Sinopsis
"Saved from the flames" (Salvados de las llamas) es una colección de 54 cortos de los primeros tiempos del cine, cuando las palículas eran de nitrato, altamente inflamables.
Todos los cortos han sido restaurados y su calidad en algunos casos es francamente asombrosa. Esta colección se basa en los programas y antologías "Retour de Flamme" de Lobster Films, que se dedica a la preservación y restauración de obras de los inicios del séptimo arte.
DISC 1:
NEW BEGINNINGS:
Seven films including the early cinematic experiments of Lumière, Georges Mendel and others, featuring Cyrano De Bergerac from 1900, believed to be the first color and sound film.
- Exiting the Factory (France, 1896, 1:13 min) - La sortie des usines Lumiere
- Arrival of a Train (France, 1897, :48 min) - L'arrive d'un train a La Ciotat
- Card Party (France, 1896, 1:26 min) - Partie de cartes (Leopoldo Fregoli, 1897)
- Kobelkoff (France, 1900, 1:24 min)
- Danse Serpentine (France, 1900, 2:08 ) - Danse Serpentine (Alice Guy, 1900)
- Cyrano de Bergerac (Hand Colored, Sound on Cylinder, Phon-Cinema-Theatre, 1900, 1:55) - Cyrano de Bergerac (Clement Maurice, 1900)
- La Marseillaise (Sound on Disc, France, 1907, 2:41 min) - La Marseillaise (Georges Mendel, 1907)
MAGICAL MOVIES:
Five early fantasy and trick films, including a previously-unseen trick film by Georges Méliès, hand-colored films from Segundo de Chomon and Gaston Velle, and astonishing stop-motion animation from 1911.
- Excelsior! - Prince of Magicians (France, 1901, 2:06 min) - Excelsior! (Georges Maliašs, 1901)
- The Talion Punishment (France, 1906, 4:13 min) - Peine du Talion (Gaston Velle, 1906)
- Kiriki, Japanese Acrobats (France, 1907, 2:38 min) - Les Kiriki, acrobates japonais (Segundo de Choman, 1907)
- An Excursion to the Moon (France, 1908, 6:47 min) - Excursion dans la lune (Segundo de Choman, 1908)
- The Automatic Moving Company (France, 1911, 4:23 min) - Le Garde-meuble (Romeo Bosetti, 1911)
SEEING THE WORLD:
Among the ten films in this section: A transatlantic crossing in a Zeppelin dirigible, a stencil-colored 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-Bergère.
- The Seine Flood (France, Eclipse co 1910, 4:16 min)
- Over the Top (USA, 1915, 11:22 min)
- A Visit to Los Angeles (USA, 1916, 10:25 min)
- Montmartre's Kids (France, 1916, 3:51 min) - Gosses de la butte
- The Dirigible Los Angeles (USA, 1924, 19:24 min)
- In the Land of Giants and Pygmies (Stencil Colored, 1925, 8:33 min)
- Technicolor Fashion Parade (USA, 1927, 5:53 min)
- Charles A. Lindbergh, Hero of the Air (USA, 1927, 11:50)
- The Fireman of the Follies-Bergere (with Josephine Baker, France, 1928, 7:38 min)
- Met Me Down at Coney Isle - Fox Magic Carpet of Movietone (USA, 1932, 8:13 min)
Los cortos del volumen 1 son mudos, con su música original en algunos casos o creada para esta edición en otros.
