Origins Of Cinema, Vol. 5

30 Years Of Fun (1963)

Category: Silents | Director: Robert Youngson | Rated: NR | Color: Black & White | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Jay Jackson

Writer/director Robert Youngson, the man behind three previous classics compilations, assembled this amazing tribute to the masters of early cinema comedy. Spend a hilarious evening watching memorable ... more

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Before Hollywood There Was Fort Lee, N.J.: Early Moviemaking In New Jersey (1964)

Category: Silents | Director: Thomas Hanlon | Rated: NR | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: No

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Hooray for Fort Lee!?! During the infancy of the motion picture industry, the New Jersey town was the center of American film production. This superb documentary examines how early cinematic works created ... more

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Origins Of Cinema, Vol. 4

Category: Silents | Rated: NR | Color: Black & White | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: James Kirkwood, M. Stoughton, Charles Inslee

The earliest remnants of genius D.W. Griffith's body of work are available here in these 11 silents, providing insights into filmdom's first major producer-director and his pioneering techniques. Shorts ... more

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Origins Of Cinema, Vol. 2

Category: Silents | Rated: NR | Color: Black & White | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: John Trioana, McCutcheon Children

The film industry's earliest experiments with cinema comedy are depicted in these 15 shorts from the American Mutoscope and Biograph studios. Features examples of early chase scenes, special effects ... more

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Origins Of Cinema, Vol. 1

Category: Silents | Rated: NR | Color: Black & White | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Arthur White, Vivian Vaughan

Twenty-two early silent shorts, the majority of which are from the Edison Company's pioneering director, Edwin S. Porter. Emphasis is on pre-production planning, plot structures and knowledge of photography ... more

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Origins Of Cinema, Vol. 3

Category: Silents | Rated: NR | Color: Black & White | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Kate Toncray, D. W. Griffith, Guy Hedlund

Ten silent shorts exemplifying the industry's growth away from its roots in the theatre, the ambitiousness of the producers at American Mutoscope and Biograph studios, and the dawn of documentaries. ... more

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Uncle Tom's Cabin (1927)

Category: Silents | Director: Harry A. Pollard | Rated: NR | Color: Black & White | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: James Lowe, Virginia Grey, George Siegmann

One of the silent film era's most expensive productions, this epic version of Harriet Beecher Stowe's famed novel stars Margarita Fisher as Eliza, a put-upon slave who flees her plantation when her guardian, ... more

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Larry Semon Shorts, Vol. 1

Category: Silents | Director: Ed Powers | Rated: NR | Color: Black & White | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Larry Semon, Oliver Hardy

One of early cinema's first comedy stars, Vitagraph funnyman Larry Semon is spotlighted in six slapstick silent shorts where he also served as co-writer and director. Included are "Dunces and Dangers" ... more

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Larry Semon Shorts, Vol. 2

Category: Silents | Rated: NR | Color: Black & White | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Larry Semon, Oliver Hardy

Laugh along with Larry in this second collection of vintage short comedies featuring the white-faced, derby-wearing clown. Featured here are "Risks and Roughnecks" (1917), "Well, I'll Be" (1919), "The ... more

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