4xDVDRip | Silent with Music + Eng comments | 640x480 | XviD ~992 kbps | MP3, ~128 kbps | 5.88 GB
Art - house, Short movies, Black & White
Art - house, Short movies, Black & White
Four DVD set dedicated to Thomas Edison's company's consolidation of pre-cinema science and entertainment into 'the movies.'
An Interactive History of the Edison Company and the Invention of the Motion Picture. An unprecedented collection from Kino International and the Film/Media Department of The Museum of Modern Art together with the Library of Congress.
* 140 complete EDISON COMPANY films 1891-1918 restored and newly mastered for DVD with all new musical scores
* Over two hundred scans of artifacts from MOMA'S EDISON COLLECTION never available to the public before Including:
* Stills * Script fragments * Interoffice memos * Promotions
* Film by film Program notes by Charles Musser, the world's leading authority on the films of the Thomas Edison studio
* Two Hours of interviews with archivists and Early Cinema Scholars
* Steven Higgins - Curator, Department of Film and Media, The Museum of Modern Art
* Charles Musser - Professor of Film and American Studies, Yale University
* Patrick Loughney - Head, Moving Image Section, The Library of Congress
* Michelle Wallace - Professor of English, The City College
* Eileen Bowser - Curator Emerita, The Museum of Modern Art
* Paul Israel - Director and editor of the Edison Papers
* Richard Koszarski - Associate Professor of English, Rutgers University
Run time: ~ 03:06 + 03:50 + 03:53 + 03:45 hours
country: usa
NO MIRRORS PLEASE