Edison. the invention of the movies Disc 1 1889-1903
A comprehensive survey of one of cinema's most influential figures, Edison: The Invention of the Movies is a monumental collection of 140 archival motion pictures. From 19th-century camera tests never intended for public screening to the last feature-length film released by the Thomas A. Edison Studios in 1918 (The Unbeliever), the collection is digitally mastered with musical scores, surrounded by a wealth of historical documents and interviews with leading film archivists and historians.
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Physical Description
videodisc
1 videodisc (182 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. - Publisher New York, NY : Kino Classics, [2023]
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Title from disc label. Special features: two hours of video interviews with cinema scholars, discussing specific films, the Edison Studios, and efforts to preserve the Edison legacy; photo archives of more than 200 documents from MoMA's Edision Collection; detailed film notes by Charles Musser, the world's leading authority on the Edison studio. GMD: videodisc. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Kinetoscopic record of a sneeze -- Sandow -- The black diamond express -- Jack and the beanstalk -- The gay shoe clerk -- Life of an American fireman. |
| System Details Note: | DVD, region 0, NTSC. |