Exclusive Releases

THE STUDENT OF PRAGUE
(Germany, 1926) Silent tale of the supernatural reunites the two stars from "Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" -- Conrad Veidt is an impoverished student who sells his soul to the devil, played by Werner Krauss. Organ track. $39.95


MISTRESS OF ATLANTIS
(Germany, 1932) 78 min. Directed by G.W. Pabst. The English language version of "L'Atlantide" stars Brigitte Helm as the queen of lost Atlantis, discovered by French legionairres deep in the Sahara Desert. Cold and evil Antinea, with her giant statue and tame leopards, enslaves men to her love. $29.95.
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The Silent Era

PIONEER CINEMA
119 min., organ track. Collection of landmark early shorts from the Lumiere Brothers, Edison Company, Emil Cohl, Melies, Blackton, Porter and others. Includes The Great Train Robbery, Trip to the Moon, Dream of a Rarebit Fiend and El Espectro Rojo. $59.95

PIONEER ANIMATION
119 min., music track. The documentary The Magic Lantern sets the stage, followed by cartoons from Winsor McKay, Raoul Barre, Walt Disney, Max Fleischer, Walter Lantz, and starring Felix the Cat, Krazy Kat, Koko the Clown, Bobby Bumps, Oswald the Rabbit, etc. $39.95

CHARLEY'S AUNT
(1925) 76 min., organ score. Syd Chaplin comedy of disguises. $29.95

CHASING LAUGHTER
(1926) 64 min., organ score. Three hilarious and rare Hal Roach comedies starring Charley Chase: Mum's the Word, Tell'Em Nothing, Mama Behave© $19©95

D.W. GRIFFITH SHORTS
(1909-1913) 86 min., organ score. Those Darn Hats, An Unseen Enemy, Lonedale Operator, Musketeers of Pig Alley, The Lonely Villa, New York Hat and The Yaqui Cur© $29©95

FEEL MY PULSE
(1928) 65 min., organ track. Zany silent comedy with Bebe Daniels as a hypochondriac on vacation who stumbles into smuggler's den run by Richard Arlen and William Powell© $19.95

TWINKLETOES
(1926) 65 min., music score. Rare Colleen Moore drama. $29©95

HAROLD LLOYD SHORTS, VOL. 5
Number Please -- 1920
Get Out and Get Under -- 1920
Why Pick on Me? -- 1918
Bumping Into Broadway -- 1919
Captain Kidds' Kids -- 1919
Ask Father -- 1919
Pay Your Dues -- 1919
119 min., pipe organ track -- $29©95


From Italy:

THE GOLD OF NAPLES
(Italy, 1960) 107 min., subtitles. Vittorio DeSica directs four comic vignettes with Sophia Loren, Toto, Anna Mangano and himself. $39.95

THE GREAT WAR "La Grande Guerra"
(Italy, 1959) 125 min., Letterboxed, subtitles. D: Mario Monicelli. Vittorio Gassman and Alberto Sordi are two cowardly soldiers in World War-I. $39.95

THE IRON CROWN "La Corona Di Ferro"
(Italy, 1941) 99 min., subtitles. D: A. Blasetti. An Italian fantasy spectacle with a cast of thousands. A young super hero is raised by lions. He must rescue the princess raised in seclusion behind three walls with the help of a magic crown that rights injustice! $39.95

JOYFUL LAUGHTER "Risate Di Gioia"
(Italy, 1954) 106 min., subtitles. D: Mario Monicelli. Anna Magnani plays the moving, bitter role of a film extra in Rome's Cinecitta studio who is involved with American exec Fred Clark, con-man Ben Gazzara and Toto. $39.95

THE MAN WITH A CROSS "L'Uomo Dalla Croce"
(Italy, 1943) 75 min., subtitles. Rossellini's third feature. On the Russian front during the summer of 1942, a saintly Italian chaplain aids a group of soldiers and peasants in a small village under Italian and Russian artillery fire. $39.95

RETURN OF THE PILOT "Un Pilota Ritorna"
(Italy, 1942) 87 min. In Italian with NO English subtitles. Roberto Rossellini's second feature is about an Italian pilot interned in a British POW camp. This extremely rare film is easy enough to follow even without subtitles. $59.95

WHITE NIGHTS "Le Notti Bianche"
(Italy, 1957) 94 min., subtitles. D: Luchino Visconti. Marcello Mastroianni, Maria Schell and Jean Marais star in a romantic triangle. Marcello meets a mysterious girl sobbing on a canal bridge. She is in love with a sailor who left on a long journey a year earlier. Love blossoms. The sailor returns. $39.95


Videos from France:

AN OCCURENCE AT OWL CREEK BRIDGE
(France, 1962) 25 min., no dialog. The most famous version of Ambrose Bierce's Civil War tale about the execution of a spy, directed by Robert Enrico. Included is a 1931 version of the same story called The Bridge, by Charles Vidor. $29.95


From Other Countries:

ARSENAL
(USSR, 1929) 94 min., music track. D: Alexander Dovzhenko. Excellent restored version. Brilliant Russian film about their war of 1914: misery in the countryside, horrors at the front, revolution and strike. $29.95

FEVER MOUNTS AT EL PAO
(Mexico, 1959) 97 min., dubbed in English. D: Luis Bunuel. Gerard Philipe is a high-minded but cowardly official who becomes corrupted when he assumes power. $39.95

THE GENERAL LINE "The Old and the New"
(USSR, 1929) 94 min., music track. D: Sergei Eisenstein. Excellent restored version. A cooperative is organized in a typical Russian village where farming conditions are poor. $29.95

PHANTOM CARRIAGE
(Sweden, 1920) 90min., music track. Victor Sjostrom's eerie fantasy film. $29.95

SHATTERED
(Germany, 1921) 64 min., organ track. &quotModern tragedy" about the destruction of a railroad family when the young daughter is seduced by an inspector. Directed by Lupu Pick. $39.95


Avant-Garde & The Surreal

AMERICAN AVANT-GARDE SHORTS
Four Classic experimental films made in the USA: Dream of a Rarebit Fiend (1906) by Edwin S. Porter; Salome (1922) with Nazimova; Fall of the House of Usher (1928) by Watson and Weber; Lot in Sodom (1933) by Watson and Weber.  $39.95

THE CRAZY RAY and ENTR'ACTE
(France, 1925) 60 min., music track. Two early surreal classics by Clair. In Crazy Ray a scientist makes time stand still in Paris. Entr'acte is totally bizarre, and funny! $39.95

EARLY AUTEUR FILMS
Shorts made by great directors early in their careers: J-L Godard's "All the Boys Are Named Patrick"; Alberto Cavalcanti's "Rien Que Les Heures"; Roman Polanski's "Two Men and a Wardrobe" and "Fat and the Lean"; Truffaut's "Les Mistons"; Orson Welles' "Hearts of Age"; Antonioni's "N.U." $59.95

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