Saved From The Flames - 54 Rare and Restored Films 1896 - 1944
by Segundo de Chomon, Emil Cohl, D.W. Griffith, Thomas Ince, Mack Sennett
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Actor: Charles Chaplin, Django Reinhardt, Josephine Baker, Stan Laurel, Tony SargDirector: D.W. Griffith, Emil Cohl, Mack Sennett, Segundo de Chomon, Thomas Ince
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 420 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-01-22
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Flicker Alley
Movie Reviews of Saved From The Flames - 54 Rare and Restored Films 1896 - 1944
Movie Review: A huge disappointment
Summary: 1 Stars
There are a lot of interesting items in this collection, but the production is nothing short of atrocious. When using the up-and-down arrows on the disc menus, there is at least a five-second delay before the menu responds. This is exasperating and annoying, but tolerable (just barely).
Even more annoying -- and entirely UNacceptable -- is the fact that the second disc (of three) would not play in any of my players. I got a replacement set (thanks to Amazon's usual excellent customer service), but the replacement set was similarly defective. Again, it was Disc 2 -- it would plays as far as menus, but one selection would freeze up. Several others had severe image disruption or wouldn't play at all (depending on player). This time I gave up on getting a replacement and just took a refund (thanks again, Amazon, for great service).
Perhaps it's because this was originally a French DVD set -- maybe they had inadequate protections in place in preparing the set for Region 1 marketing. Whatever, it's not worth the trouble. Don't bother ordering this, because you'll only waste your time and Amazon's postage when you return it. Too bad, because it would be a collection worth having if it had been properly produced.
Summary of Saved From The Flames - 54 Rare and Restored Films 1896 - 1944
Flicker Alley proudly presents SAVED FROM THE FLAMES, a unique and wonderful collection of 54 rare and restored short films from the inflammable years of cinema. Movies were once made on nitrate film stock, which has a chemical composition similar to gunpowder and is highly vulnerable to fire and decay. This remarkable seven-hour anthology, organized in eight thematic groups over three DVDs, presents amazing treasures from the vaults of Lobster Films in Paris and from the Blackhawk Films Collection, rescued during half a century of gathering movies from the nitrate era.DISC ONE
NEW BEGINNINGS: Seven films including the early cinematic experiments of Lumi?re, Georges Mendel and others, featuring Cyrano De Bergerac from 1900, believed to be the first color and sound film. MAGICAL MOVIES: Five early fantasy and trick films, including a previously-unseen trick film by Georges M?li?s, hand-colored films from Segundo de Chomon and Gaston Velle, and astonishing stop-motion animation from 1911. SEEING THE WORLD: Among the ten films in this section: A transatlantic crossing in a Zeppelin dirigible, a stencilcolored trek through the Belgian Congo in 1925, Parisian street kids in Montmartre during the first World War, a 1916 visit to Los Angeles, 1927 sound film of Charles Lindbergh embarking on his New York-Paris flight, an early 1930s portrait of New York s Coney Island, and a film promoting Josephine Baker s revue at the Folies-Berg?re.
DISC TWO LAUGHING LIKE WE USED TO: Seven comedies, including four restored from turn of the century Italy and France, a recently-discovered nitrate negative of Chaplin's first appearance in his tramp attire, a frenetic Mack Sennett gag fest with tin lizzies galore, and The Pest, starring an early Stan Laurel (before Hardy). DRAWINGS AND MODELS: Six works of animation: Gaumont's Fantasmagorie (1908), three cartoons from the Fleischer Studios Cartoon Factory (1924), Ain't She Sweet (1932), and Play Safe (1936) Ub Iwerks' Balloonland (1935) featuring a new color restoration made from the original negatives, and a filmed performance by puppetry pioneer Tony Sarg. GRACE NOTES: Rare musical performances: Django Reinhardt with Stephane Grapelli and the Quintet of the Hot Club of France, Duke Ellington and the Cotton Club Orchestra, Louis Armstrong, and the Utica Jubilee Singers.
DISC THREE PERSUADE ME: Eleven films designed to influence, including vintage promotional films featuring Laurel & Hardy (dubbed in French), Michel Simon and Jacques Tati, puppet animation by George Pal, three WW-II era musical shorts, two political campaign films, and Master Hands, a paean to the 1936 Chevrolet, selected for the National Film Registry. TELL ME A STORY: Narratives from 1912-1913 by D.W. Griffith (For His Son), Lois Weber (Suspense), and Thomas Ince (The Heart of an Indian), all mastered from beautiful 35 mm film elements.
SAVED FROM THE FLAMES Booklet: An illustrated history and comments on each film in the collection, written by David Shepard and Serge Bromberg.
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