Edison : the invention of the movies

Edison The invention of the movies

DVD - 2023

"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Studios in 1918 (The Unbeliever), the collection is digitally mastered with musical scores, surrounded by a wealth of historical documents and interviews with leading film archivists and historians."--Container.

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Subjects
Edison, Thomas A. > (Thomas Alva), > 1847-1931.
Thomas A. Edison, Inc., > film producer.
Motion picture industry > United States > History.
Short films.
Feature films.
Silent films.
Actualities (Motion pictures)
Trick films.
Documentary films.
Comedy films.
Animated films.
Genres
Short films
Feature films
Silent films
Actualities (Motion pictures)
Trick films
Documentary films
Comedy films
Animated films
Published
New York, NY : Kino Classics 2023.
Language
English
Corporate Authors
Thomas A. Edison, Inc, Kino International Corporation, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.), Library of Congress
Corporate Authors
Thomas A. Edison, Inc (film producer), Kino International Corporation (production company), Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (contributor), Library of Congress
Other Authors
Steven Higgins (curator), Charles Musser (film director), W. K.-L. (William Kennedy-Laurie) Dickson, 1860-1935 (-), Edwin S. Porter (actor), Alfred Clark (performer), Alan Crosland, 1894-1936, James H. White, Erich Von Stroheim, 1885-1957, Eugen Sandow, 1867-1925, Fred Ott, May Irwin, 1862-1938, John C. Rice, Annie Oakley, 1860-1926, Annabelle Moore, 1878-1961, Gilbert M. Anderson, 1880-1971, Marc MacDermott, 1880-1929
Item Description
Curated by Steven Higgins and Charles Musser.
Originally issued as a compilation in 2005.
Extras include: 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 Edison Collection; detailed film notes by Charles Musser, the world's leading authority on the Edison studio
Physical Description
4 v. (1 videodisc per volume) : sound, black & white and color ; 4 3/4 in
Format
DVD; region 0.
Production Credits
Directors include: William K.L. Dickson, Edwin S. Porter, Alfred Clark, Alan Crosland, James H. White; music composers include, Philip Carli, Jon C. Mirsalis, Ben Model, Donald Sosin, Clark Wilson.
  • Disc 1: 1889-1903. Early Edison camera tests ( Monkeyshines, no. 1 ; Dickson greeting ; Newark athlete (with indian clubs); Men Boxing (1889-1891)
  • Blacksmithing scene (1893)
  • The Barber shop (1893)
  • Edison Kinetoscopic record of a sneeze (1894)
  • Athlete with a wand (1894)
  • Sandow (1894)
  • Carmencita (1894)
  • Boxing cats (1894)
  • Caicedo with pole (1894)
  • Annabelle buttefly dance (1894)
  • Cockfight no. 2 (1894)
  • Corbett and Courtney before the kinetograph (1894)
  • Sioux ghost dance (1894)
  • Buffalo dance (1894)
  • The Hornbacker-Murphy fight (1894)
  • Hadj Cheriff, Arab knife juggler (1894)
  • Glenroy Bros. no. 2 (1894)
  • Louis Martinetti, contortionist (1894)
  • Bucking broncho (1894)
  • Annie Oakley (1894)
  • Imperial Japanese dance (1894)
  • Robetta and Doretto, Chinese laundry scene (1894)
  • Band drill (1894)
  • Fire rescue (1894)
  • Billy Edwards and the unknown (1895)
  • Dickson experimental sound fillm (1895)
  • Princess Ali, Egyptian dance (1895)
  • Anabelle serpentine dance (1895)
  • The execution of Mary, Queen of Scots (1895)
  • Amy Muller (1896)
  • The John C. Rice-May Irwin kiss (1896)
  • Shooting the chutes (1896)
  • Fatima, muscle dancer (1896, original and censored versions)
  • Mess call (1896)
  • Inventor Edison sketched by world artist (1896, with J. Stuart Blackton)
