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Georges
Méliès -
Le Premier Magicien du Cinema
(1896-1913) |
Georges
Méliès
Le Premier Magicien du Cinema (1896-1913) |
Georges
Méliès
Le Premier Magicien du Cinema (1896-1913) |
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Georges
Méliès -
Le Premier Magicien du Cinema (1896-1913)
With this monumental & unprecedented complete
oeuvre 6 DVD box of Georges Méliès,
for the first time an almost complete collection of all
his films became available to the public. This exceptional
collection - recently completed - by Eric Lange, David
Shepard & Serge Bromberg became available from Lobster
Films during September 2010.
For this unique compilation the best restored copies of
all Méliès films where used and on this
occasion each accompanied with a new music score 'dans
l'esprit de l'epoque'. A wonderful extra is the
full version of 'Le Grand Méliès',
a documentary film from 1953 by Georges Franju.
The DVD's are accompanied by a booklet with 'Hommages
a Georges Méliès' by Norman McLaren
& John Frazer and a complete inventory of all films
available on the DVD's. Further the booklet offers an
informative text on the restoration of these films made
by the first conjuror of cinema.
All films are adopted to their original viewing speed
and image format.
The most recent and new Méliès film discoveries
are available on DVD 6 which completes this magical collection.
No doubt, every early film enthusiast should add
this spectacular box to his personal DVD collection.
Click DVD or DVD box for more information on the
publisher.
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E.
J. Marey.
DVD
du colloque du centenaire |
Sous
la direction de
Dominique de Font-Réaulx, Thierry Lefebvre et Laurent
Mannoni |
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E.
J. Marey. Actes
& DVD du colloque du centenaire - 400
films DVD.
In 2004, the centenary of the death of E.
J. Marey was celebrated (1830 - 1904).
Marey was the inventor of 'La méthode Graphique,
Chronophotography and and keyfigure in the cinema pioneer
era.
The textbook
of the 2004 colloquium «Étienne-Jules
Marey et le Film Scientifique», is now available
in a new key reference book 'E. J. Marey.
Actes
du colloque du centenaire'.
The DVD features an unprecedented chronopictorial reference
source making 400 early films
available.
More information on this exceptional DVD can be read on
the Marey Colloque page.
The DVD & book are available in the Cinémathèque'
s bookshop or can be ordered directly from the publisher
ARCADIA.
400 chronophotographical films from the period 1890 - 1904,
preserved by the Cinémathèque Française,
are now available to the public for the first time ever.
Both, book & DVD, make a fascinating reference and should
be available in all filmlibraries and private film bookshelves
of the avid pre-cinema & cinema collector, historian
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Emile Cohl - l'Agitateur aux mille images / part I |
Emile
Cohl - l'Agitateur aux mille images /
part II |
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Emile
Cohl: l' Inventeur du dessin animé /
Emile
Cohl: Inventor the Animation Film
Biography
& complete films of Emile Cohl, inventor of animation
film.
Emile Cohl started his cinema career at the age of 50, producing
more than 300 films, only 65 of his living pictures are
recovered.
The book is accompanied by two DVD's making Cohl's oeuvre
available from one source for the first time.
Click DVD's for more information on the
publisher to visit the website
of the publisher.
Click here
for more information on the book. |
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| Un
Rêve en Couleur |
A
la Recherche du Son |
Documentary by Eric Lange & Serge Bromberg |
Documentary
by Eric Lange & Serge Bromberg |
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'Un
Rêve en Couleur' & 'A
la Recherche du Son', two unprecedented
documentary films made by
Serge Bromberg & Eric
Lange using rare footage mostly from the collection
of the latter film historian/collector.
Both films unveil in great detail the true
story of the dawn of sound
and color in the early moving
pictures and refer to the use of sound and color
in the Magic Lantern, precursor
of cinema.
The sound recordings and footage used for these documentaries
is rather exceptional. Today's leading film historians explain
the complicated histories of how cinema incorporated color
in many different ways and how movies learned to talk using
various technical solutions ...
Both films can be viewed in there original French
language or additional English commentary by Julien Anton,
Paolo Cherchi Usai, Gian Luca Farinelli, Maurice Gianati,
Stephen Herbert, Anthony l'Abbate, Dominique Païni,
and Gilles Trarieux Lumière,
the latter being a descendant of the Lumière brothers.
