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 4h37 approx |
YOU'LL SEE...
ARTHÈME AVALE SA CLARINETTE
France, 1912
Comic film with delirious special effects.
THE COOK
USA, 1918
Buster KEATON and Fatty ARBUCKLE are incorrigible restaurant servers.
ALL THIS AND RABBIT STEW
USA, 1941
A Tex AVERY cartoon.
AMOUR ET PUBLICITÉ
France, 1932
In this visionary comedy, the store mannequins are replaced by truths human beings.
EXCURSION DANS LA LUNE
France, 1908
A contemporary faithful color copy of legendary MELIES ’ "A Trip To the Moon", by Segundo de CHOMON.
LA SAMARITAINE
France, 1930
Slides of a mail order business service 40 years before the computer invention.
PUBLI-CINÉ
France, 1935-1950
6 tasty advertisements for a brilliantine, razors and furniture, with Jacques TATI and LAUREL & HARDY as guests !
BY INDIAN POST
USA, 1919
An extremely rare western directed by John FORD.
CYRANO DE BERGERAC
France, 1900
The "ballade du duel" interpreted by Coquelin AÎNÉ for the Exposition Universelle of Paris.
AIN’T SHE SWEET
USA, 1933
The famous "Bouncing Ball" of the brothers Max and Dave FLEISCHER (Popeye, Betty Boop) : the ancestor of the karaoke, with inimitable Lilian ROTH.
DOWN IN THE DEEP (Le pêcheur de perles)
Director : Ferdinand ZECCA (France, 1907)
Ten years before the first underwater films, Ferdinand ZECCA brings us pictures of the Deep.
Get ready for a big adventure - and in colour, too !
BONUS : Ferdinand ZECCA
SUSPENSE
Director : Loïs WEBER (USA, 1913)
A woman, at home alone, is attacked by a prowler.
A simple but effective plot ! Suspense will have you holding your breath to the final frame.
This film’s modern, realist style will send shivers down your spine !
BONUS : Loïs WEBER
BALLOONLAND
Director : Ub IWERKS (USA, 1935)
A magnificent cartoon, in colour, by Ub IWERKS, the man who drew Mickey Mouse !
BONUS : Ub IWERKS
NAUGHTY BOYS
Comedies (France, 1905)
- Fâcheuse méprise
- Confession
Too much morality is the end of morality !
That’s the message of these two films. The separation of Church and State in 1905 certainly had its effect on French film- makers -and gave us something to be thankful for !
BONUS : Cinema and religion
BIP... BIP... BIP... ICI PARIS
Erotic comedy with Pauline CARTON (France, 1950)
Pauline CARTON, the most famous concierge in French cinema, presenting a strip-tease ? Unlikely ?
But we can guarantee you a thrill ! - our grandparents were not quite as prime as we imagine !
BONUS : Erotism in cinema
POST NO BILLS
Director : Ralph CEDAR (USA, 1923)
No, it’s not Charley CHASE, but his brother James PARROTT.
His mission : to cover the whole town with posters. A bill-sticker ought to know how to post his bills without getting angry. Alas, our hero isn’t quite up to the task...
BONUS : James PARROTT
MAKING AN AMERICAN CITIZEN
Director : Alice GUY BLACHÉ (USA, 1912)
"Ivan, if you want to be a good American, you mustn’t hit your wife !"
That’s the message from Alice GUY, accompanied by a rather original music soundtrack - to say the least !
So, to get your lesson, turn up the sound !
BONUS : Alice GUY BLACHÉ
MAKIN’ ’EM MOVE
Director : John FOSTER (USA, 1931)
All about making cartoon... in a cartoon !
From the first sketches to the finished film : all aboard for seven crazy minutes inside an animation studio.
BONUS : The Van BEUREN’s studios
GIRAFFE-HUTING IN OUGANDA
Documentary (France, 1910)
This print was miraculously rediscovered by collector René CHARLES.
BONUS : René CHARLES, collector
THE PEST
Director : Jess ROBBINS (USA, 1923)
Stan LAUREL is a determined salesman who will stop at nothing to shift his product.
BONUS : Stan LAUREL
GREGOR AND HIS GREGORIANS
Director : Roger LION (France, 1930)
You know of Ray VENTURA, but have you heard about Gregor and his Gregorians ? This next item is one of the first musical films in French cinema, a jazz opera from 1930.
One of the violonists is none other than the legendary Stéphane GRAPPELLI !
Can you spot him ?
BONUS : Grégor and its orchestra
FRENCH COMMERCIALS
4 advertisements (France, 1935-1955)
- Le bon boa (1935)
- Brillantine Cadoricin (1950)
- Massacre de la musique (1955)
- Ma femme de ménage est une sorcière (1955)
Here are four delightful french ads : for Mademoiselle, a little brillantine; for Madame, some detergent to make washday easier... And for Monsieur, some decent tobacco !
BONUS : When the movie stars make publicity
Box set of 2 DVD Pal All Zones Original Versions Language & Subtitles: French / English Colors / Black & White Lenght 4h37 approx |