| Description |
2 DVD's (267 min) : sound, color with black and white sequences; 4 3/4 in. |
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optical |
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video file |
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DVD video |
| System Details |
DVD (NTSC, region 0). |
| Performer |
Interviewees on first film: Julien Anton, Paolo Cherchi Usai, Maurice Gianati, Stephen Herbert; interviewees on second film: Paolo Cherchi Usai, Gian Luca Farinelli, Maurice Gianati, Stephen Herbert, Anthony L'Abbate, Dominique Paini. |
| Note |
First film originally released as Les premiers pas du cinema : á la recherche du son; second film originally released as Les premiers pas du cinema : Un rêve en couleur. |
| Contents |
[Disc 1]. Learning to talk / Lobster & Histoire present a film by Eric Lange and Serge Bromberg (52 min.) -- DVD extras: Son direct = Live sound: Quand madelon (1917, 3:19 min.) -- La Père la Victorie (1917, 3:55 min.) -- Chamber mystery [extract] (1920, 8:15 min.) -- Miss Venus [extract] (1921, 4:58 min.) -- Ain't she sweet (1933, 7:13 min.) -- Son sur disque = Sound on disc: Lucia Di Lammermoor (1908, 4:01 min.) -- La donna e mobile (1908, 2:29 min.) -- Carmen 'Air du Toreador' (1910, 4:17 min.) -- Legende du Roi Gambrinus (1911, 2:37 min.) -- Marseillaise (1911, 2:48 min.) -- Nursery favorites (1913, 5:29 min.) -- Chanteur de jazz = Jazz singer [trailer] (1927, 6:53 min.) -- Son optique = Optical sound: Snappy tunes (1923, 6:51 min.) -- Theodore Case test film (1924, 0:32 min.) -- Gus Visser and his singing duck (Ma he's making eyes at me) (1925, 1:36 min.) -- Arthur Conan Doyle (1927, 10:37 min.) -- Governor Young hails greater talkie season (1928, 2:29 min.) -- Finding his voice (1929, 10:12 min.). |
| Summary |
First film is a historical survey of the development of sound in motion pictures second film is a historical survey of the development of color in motion pictures. Both include with early films included to illustrate the main points of technological and artistic development. |
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[Disc 2]. Movies dream in color / Lobster & Histoire present a film by Eric Lange and Serge Bromberg. (52 min.) -- DVD extras: Coloriage = Coloring: Forgerons = Blacksmith scene (1895, 0:32 min.) -- Mort de Marat = Death at (1897, 0:38 min.) -- Danse serpentine (1898, 0:51 min.) -- Exécution de Jeannne d'Arc = Execution of Joan of Arc (1898, 0:41 min.) -- Danseurs espagnols = Spanish dancers (1898, 2:01 min.) -- Métamorphoses du Papillon = Metamorphosis of the butterfly (1904, 1:21 min.) -- Fée aux Fleurs = Flower fairy (1905, 1:07 min.) -- Sorcier arabe = Arab sorcerer (1906, 2:45 min.) -- Paris fashions (1926, 4:45 min.) -- Synthesè additive = Additive synthesis: Inauguration du Campanile de San Marco = Inauguration of the San Marco Campanile (1912, 11 min.) -- Essai trichrome du Dr. Doyen = Dr. Doyen color test (1912, 0:40 min.) -- Essai couluer de Sonia Delaunay = Sonia Delaunay color test (1928, 0:24 min.) -- Jeunes femmes prenant le Thé = Tea time (1937, 3:11 min.) -- Synthese soustractive = Subtractive synthes̀is: Wonderland of California (1930, 6:50 min.) -- King of Jazz (1930, 3:34 min.) -- La Cucaracha (1934, 19:37 min.) -- Becky Sharp [trailer] (1935, 2:46 min.) -- New York (1938, 5:03 min.). |
| Language |
English language tracks with English voiceovers for interviews in French; intertitles of bonus materials vary. |
| Genre/Form |
Documentary films.
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Documentary films.
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| Subject |
Color motion pictures -- History.
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Color motion pictures. |
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History. |
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Sound motion pictures -- History and criticism.
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Sound motion pictures. |
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Sound motion pictures.
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Color motion pictures.
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Motion pictures -- Production and direction -- History.
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Motion pictures -- Production and direction. |
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Video recordings.
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Video recordings.
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| Added Author |
Lange, Eric.
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Bromberg, Serge.
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Lobster Films (Firm)
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| Added Title |
Premiers pas du cinema.
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Premiers pas du cinema, á la recherche du son
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Á la recherche du son.
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Learning to talk.
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Premiers pas du cinema, Un rêve en couleur.
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Rêve en couleur.
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Movies dream in color.
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| ISBN |
1893967336 |
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9781893967335 |
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