Saved from the flames, Seeing the world

The Resource Saved from the flames, Seeing the world
Label
Saved from the flames, Seeing the world
Title part
Seeing the world
Statement of responsibility
produced by David Shepard and Jeffery Masino
Title variation
  • aSaved from the flames
  • Saved from the flames
Title variation remainder
seeing the world
Contributor
Producer
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
Saved From The Flames is a unique and wonderful collection of 54 rare and restored short films from the inflammable years of cinema. Movies were once made on nitrate film stock, which has a chemical composition similar to gunpowder and is highly vulnerable to fire and decay. This remarkable seven-hour anthology, organized in eight thematic groups, presents amazing treasures, rescued during half a century of gathering movies from the nitrate era. This anthology is based in part upon Retour de Flamme, a screening series from Lobster Films, Paris, and upon films from The Blackhawk Films Collection. The video Seeing The World has ten films, including a transatlantic crossing in a Zeppelin dirigible and a film promoting Josephine Baker's wild revue at the Foliès-Bergere. It also includes the films The Seine Flood; Over the Top; A Visitor to Los Angeles; Montmarte's Kids; The Dirigible Los Angeles; In the Land of Giants and Pygmies; Technicolor Fashion Parade; Charles A. Lindbergh, Hero of the Air; The Fireman of the Follies-Bergere; Meet Me Down at Coney Isle
Additional physical form
Previously released as DVD
Cataloging source
VaAlASP
Characteristic
videorecording
Language note
This edition mostly silent with English intertitles and musical background and some dialogue spoken in English
Runtime
96
Target audience
general

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