The great train robbery and other primary works
By: Kino International ; produced by Film Preservation Associates and The British Film Institute ; produced for video by David Shepard and Heather Stewart
Contributors: Melies, Georges, 1861-1938; Porter, Edwin S.; Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931; Lumiere, Auguste, 1862-1954; Lumiere, Louis, 1864-1948; Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904; Zecca, Ferdinand, 1864-1947; Kino International Corporation; Film Preservation Associates; British Film Institute
Series: Movies begin, a treasury of early cinema, 1894-1914
Publisher: Kino on Video
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 75
Subjects: Silent films; History and criticism; Motion picture film collections; Motion pictures; History; Motion picture industry
Other titles: Movies begin, a treasury of early cinema, 1894-1914,; Treasury of early cinema 1894-1914,; Treasury of early cinema, 1894-1913.
Description: The genesis of the motion picture medium is recreated in this collection of films from cinema's formative period. More than crucial historical artifacts, these films reveal the foundation from which the styles and stories of the contemporary cinema would later arise.
Notes: Videodisc release of a program originally re; eased om 1994.

"Featuring the films of: Edwin S. Porter, Thomas A. Edison, Auguste and Louis Lumiere, Georges Melies, Eadweard Muybridge, Ferdinand Zecca"--Container.

"'Homage to Eadweard Muybridge' by arrangement with the University of Southern California. Narration for 'A trip to the moon' by Georges Melies, adapted and read by Fabrice Zagury. Vintage recordings from the collection of George Wagner"--Container.

Music compiled and composed by Robert Israel ; program notes by Charles Musser.

DVD, NTSC.
Table of contents: title: Films:; title: Homage to Eadweard Muybridge (Series photography) -- (1880s).; title: Edison shorts -- (1894-97):; title: The kiss --; title: Serpentine dances --; title: Sandow -- ; title: Glenrow brothers --; title: Cockfight --; title: The barber shop --; title: Feeding the doves -- ; title: Seminary girls. -- August & Louis Lumiere -- (1895-96):; title: Swimming in the sea - - ; title: Children digging for clams --; title: Loading a boiler --; title: Dragoons crossing the Saone --; title: Promenade of ostriches --; title: Childish quarrel --; title: Lion, London Zoological Garden --; title: Photograph --; title: Transformation by hats --; title: Carmaux: Drawing out the coke --; title: Poultry yard --; title: Arab cortege, Geneva --; title: New York: Brooklyn Bridge --; title: New York: Broadway & Union Sq. --; title: Policeman's parade, Chicago --; title: A trip to the moon -- (1902); title: Actualities:; title: Pres. McKinley at home  -- (1897); title: Packtrain on Chilkoot Pass -- (1898); title: Skyscrapers of New York  -- (1903); title: Georgetown Loop -- (1903); title: San Francisco aftermath of earthquake  -- (1906); title: Dog and his various merits -- (1906); title: Moscow clad in snow -- (1908); title: Airplane flight & wreck -- (1910).; title: Biograph blue movies:; title: Fire in a burlesque theatre -- (1908); title: Airy fairy Lillian tries on her new corsets  -- (1908); title: From show girl to burlesque queen -- (1908); title: Troubles of a manager of a burlesque show -- (1908); title: The great train robbery -- (1903); title: The whole dam [sic] family and the dam [sic] dog -- (1905); title: The golden beetle  -- (1907) -- Text:; title: Program notes  -- by Charles Musser; title: DVD production credits.