Experimentation and discovery
By: Kino International ; produced by Film Preservation Associates and The British Film Institute ; produced for video by Heather Stewart
Contributors: Salt, Barry; Hepworth, Cecil M., 1874-1953; Fitzhamon, Lewis; Martin, J. H.; Pathe?, Charles, 1863-1957; Zecca, Ferdinand, 1864-1947; Nouquet, Lucien; Velle, Gason; Porter, Edwin S.; Hepworth Manufacturing Co; International Film Co; Thomas A. Edison, Inc; Cricks and Martin (Firm); Kineto Production Co; Film Preservation Associates; British Film Institute; Kino International Corporation
Series: Movies begin, a treasury of early cinema, 1894-1914 -- 3
Publisher: Kino on Video
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 58
Subjects: Silent films; History; Motion pictures; Motion picture industry; Cinematographers; Motion picture producers and directors; Films
Other titles: Movies begin, a treasury of early cinema, 1894-1914,; treasury of early cinema 1894-1914,; How it feels to be run over.; Explosion of a motor car.; Rescued by Rover.; Day in the life of a coalminer.; Revolution in Odessa.; Gay shoe clerk.; Ali Baba and the forty thieves.; Aladdin or the wonderful lamp.; Dream of a rarebit fiend.; Story of a crime.
Description: The genesis of the motion picture medium is recreated in this 5-part collection of the cinema's formative works which reveal the foundation from which the styles and plots of contemporary cinema would later evolve. In this third program the films presented here, ranging from the ingeniously creative to the boldly audacious, offer a sampling of the primitive masterworks from the first ten years of motion picture production that allowed the technical novelty of cinema to so quickly flourish into an artistically expressive medium.
Notes: Originally produced in 1994.

Piano accompaniment by Neil Brand ; enclosed annotations by Charles Musser.

Commentary by Barry Salt.

DVD, NTSC.
Table of contents: title: C. Hepworth: How it feels to be run over (1900); Explosion of a motor car (1900); Rescued by Rover (1905).; title: L. Fitzhamon: Other side of the hedge (1905); That fatal sneeze (1905).; title: Cricks and Martin: Visit to Peek Frean & Co.'s bisquet works (1906).; title: Kineto Production Co.: Day in the life of a coalminer (1910).; title: C. Freres: Peeping Tom (1901).; title: F. Zecca: Ali Baba and the forty thieves (1902-05); Story of a crime (1901); Dream and reality (1901).; title: L. Nouquet. Revolution in Odessa (1905); Aladdin or the marvelous lamp (1906).; title: P. Zecca: Runaway horse (1907); Physician of the castle (1908).; title: G. Velle: Magic bricks (1908).; title: International Film Co.: Dewar's Scotch whiskey (1897).; title: E. Porter: Gay shoe clerk (1903); Dream of a rarebit fiend (1906).