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| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Alice Guy |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 01 January, 1994 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Image Entertainment |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Black & White |
| TYPE: | Miscellaneous |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 014381410327 |
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Customer Reviews of Landmarks of Early Film, Vol. 1
hugely entertaining collection I only have one problem with this disc, really - the lack of credits within the notes; without other sources telling you would you know who was responsible for 'Nero, or the Fall of Rome' or who the stars of 'The Girl and Her Trust' were? A minor point with a collection like this, but a definite niggle.
Still - what we have here is a fabulous 2-hour collection. I think only one hiccup in the descriptions has been identified elsewhere (The film billed as 'The Whole Dam Family and The Dam Dog' is actually 'I B Dam and the Whole Dam Family', its remake, but the original title certainly suits this charming little vignette) and this is a rich selection ranging from the earliest attempts by Edison and the Lumieres to capture events and people on film, to more sophisticated stories by Edwin S Porter, Georges Melies, DW Griffith, and others.
There's a lot to see and admire here, and I didn't spot one dud amongst the whole collection. There's so much more that has survived from this era in early film and surely it is time to make more examples widely available?
An amazing collection
For cinephiles, or anyone interested in the history of film, this is an unbelievable collection. In addition to their interest for understanding the development of film "language", it is striking how many of these films I also found tremendously entertaining in their own right. It's really quite amazing to think how, within one or two decades of the introduction of the medium, people like Melier and Griffith had figured out how to use it to tell stories and entertain us in ways that can still be enjoyed almost 100 years later. That first twenty or so years was a wild ride, though, with a lot of amazing innovations happening as to how to use the new medium, and this collection captures that wonderfully.
Wonderful DVD!
This is the definitive collection of historically important early silent film archives. This DVD, put out by Image, contains a vast amount of silent shorts, including "The Great Train Robbery," and the first ever animated caroon, "Funny Faces". Some of these shorts are meticulously hand-colored, for instance, the red smoke from just about every gun shot in the sixteen minute, "The Great Train Robbery". There is piano accompianiment that accompanies all of these films, so they aren't really silent. The musical cues of the piano track to the films are perfectly accurate. All in all, Image Entertainment has done a great job with this one. Also check out Landmarks, Vol. 2, and Nosferatu, both silent movie DVDs put out by Image.