Click DVD's for more information or Lobster
Films to visit the website of
the publisher. |
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| From
Magic Lantern to Movies / The Optical Magic Lantern 1889
- 1903 |
Published
by PhotoResearch . |
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available on DVD |
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The
Optical Magic Lantern Journal and Photographic Enlarger
(OMLJ) was a British trade
monthly that appeared from 1889 to 1903 and had a remit
covering the magic lantern and illumination through to photography
and the world of early cinema.
The OMLJ featured news and opinions from each of the worlds
and through its correspondence and advertising pages provides
a unique insight into each of these areas at an important
point in their history.
The publication only survives in a few national libraries
and this limited edition DVD offers a rare opportunity for
collectors, researchers, educational institutions and libraries
to acquire a digitised run which is searchable electronically.
The OMLJ covers a key period in the
history of photography and the cinema. It appeared
when the hand camera was rapidly being taken up by amateur
photographers and at a point shortly before the motion picture
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By
the time of the OMLJ's demise in 1903 photography was widely practiced
by amateurs and snapshooters and the cinema had evolved from its
origins into a form of mass entertainment. The OMLJ through its
editorial pages and advertisements charts these changes in detail.
This DVD provides a high-quality facsimile
of all 5000 pages together with a searching tool supported
by additional information around the personalities, companies
and products that made up the industry at the time and which appears
in the OMLJ pages.
The
DVD From Magic Lantern to Movies (ISBN 978-0-9523011-1-0) is published
on 15 October by PhotoResearch and costs £60 including UK
and international airmail postage. It is designed to run on both
Windows-based PCs and Apple Macs with Adobe Acrobat.
Contact: Mike Smith, South Park, Galphay Road, Kirkby Malzeard,
Ripon, North Yorkshire, HG4 3RX, UK
or email Mike Smith: lmh.smith@magiclanternsocy.demon.co.uk. |
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| Kinoautomat
'One Man and his House' |
By
Radúz Cincera |
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The world’s first interactive
movie whose plot and story are determined by the
audience. The hit of EXPO ’67 Montreal
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KINOAUTOMAT
While Kinoautomat was created
in Czechoslovakia by a talented team in 1966-67, it is generally
considered to be the brainchild of Radúz
Cincera. It was a performance, which combined a projected
film with interventions from two stage moderators, which
was shown for the first time at the Czechoslovak Pavilion
at Expo '67 Montreal, where it ran for six months as a one-hour
show.
The
film, 'One Man and his House',
centers around Mr. Novák (played
by Miroslav Hornícek, a very well-known Czech personality)
who finds himself caught up in various situations which
represent moral dilemmas.
Using
a specially constructed voting system,
the audience members can change the trajectory of the
film at several key moments by pressing red
or green buttons. The direction
voted by the majority would then be followed by the projection
team.
The
film itself is a good example of "Czech
New Wave" cinema, but its setting in a theatrical
format takes its inspiration from the "Laterna Magika"
movement, which developed in Prague in the late 1950's.
Click here to visit the Official
Kinoautomat page or click here to
order the DVD.
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After Montreal, the system was set up again at HemisFair '68 in
San Antonio, and had a run in Prague at Kino Svetozor in 1971.
After the addition of some new scenes, it was performed for the
last time at Expo '74 in Spokane. Now, after more than 40 years,
Kinoautomat returns to Svetozor ... (Text
from oficial website) With thanks to Alena Cincerová
who offered me this wonderful DVD in a Brussel's restaurant after
a succesful screening of '
One Man and his House' ...
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The
Origins of Scientific Cinematography |
By
Virgilio Tosi |
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A
documentary film series directed by Virgilio Tosi.
These films complement Tosi’s book 'Cinema
Before Cinema', using archive film and original
equipment to show how cinematography had its origins not
in the music hall or the fairground, but in the laboratory,
as scientists of the 19th and early 20th centuries attempted
to find new ways of seeing and measuring the natural world.
''The Origins of Scientific
Cinematography' & 'Cinema Before Cinema' are
published by the British
Universities Film & Video Council
Click DVD for more information.
See also
Routledge's Encyclopedia
of Early Cinema |
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| Las
Placas de Linterna Mágica Y Su Organización
Taxonómica |
By
Francisco Javier Frutos Esteban. |
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- Doctoral Thesis, University of Salamanca, Spain |
Text
selected from the abstract - This CD is in the Spanish language
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Las Placas de Linterna Mágica Y Su Organización
Taxonómica.
