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MELIES ENCORE:
26 ADDITIONAL RARE AND ORIGINAL FILMS
BY THE FIRST WIZARD OF CINEMA (1896-1911) [2010]


Georges Melies
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Studio: Flicker Alley

DVD Release Date: February 16, 2010


Director: Georges Melies


Description
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Georges Melies built the world's first movie studio in 1896 and from it cascaded many fantastic films, as featured on Flicker Alley?s monumental thirteen-hour, five-DVD box, Georges Melies, First Wizard of the Cinema. Since it was published, an additional 26 films produced by Melies between 1896 and 1911 have been found and made available for this single-disc, supplemental collection. They further support that Melies was the most accomplished filmmaker in the world during the first years of cinema.

The films collected here are presented as in the earlier set, in chronological order with excellent new music. Although the print quality is variable, most look very nice; five boast beautiful, original hand-coloring, while another five have original English narrations written by Melies. Two are fragments, as the complete films are lost. As a bonus, this collection also includes two films in the Melies style by Segundo de Chomon, which for many years were misidentified as Georges Melies? own work.


Format: NTSC

DVD Size: 7.06 GB -- Exact Untouched Copy

Runtime (main feature): 113 minutes

Type: Black and White

Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 | Non-Anamorphic

Sound (main feature): silent (with English narrations in DD2.0)

The English narrations (2.0 channel) on this set were originally written by Georges Melies, and were designed to be read aloud during the presentation of these films. They have been adapted for this edition by David Shepard and spoken by Serge Bromberg and Pauline Richard. 

Subtitles: none



DISC FEATURES:

Titles included are:

Post No Bills
The Haunted Castle
An Hallucinated Alchemist
On The Roof
The Last Cartridges
Sea Fighting In Greece
Off to Bloomingdale Asylum
The Prolific Magical Egg
Eruption of Mount Pele
Robinson Crusoe (Fragment)
The Mystical Flame
Every Man His Own Cigar Lighter
Fugitive Apparitions
The Wandering Jew
The Christmas Angel
A Mesmerian Experiment
The Mysterious Island
The Inventor Crazybrains and his Wonderful Airship
Robert Macaire and Bertrand Under the Sea
How Bridget's Lover Escaped
Satan in Prison
The King and the Jester
The Doctor's Secret
The Spider and the Butterfly
The Diabolical Church Window
Magic Roses
Excursion to the Moon



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