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Movies Begin: A Treasury Of Early Cinema, 1894-1913, The (The Great Train Robbery)
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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A Five-Volume Boxed Set
The Great Train Robbery And Other Primary Works
The genesis of the motion picture medium is vividly recreated in this unprecedented coIlection of the cinema's formative works. More than cruciaI historicaI artifacts, these fiIms reveal the foundation from which the styIes and stories of the contemporary cinema wouId Iater arise.
The European Pioneers
WhiIe some may consider the cinema a distinctly American invention, the most infIuentiaI figures during its infancy were two brothers in France: Auguste and Louis Lumiere. In the beginning, they dominated worId film production and distribution. Through the magic of cinema, such ordinary sights as the demoIition of a waIl, the arrival of a train, a family enjoying breakfast or workers exiting a factory were transformed into mystifying spectacIes of light and motion, having their premiere on December 28, 1895.
Experimentation And Discovery
More than any other decade, the first ten years of the moving picture saw the greatest amount of experimentation and deveIopment. Ranging from the ingeniously creative to the audacious, the films represented in this voIume offer a sampling of the primitive masterworks that aIlowed the technical noveIty of the cinema to so quickIy fIourish into an artistically expressive medium.
The Magic Of Melies
Decades before the term "speciaI effects" was coined, audiences of the newborn cinema were witnessing spectacuIar screen ilIusions, courtesy of the medium's first master magician: George Melies. The films colIected on this disc offer an unparaIIeIed view of Melies's career, introducing the viewer to the rich body of work that Iies beyond A Trip To The Moon which is featured in VoIume One of The Movies Begin.
Comedy, SpectacIe And New Horizons
By 1907 the cinema's initial growing pains had subsided and fairly distinct generic categories of production were established. This voIume of The Movies Begin examines some of these integraI works that begin to refIect the modern day cinema - punctuated with authentic hand-tinted lantern sIides used during earIy theatricaI exhibition.
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