

LES GOSSES DE LA BUTTE
Docu-fiction black & white, France ca. 1916
Music : Eric Le Guen

We are in 1916, and kids play the war in unrecognizable Montmartre.

Bonus : Montmartre at the beginning of the XXe century

LA JOIE DE VIVRE
Cartoon black & white, France 1934
Production, Animation, Director : Anthony GROSS
Music : Tibor HARSANYI

A floral ballet with art déco inspiration.

Bonus : animation in France in the 30s.

LIZZIES OF THE FIELD
Burlesque black & white, USA 1924
Production : Mack SENNETT, PATHE
Director : Del LORD
With Billy BEVAN, Sid SMITH, Jack LLOYDÉ
Musique : Eric Le Guen

A laughing motor race, in the great burlesque tradition.

Bonus : Mack Sennett, King of Comedy

PHILIPS BROADCAST
Technicolor, Holland 1938
Production : PHILIPS, Director : George PAL
Music : AMBROSE et son orchestre

Swing with puppets, for the promotion of a Philips radio set.

Bonus : George PAL and advertisements.