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2) Alive!
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge Books
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
284 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
"Bela Lugosi's Frankenstein screen test puts Valentino in the picture for murder. Everyone knows the Frankenstein monster was played by Boris Karloff. His portrayal is so famous that the play Arsenic and Old Lace was filled with Karloff/monster jokes--even when the part of the monstrously deformed villain was played by another actor. But before Karloff's memorable portrayal, another famous 1930s Hollywood icon, Bela Lugosi, tested for the part of...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (124 min.) : sound, color, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Why preserve film in a world where audiovisual materials seem so readily available online? That is the key question posed in Film, the Living Record of Our Memory, which features interviews with film archivists, curators, technicians, and filmmakers including Costa-Gavras, Jonas Mekas, Patricio Guzmán, Ken Loach, Bill Morrison, Fernando Trueba, Wim Wenders, and appearances by Martin Scorsese, Barbara Rubin, Idrissa Ouédraogo, Ridley Scott, and Ousmane...
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
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...
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