The Movies Begin
A Treasury of Early Cinema, 1894-1914.
Kino presents a five-volume collection of pre-1915 Pioneer films, freshly mastered from the finest archive material from the USA, England and France. All have music tracks. Available individually or as a box set of all five volumes: $200.
The Great Train Robbery & Other Primary Works
75m. Eadweard Muybridge's 1877 sequence photography, early Edison and Lumiere films, Melies' A Trip to the Moon, Edwin Porter's Great Train Robbery and Zecca's The Golden Beetle. $49.95
The European Pioneers
58m. Forty distinctive works from cinema's infancy, produced by such pioneers as R.W. Paul (Extraordinary Cab Accident), George Albert Smith, Frank Mottershaw, James Williamson (Stop Thief!), Walter Haggar & Sons and James Bamforth, as well as Louis Lumiere (Demolition of a Wall, Exiting the Factory, Arrival of a Train, etc.) $49.95
Experimentation and Discovery
93m. Twenty comical, risqué and mind-boggling trick films that invented photographic and editing techniques. Included are works by Pathé Freres (Peeping Tom, History of a Crime), Cecil Hepworth (How It Feels to be Run Over) and Edwin S. Porter (Dreams of a Rarebit Fiend). $49.95
The Magic of Melies
103m. Tribute is paid to the screen's first special effects wizard in this collection of marvelously restored, carefully mastered prints. Includes early works like Untamable Whiskers, Tchin-Chao, The Chinese Conjurer, The Eclipse, The Black Imp and The Mermaid, plus the documentary George Melies: Cinema Magician and a rare hand-tinted print of the fantastic Impossible Voyage. $49.95 This program is also available on Laser Disc: $39.99.
Comedy, Spectacle and New Horizons
85m. This volume explores the definition of cinematic genres in the first years of the 20th Century, offering rare glimpses of the innovative comic style of Max Linder, the Italian epic Nero, or the Fall of Rome, the animations of Winsor McCay, the first Keystone Kops film Bangville Police, the social realism of Guy Blaché's Making of an American Citizen, Griffith's early melodrama The Girl and her Trust, and much more! $49.95
First American Features
This Kino series offers a fascinating window onto the American scene just before World War I, as the movie industry shifted from 2-reelers into features. This entire set is available in a laser disc set, 474 min., for $139.99.
The Cheat
(1915) 59m., music. Cecil B. De Mille drama about a society woman menaced by an evil oriental. Includes Maurice Tourneur's comic A Girl's Folly depicting life and love behind the scenes of a 1917 movie studio. $29.95
Civilization
(1916) 86m., music. Thomas H. Ince's masterpiece is an anti-war drama that combines spectacular battle scenes, religious symbolism and tender sentiment to persuade Americans to resist entry into World War I. $29.95
From Manger to the Cross
(1912) 70m., tinted, music. D: Sidney Olcott. This meticulously staged story of Christ was filmed on location in the Holy Land. $29.95
Regeneration
(1915) 82m., music. D: Raoul Walsh. The first feature gangster film, about one woman's effort to reform a criminal in the slums of the Bowery. Includes 1910 Edison short The Police Force of New York City. $29.95
Traffic in Souls
(1913) 88m., music. D: George Loane Tucker. The center of a storm of controversy for daring to address the subject of prostitution. $29.95
Origins of Film Collection
6-volume collector's edition of full-length feature films and animated cartoons from 1900-1926, selected by Smithsonian Video in association with The Library of Congress.
African-American Cinema--I
79m. Contains Oscar Micheaux's Within Our Gates (1919). $29.95
African-American Cinema--II
80m. The Scar of Shame (1926) and the early sound short Sissle and Blake (1923). $29.95
America's First Women Filmmakers
114m. Lois Weber's Too Wise Wives and short comedies. $29.95
Origins of American Animation
84m. 21 full cartoons including Krazy Kat. (1900-1921) $29.95
Origins of the Fantasy Feature
129m. Patchwork Girl of Oz (1914) and A Florida Entertainment (1914). $29.95
Origins of the Gangster Film
82m. D.W. Griffith's The Narrow Road (1912) and Maurice Tourneur's Alias Jimmy Valentine (1914). $29.95
D.W. Griffith -- Father of Film
A Corner in Wheat & shorts
(1909-1913) 118m., music. Biograph shorts: A Corner in Wheat, Those Awful Hats, Sealed Room, Unchanging Sea, His Trust, New York Hat, An Unseen Enemy. $24.95
Musketeers of Pig Alley & Selected Biograph Shorts
(1912-1913) 117m., orchestra score. Musketeers of Pig Alley, Burglar's Dilemma, Sunbeam, Painted Lady, One is Business The Other Crime, Death's Marathon, Battle of Elderbush Gulch. $24.95
Judith of Bethulia and Home Sweet Home
(1913-1914) 118m., music scores. Double feature of two of Griffith's early short features. $24.95
The Birth of a Nation
(1915) 187m., tinted, orchestra score, double cassette. This Kino restoration includes a 30 min. documentary: The Making of Birth of Nation. $39.95 Laser: $79.95
Intolerance
(1916) 177m., tinted, piano score. David Shepard's excellent restoration, released by Kino. $29.95 Laser: $69.95
Hearts of the World
(1918) 122m., music. Lillian and Dorothy Gish in World War-I anti-war epic. $24.95
Broken Blossoms
(1919) C-68m., music, tinted. Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess. $24.95
Way Down East
(1920) 110m., music. Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess in classic melodrama. $24.95
Orphans of the Storm
(1922) 125m., music. Lillian and Dorothy Gish star in Griffith's epic French Revolution story. $24.95 Laser: $69.95