Discovering Cinema

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1 General Information
2 Cover
3 Information
- 3.1 Learning to Talk
- 3.2 Movies Dream in Color
4 Screenshots
5 Technical Specs
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History Documentary hosted by Serge Bromberg and published by Others in 2003 - English narration

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SYNOPSIS:

Discovering Cinema is 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. Discovering Cinema also contains over two and a half hours of fascinating bonus materials, including an extraordinary new restoration of the first live action film to utilize the three-strip Technicolor process, La Cucaracha (1934), struck from the original nitrate negatives.

Additional bonus features include two 1908 films with songs performed by Enrico Caruso, a 1927 interview with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 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 stenciled-colored Paris fashion review from the mid-1920s, unique color film images of the Marx Brothers shot in 1930, and many other wonderful treasures. Discovering Cinema has been made in collaboration with several renowned archives including the Archives Francaises du Film, the Association Freres Lumiere, the Cinematheque Francaise, the Cinematheque Gaumont, the Cineteca di Bologna, the Conseil General de Charente, the Danish Film Institute, Filmarchiv Austria, Film Preservation Associates, the George Eastman House, the Library of Congress, the Musee des Arts et Metiers, the Musee Gaumont, the Societe Francaise de Photographie, and many private collectors.

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DISC 1:

Learning to Talk
Documentary illustrating the birth of sound cinema.

BONUS FEATURES:

LIVE SOUND
Quand Madelon (1917, 2 min)

La Pere La Victoire (1917, 3 min)
The Chamber Mystery - Excerpt (1920, 3 min)
Miss Venus - Excerpt (1921, 3 min)
SOUND ON DISC
Lucia Di Lammermoor (1908, 4 min)
La Donna e Mobile (1908, 2 min)
Carmen: Air du Toreador (1910, 4 min)
La Legende du Roi Gambrinus (1911, 2 min)
La Marseillaise (1911, 2 min)
Nursery Favorites (1913 5 min)
Trailer to The Jazz Singer (1927, 6 min)
OPTICAL SOUND
Snappy Tunes (1923, 6 min)
Theodore Case Test Film (32 seconds)
Gus Visser and His Singing Duck ( 1min)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ( 1927, 10 min)
Governor young Hails Greater Movie Season (1928, 2 min)
Finding His Voice (1929, 10 min)
The Collegian: Flying High (1929, 21 min)

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DISC 2:

Movies Dream in Color
Documentary illustrating the birth of color cinema.

BONUS FEATURES:

APPLIED COLOR PROCESSES
Hand-Painted films by Lumiere
Blacksmith Scene (1895, 32 seconds)
Death of Marat (1897, 38 seconds)
Danse Serpentine (1898, 51 seconds)
Execution of Joan of Arc (1898, 51 seconds)
Spanish Dancers (1898, 2 min)
Stencil-Colored Films
Metamorphosis of the Butterfly (1904, 1 min)
The Flower Fairy (1905, 1 min)
The Arab Sorcerer (1906, 2 min)
Paris Fashions (1926, 4 min)
ADDITIVE COLOR PROCESS
Inaguration of the San Marco Campanile (1912, 11 min)
Dr. Doyen Color Test (1912, 40 seconds)
Sonia Delaunay Color Test (1928, 24 seconds)
Tea Time (1937, 3 min)
SUBTRACTIVE COLOR PROCESSES
Wonderland of California (1930, 6 min)
The King of Jazz - Trailer (1930, 3 min)
La Cucaracha (1934, 19 min)
Becky Sharp - Trailer (1935, 2 min)
New York (1938, 5 min)

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