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1) Silent film
Series
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Pub. Date
c1996
Physical Desc
viii, 319 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
4) The artist
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1927, George Valentin is a silent movie superstar. However, the advent of the talkies will kill his career and he will sink into oblivion. For young extra Peppy Miller, it seems the sky's the limit as major movie stardom awaits. Though their careers are taking different paths their destinies will become entwined.
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (414 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The genesis of the motion picture medium is recreated in this collection of the cinema's formative works. More than crucial historical artifacts, these films reveal the foundation from which the styles and stories of the contemporary cinema would later arise.
6) Faust
Author
Language
Silent
Description
A tale of the battle between good and evil, in which Faust sells his soul to Mephistopheles. From the play by Johann Wolfgang Goeth. Score compiled from historic photoplay music by the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra.
Series
Publisher
Flicker Alley
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (660 min.) : sound, tinted & black & white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (27 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)
Language
Français
Description
A collection of five French silent films restored by the Cinemathèque française, originally released by Films Albatros between 1923 and 1928, with new music scores by Timothy Brock, Robert Israel, Neil Brand, Antonio Coppola and the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (875 min.) : sound, black and white and black and white with color tinting ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"This four-disc set showcases more than fourteen hours of rarely-seen silent films about feminist protest, slapstick rebellion, and suggestive gender play. These women organize labor strikes, bake (and weaponize) inedible desserts, explode out of chimneys, electrocute the police force, and assume a range of identities that gleefully dismantle traditional gender norms and sexual constraints. The films span a variety of genres including slapstick comedy,...
Author
Publisher
Overlook Duckworth
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"New York in the late 1980s. Ceinwen Reilly has just moved from Yazoo City, Mississippi, and she's never going back, minimum wage job (vintage store salesgirl) and shabby apartment (Avenue C walkup) be damned. Who cares about earthly matters when Ceinwen can spend her days and her nights at the repertory houses--and most of the time that's left trying to look like Jean Harlow? One day, Ceinwen discovers that her downstairs neighbor may have--just...
Author
Language
Silent
Description
In The Mark Of Zorro, his first full-blown effort at the costume thriller, Fairbanks portrays Don Diego Vega, a comically effete young nobleman with a taste for tasseled sombreros and juvenile silk-hanky magic tricks. But when danger calls, Diego swathes himself in black, straps on a well-honed sword and storms the countryside as the mysterious Zorro, slicing his initial into the faces of the "sentinels of oppression," pausing only to boldly romance...
15) Intolerance
Author
Language
Silent
Description
Four separate stories are interwoven: the fall of Babylon, the death of Christ, the massacre of the Huguenots, and a contemporary drama, all crosscut and building with enormous energy to a thrilling chase and finale.
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
American edition.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (approximately 10 hr.) : silent, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
None
Description
Over ten hours of films survey the short works of three pioneering French filmmakers from the Gaumont studio, including Emile Cohl, Jean Durand, and Jacques Feyder.
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (915 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 guide (43 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm)
Language
English
Description
The story of film: an odyssey, written and directed by award-winning film-maker Mark Cousins, is the story of international cinema told through the history of cinematic innovation. Five years in the making, The Story of Film: An Odyssey covers six continents and 12 decades, showing how film-makers are influenced both by the historical events of their times, and by each other. It provides worldwide guided tour of the greatest movies ever made; an epic...
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