  • Watermelon eating contest (1896)
  • The lone fisherman (1896)
  • Interrupted lovers (1896)
  • Feeding the doves (1896)
  • A morning bath (1896)
  • The burning stable (1896)
  • Mounted police charge (1896)
  • McKinley parade (1896)
  • Going to the fire (1896)
  • A morning alarm (1896)
  • Black diamond express (1896)
  • American Falls from above, American side (1896)
  • The first sleigh ride (1896)
  • The morning alarm (1896)
  • Mr. Edison at work in his chemical laboratory (1897)
  • Return of lifeboat (1897)
  • Troop ships for the Phlippines (1898)
  • U.S. troops landing at Daiquiri, Cuba (1898)
  • The Burglar on the roof (1898)
  • Firemen rescuing men and women (1899)
  • A wringing good joke (1899)
  • Gold rush scenes in the Klondike (1899)
  • Searching ruins on Broadway for dead bodies, Galveston (1900)
  • The Kiss (1900)
  • Capture of Boer battery by British (1900)
  • A storm at sea (1900)
  • Old maid having her picture taken (1901)
  • High diving scene (1901)
  • Photographing a country couple (1901)
  • What happened on twenty-third street, New York City (1901)
  • Pan-American Exposition by night (1901)
  • Trapeze disrobing act (1901)
  • The burning of Durland's Riding Academy (1902)
  • Jack and the Beanstalk (1902)
  • Electrocuting an elephant (1903)
  • The life of an American fireman (1903)
  • Egyptian Fakir with dancing monkey (1903)
  • A scrap in black and white (1903)
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin (1903)
  • The Gay shoe clerk (1903)
  • Turning the tables (1903)
  • What happened in the tunnel (1903)
  • The great train robbery (1903).
  • Disc 2: 1904-1907. European rest cure (1904)
  • How a French nobleman got a wife through the New York Herald personal columns (1904)
  • The strenuous life; or, anti-race suicide (1904)
  • The ex-convict (1904)
  • The Klepto-maniac (1905)
  • The seven ages (1905)
  • The whole Dam family and the Dam dog (1905)
  • Coney Island at night (1905)
  • The little train robbery (1905)
  • The white caps (1905)
  • The miller's daughter (1905)
  • Train wreckers (1905)
  • Life of an American policeman (1905)
  • Police chasing scorching auto (1905)
  • The dream of a rarebit fiend (1906)
  • Three American beauties (1906)
  • Films of the San Francisco Earthquake (1906)
  • The terrible kids (1906)
  • Kathleen Mavourneen (1906)
  • Getting evidence (1906)
  • The "Teddy" bears (1907).
  • Disc 3: 1907-1913. Cohen's fire sale (1907)
  • The rivals (1907)
  • The trainer's daughter; or, A race for love (1907)
  • College chums (1907)
  • Laughing gas (1907)
  • A little girl who did not believe in Santa Claus (1907)
  • A suburbanite's ingenious alarm (1908)
  • Rescued from an eagle's nest (1908)
  • Fireside reminiscences (1908)
  • Cupid's pranks (1908)
  • Tale the autumn leaves told (1908, fragment)
  • The house of cards (1909)
  • New York of today (1910)
  • Hop Bumptious papered the parlor (1910)
  • Thirty days at hard labor (1912)
  • The passer-by !g (1912)
  • The totville eye (1912)
  • The public and private care of infants (1912)
  • An unsullied shield (1913).
  • Disc 4 : 1913-1918. At bear track gulch (1913)
  • The ambassador's daughter (1913)
  • A serenade by proxy (1913)
  • All on account of a transfer (1913)
  • One touch of nature (1914)
  • The adventure of the hasty elopement (1914)
  • The wonders of magnetism (1915)
  • Black eyes (1915)
  • The lone game (1915)
  • The Unbeliever (1918) / directed by Alan Crosland ; starring Erich Von Stroheim, Marguerite Courtot, Raymond McKee

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