The present doctoral
thesis approaches the taxonomic
organization of Magic Lantern slides commercialized
with a rigid base, translucent, and of any size, independently
of their contents and date and place of origin.
The main hypothesis of the
research poses whether content analysis,
as a technique for coding knowledge about media messages,
can be a suitable method for taxonomically organizing Magic
Lantern slides.
A secondary hypothesis can
then be deduced, related to the choice of the most operational
criterion for classifying Magic Lantern slides: the size
of their base (an ordinal variable with a manifest nature)
or the format (a nominal variable with a latent nature)
The results also lead us to think that the spectator of
the last five years of the 19th.
Century
saw without interruption all the audiovisual projections
offered to him or her, both during magic lantern evenings
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These
possibility has had an influence on the need to open a debate
about the historical-cultural importance of the Magic Lantern
and other media artifacts that emerged between the 15th.
and the 19th.
Centuries,
located half-way between drawing aids, scientific recreation,
popular entertainment and the emerging
mass media.
Click here to read more
information in the Spanish language. Contact
the author Francisco
Javier Frutos Esteban.
This CD contains a 765 pages
PDF file including animated examples of mechanical magic
lantern slides. Besides a myriad of magic lantern slide
illustrations, the CD also depicts many optical toys such
as magic lanterns, phenakistiscopes, zootropes, polyorama
panotiques, peepshow views, etc. |
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The
Dawn of Television Remembered |
The
Dawn of Television Remembered
A documentary by Donald F. McLean
A most interesting double CD audio documentary can be ordered
directly from the maker at Dawn
of Television Remembered.
This generous audio source by Donald F. McLean provide historical
interviews with comments. The supplementary enhanced CD
also offers more than 8 hours of interviews and video
files of the rare restored & reconstructed early
television recordings. Visit
Donald
McLean's website on early televison.
A lecture on the restoration of these 'Phonovision' discs
by Donald F. McLean can be downloaded from TVDAWN-Lecture.
The CD set provide a most thorough reconstruction on the
invention of television and is accompanied by a
book on the restoration of these early television
images.
On the Visual Media Television
page I made a modest attemp to bring you some
rare television news limited to some of my favorite subjects.
Most illustrations on this page comes from original copies
of the Magazine 'TELEVISION' which obviously is one of the
most thrilling temporary references on the birth of a new
medium which conquered the world: 'Television,
the biggest 'Time-Waster'.
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also Routledge's Encyclopaedic 3 volume set
by Stephen Herbert on & Television |
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| MEDIA
MAGICA
series (1 - 6) by Prof. Werner
Nekes / Also available on Video (wernernekes@t-online.de)
Producer / Distribution: Werner Nekes Kassenberg 34 B D-45479
Mülheim/Ruhr Germany.
Each Media Magica DVD costs 29 €, + plus postage. The whole series
of 6 DVD's, temporarely costs the prize of 5. |
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"MEDIA
MAGICA" is a series of DVD's (video's) on
the pre-history and history of Visual Media. The explanatory
text, accompanying this page, comes from different internet
sources accessible through hyperlinks. "Film before
Film" was the first in this very informative series.
Visit Werner Nekes' Web
Site for more information and Shop
for more publications.
The DVD's and information are shown here with kind permission
of Prof. Werner Nekes.
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FILM BEFORE FILM
German title: WAS GESCHAH WIRKLICH ZWISCHEN DEN BILDER
Using
his own unparalleled collection of pre-cinematic devices,
Werner Nekes demonstrates the evolutionary and inventive
processes that came before what we today call 'cinema'.
From cave paintings to Dioramas, peep shows to flick books,
Nekes illuminates a complex lineage in the history of
the moving image.
83 min | color | English, German and French version on
DVD.
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BEYOND THE IMAGE
German title: DURCHSEHKUNST
About
the Camera Obscura, the peep-show, anamorphoses, shadow
theatre and much more. The principle of the Camera Obscura
was already known in the fourth century: a dark room where
a picture of the outside world passes through a small hole
and is pictured back-to-front and upside-down on the opposite
wall. This is the principle that, approximately 1500 years
later, made the development of the photo and movie cameras
possible. The principle of the Camera Obscura played a role
in the research of the laws of perspective. On the other
hand, the peepbox is often a reversal ol the principle of
the Camera Obscura. In the Camera Obscura, or rather, with
its help, views are sketched ‚ in the peep-show, such views
are observed. However, research on perspectives awakens
an interest in its irregularities, in distorted pictures
‚ anamorphoses. Already prior to the play with perspective,
the play with light and shadow is developed. The thousand-year
old shadow theatre with its rich tradition lives on today,
especially in oriental cultures...
