National Film Preservation Foundation (U.S.)
Publisher
Distributed exclusively by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (573 min.) : sd., b&w and col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (186 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
An anthology of films from American film archives. In addition to rare silent-era features, includes cartoons and animation, documentaries and newsreels, earliest American movies, pioneering sound and color experiments, serial episodes, trailers for lost films, advertisements, avant-garde shorts, ethnographic footage, films of ethnic communities, and other film types invented during the first four decades of the motion picture. Contains 50 films followed...
Publisher
National Film Preservation Foundation
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 198 minutes) : si., b&w and col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (48 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
Drawn from a cache of early American movies found at the New Zealand Film Archive and preserved with the American archival community, this collection presents lost works not seen in decades, including films by major directors such as Alfred Hitchcock and a variety of industrial films, news stories, cartoons, travelogues, serial episodes, previews, and comedies.
Publisher
Distributed exclusively by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (642 min.) : sd., chiefly b&w with some col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (xiii, 137 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
An anthology of films from 18 American film archives. Films include documentaries, newsreels, the earliest American movies, avant-garde and independent works, pioneering special effects, amateur and home movies, animated and industrial films, and silent movies from the earliest years of motion pictures (1893-1985).
Publisher
[Distributed by] Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (596 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (xxi, 110 p. : ill. ; 20 cm)
Description
Celebrated is the dynamic, gender-bending, ethnically diverse West that flourished in early movies. Presented is the American West as it was recorded and imagined in the first decades of motion pictures. "Brings together 40 silent and early sound films--narrative shorts and features, documentaries, promotional films, newsreel stories, and travelogues--showcasing the American West as it was recorded and imagined from 1898 to 1938." -- Booklet, p. viii....
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (ca. 738 min.) : sd., b&w with col. sequences ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (xv, 173 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
In the years before World War I, virtually no issue was too controversial to bring to the screen. The first American movies were deeply engaged with society, coming from an era when movies and entertainment were intimately interwoven with public debate. As such, they were shown in commercial movie theaters but also in clubs, churches, schools, and everywhere screens could be hung outdoors--from the sides of city tenements to country barns. This archive...