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DISCOVERING CINEMA
"Learning to Talk" & "Movies Dream in Color"
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Discovering Cinema is a 2-disc DVD set comprised of Learning to Talk and Movies Dream in Color, produced by Lobster Films/Histoire, 2003-2004. Film historians Eric Lange and Serge Bromberg compiled materials from their own Lobster Films collection and material from archives throughout Europe and the USA to create these two historic documentaries illustrating the birth of sound and color cinema, perhaps the greatest cultural achievement of the twentieth century.
This collection also contains over two and a half hours of bonus materials
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DISCOVERING CINEMA
Discovering Cinema - "Learning to Talk" & "Movies Dream in Color" / 267 min. / B&W / Tinted / Color / Silent / Sound
Flicker Alley and Blackhawk Films present “Discovering Cinema” a two-disc DVD set comprised of Learning to Talk and Movies Dream in Color, produced by Lobster Films/Histoire, 2003-2004. Film historians Eric Lange and Serge Bromberg compiled materials from their own Lobster Films collection and material from archives throughout Europe and the USA to create these two historic documentaries illustrating the birth of sound and color cinema, perhaps the greatest cultural achievement of the twentieth century.
Told from a European perspective, American viewers of these documentaries will be surprised by moving footage of Emile Reynaud's pre-cinema animated projectied entertainment "Pantomimes Lumineuse", the gadget-packed Allefex machine for live sync sound effects, Gaumont's 1905 Chronophone sound film system, using a compressed-air amplifier and their Chronochrome three-color systems and additional unique examples of the Kodacolor lenticular color system, Kinemacolor, an additive system using filters, and NotoFilm in which notes of the intended musical accompaniment streams across the bottom of the silent screen.
Bonus Features
DISCOVERING CINEMA
Additional Bonus Materials include:
Two 1908 films with songs performed by Enrico Caruso
An example of a "part-talkie" as an episode of the silent serial "The Collegians"
The first hand-painted Lumiere films from the end of the nineteenth century.
A vintage stencil-colored Paris fashion review from the mid-1920s
Unique color film images of the Marx Brothers shot in 1930
Images
DISCOVERING CINEMA
Live Sound: La Pere La Victorie (1917)
Live Sound: The Chamber Mystery (1920)
Sound on Disc: La Donna e Mobile (1908)
Learning to Talk: Benito Mussolini
Optical Sound: The Collegiate (1929)
Applied Color Processes: Danse Serpetine (1898)
Subtractive Color Processes: The King of Jazz trailer (1930)
Subtractive Color Processes: Wonderland of California (1930)
Subtractive Color Processes: La Cucaracha (1934)
Subtractive Color Processes: New York (1938)