53min | color | English, German and French version on DVD.
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PICTURES COME TO LIFE
German title: BELEBTE BILDER
About
the Magic Lantern, animation on paper, object animation,
illuminated panoramas and much more. Together with the research
of perspective, came the wish to awaken pictures to life.
The magic lantern had already achieved the illusion of moving
pictures and this was also used to project shadow pictures.
The magic lantern is the predecessor of the film projector.
This had already been described in the fifteenth century.
Simple ways to create movement are also to be found on paper,
in the pull, push and lift mechanisms of comic picture post
cards or moveable picture books.
Peep show pictures are perforated, pasted over and coloured
from behind in order to make city views come alive through
backlighting.
Another simple way to create the illusion of movement are
panorama pictures: picture worlds that pass before the eye
of the motionless observer or where the observer himself
passes along the picture, as in a carriage ride.
53min | color | English, German and French version on DVD.
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MULTI ‚ THOUSAND PICTURE SHOW
German title: VIELTAUSENDSCHAU
About
montage, folding and transformation pictures, myrioramas
and much more. Alongside perspective and the creation
of the illusion of movement, montage is already a central
aspect in the early history of visual media. Pictures
or sections of pictures are placed in a relationship to
one another in order to give the pictures a new meaning.
Already, in the sixteenth century, there were predecessors
of the techniques of montage, used today in films. An
example is the folding picture montage, where half pictures
combined with pictures beneath, each time present a new
picture.
Through combination of the pictures it is possible to
assemble different versions.
Other examples of early montage forms are transparencies,
picture puzzles and transformation pictures which draw
the gaze towards hidden information.
In the myriorama, the multi-thousand picture show, it
is possible to assemble a never-ending landscape. The
pictured world which results from this montage game is
infinitely variable.
55min | color | English, German and French version on
DVD.
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THE AMBIGUOUS IMAGE AND SPACE
German title: BILD - RAUM
About
perspective-theatres , folding diaramas, stereo-pictures
and much more. Besides perspective, movement and montage,
space is a further early experimental area in visual art.
It reaches from pop-art books or extensions of the picture
space in postcards up to optical prisma, verre eglomisÈ
pictures and depth relief pictures.
Picture worlds in peep-shows are stacked in several layers
and so make space visible.
The folding diorama is developed from the perspective-theatre
and shows places and events on multilevels placed one behind
the other.
Stereo pictures separate what is seen by the left eye from
what is seen by the right eye in two slightly different
pictures. These are then blended together by a mirror, a
stereoscope or polarisation spectacles. Holography promises
three-dimensional films without spectacles.
55min | color | English, German and French version on DVD.
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: THE MAGIC DRUM
German title: WUDERTROMMEL
About
the thaumatrope, stills, the kinora and much more. In 1896
the Lumiére brothers combined the principle of the
Camera Obscura, which takes the picture, with that of the
Magic Lantern, which reproduces the picture, to construct
the cinematograph. But movies ‚ moving picture series ‚
are first made possible by after-image effects and stroboscopic
effects.
Many
early scientists had already studied this phenomenon by
using revolving objects and discs and thus prepared the
way for the cinematograph. The thaumatrope is a rotating
disc with pictures on both sides; when it is rapidly revolved,
both picture sides melt into one. The phenakistiscope, the
zoetrope and the praxinoscope, so-called "wheel of
life" and "magic drum", show pictured phases
of movement in an endless loop The stills taken by Edward
Muybridge demonstrate in exact analysis, movement phases,
for example, the leg movements of a horse´s stride.
In the early days of films, many flickerbooks appear on
the market: "thumb movies", mutoscope and kinora,
where the viewer himself could regulate the speed of the
movement of the printed film pictures.
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SHATTENTHEATER
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SHADOW
THEATRE AROUND THE WORLD |
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Bali
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Thailand |
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The
earliest kind of projection techniques where using shadows.
In Werner Nekes "SHATTENTHEATER
DER WELT" various techniques of the shadow theatre
are seen in reconstructed plays from different countries.
Clicking on the video covers leads you to the original German
description of the documentaries. These video's are a rare
witness of the historical shadow plays in India,
Bali, Thailand, China,
Egypt, Turkey and Greece.
Please order these video's directly from Werner
Nekes.
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