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Format: 3 Blu-ray-Discs (1005 Min.) , schwarz-weiß ; farbig

Uniform Title: The Mack Sennett collection - Vol. one

Content: Now, for the first time, thanks to Flicker Alley, CineMuseum, and Keystone Films, over 100 of the best surviving Sennett comedies have been gathered from around the world, fully restored, and digitally re-mastered in HD for Blu-ray home video. "The Mack Sennett Collection, Vol. One" features the first 50 of these films presented on a 3-disc Blu-ray set. The Keystone Film Company, under the guidance of pioneering producer and director Mack Sennett, was the birthplace of classic American slapstick comedy. This historic studio was at one time home to a staggering number of silent screen luminaries including Mabel Normand, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, Harold Lloyd, Gloria Swanson, Wallace Beery, Harry Langdon, Marie Dressler, Ben Turpin, The Keystone Cops, Ford Sterling, Charley Chase, Al St. John, Mack Swain, Edgar Kennedy, Billy Bevan, Louise Fazenda, Eddie Quillan, and countless others. Even Hollywood icon Charlie Chaplin, still the world's most recognized actor, introduced his beloved Tramp character under the auspices of Keystone. Later, under the Mack Sennett Comedies banner, Sennett went on to produce a new generation of sound comedies, some in early color, featuring the likes of W.C. Fields, Bing Crosby, Lloyd Hamilton, Andy Clyde, and more. [www.flickeralley.com]

Note: 〈〈The〉〉 Curtain Pole (1909) / Director: Mack Sennett , 〈〈The〉〉 Manicure Lady (1911) / Director: Mack Sennett , Dash Through the Clouds (1912) / Director: Mack Sennett , 〈〈The〉〉 Water Nymph (1912) / Director: Mack Sennett , 〈〈A〉〉 Grocery Clerk's Romance (1912) / Director: Mack Sennett , On His Wedding Day (1913) / Director: Mack Sennett , Bangville Police (1913) / Director: Henry Lehrman , 〈〈A〉〉 Fishy Affair (1913) / Director: Mack Sennett , 〈〈The〉〉 Speed Kings (1913) / Director: Wilfred Lucas , 〈〈A〉〉 Thief Catcher (1914) / Director: Ford Sterling , 〈〈The〉〉 Great Toe Mystery (1914) / Director: Charles Avery , Recreation (1914) / Director: Charles Chaplin , Shot in the Excitement (1914) / Director: Rube Miller , 〈〈The〉〉 Noise of Bombs (1914) / Director: Mack Sennett , Ambrose's First Falsehood (1914) / Director: F. Richard Jones , 〈〈A〉〉 Bird's a Bird / Director: Walter Wright , Gussle's Day of Rest (1915) / Director: F. Richard Jones , Do-Re-Mi-Boom! (1915) / Director: Walter Wright , 〈〈A〉〉 Lover's Lost Control (1915) / Directors: Charles Avery & Syd Chaplin , 〈〈A〉〉 Submarine Pirate (1915) / Directors: Charles Avery & Syd Chaplin , Fatty and Mabel Adrift (1916) / Director: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle , His Bitter Pill (1916) / Director: Fred Fishback [= Fred Hibbard] , Madcap Ambrose (1916) / Director: Fred Fishback [= Fred Hibbard] , Teddy at the Throttle (1917) / Director: Clarence G. Badger , Her Torpedoed Love (1917) / Director: Frank Griffin , 〈〈A〉〉 Clever Dummy (1917) / Director: Herman C. Raymaker, Ferris Hartman & Robert P. Kerr , Hearts and Flowers (1919) / Director: Edward F. Cline , Down on the Farm (1920) / Director: Ray Gray [= Ray Grey], F. Richard Jones & Erle C. Kenton , Don't Weaken! (1920) / Director: Malcolm St. Clair , Gymnasium Jim (1922) / Director: Roy Del Ruth & F. Richard Jones , 〈〈The〉〉 Extra Girl (1923) / Director: F. Richard Jones , 〈〈The〉〉 Dare-Devil (1923) / Director: Del Lord , Black Oxfords (1924) / Director: Del Lord , Galloping Bungalows (1924) / Director: Edward F. Cline , His Marriage Wow (1925) / Director: Harry Edwards , Super-Hooper-Dyne Lizzies (1925) / Director: Del Lord , 〈〈A〉〉 Rainy Knight (1925) / Director: Lloyd Bacon , Saturday Afternoon (1926) / Director: Harry Edwards , 〈〈A〉〉 Sea Dog's Tale (1926) / Director: Del Lord , Hoboken to Hollywood (1926) / Director: Del Lord , Ice Cold Cocos (1926) / Director: Del Lord , Broke in China (1927) / Director: Eddie Cline [= Edward F. Cline] , 〈〈The〉〉 Pride of Pikeville (1927) / Alf Goulding [= Alfred J. Goulding] , Fiddlesticks (1927) / Director: Harry Edwards , Run, Girl, Run (1928) / Director: Alfred J. Goulding , Taxi for Two (1928) / Director: Del Lord , 〈〈The〉〉 Bluffer (1930) / Director: Mack Sennett , 〈〈The〉〉 Dentist (1932) / Director: Leslie Pearce , Don't Play Bridge with Your Wife (1933) / Director: Leslie Pearce , 〈〈The〉〉 Fatal Glass of Beer (1933) / Director: Clyde Bruckman , Stummfilm mit engl. Zwischentiteln ; engl.

Language: English

Keywords: Blu-Ray-Disc

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Format: 1 Blu-ray-Disc (99 Min.) , schwarz-weiß

Series Statement: The Masters of Cinema Series 99

Uniform Title: The mother and the law

Content: After D.W. Griffith's masterpiece "Intolerance" failed at the box office, two of the four tales that make up that movie were extracted and released as their own separate features to try to recoup more money. In the case of "The Woman and the Law", the "modern day" segment, this is ironically fitting, since it was originally conceived as an independent feature before Griffith got the idea of incorporating it into a frame tale. It opens with the Ludlow Massacre but is otherwise a fictional tale, chronicling a man and woman who cannot seem to escape the lower class. One sequence, involving the interference of social workers in the integrity of a family, is wrenching and remains relevant today. Though good, "The Mother and the Law" is best seen in "Intolerance", where the concurrent telling of three other tales adds power to the impact of this one. [www.rinkworks.com]

Note: Stummfilm mit engl. Zwischentiteln

Language: English

Keywords: Blu-Ray-Disc

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Format: 1 Blu-ray-Disc (63 Min.) , schwarz-weiß

Series Statement: The Masters of Cinema Series 99

Uniform Title: The fall of Babylon

Content: After D.W. Griffith's masterpiece "Intolerance" failed at the box office, two of the four tales that make up that movie were extracted and released as their own separate features to try to recoup more money. "The Fall of Babylon" is the best and most lavish of the four, featuring a set larger than any previously built for a film, 5000 extras, and 250 chariots. The battle scenes are large and sweeping, with some surprisingly violent stunts and effects, yet for all the spectacle, Griffith keeps the essence of the story centered on basically just one character, called only the Mountain Girl, who is instrumental in bringing about the events that come to pass. Her story is given as much attention as Babylon's. It's a wonderful perspective; in rooting a historical saga with a human element, it reminds us that humanity and history are not as segregated as we sometimes inexplicably think. The story stands alone well enough, but it is best to see it as it was intended to be, within the larger framework of "Intolerance". There, the impact of this story is all the greater, as it represents one of several facets of a great human injustice. [www.rinkworks.com]

Note: Stummfilm mit engl. Zwischentiteln

Language: English

Keywords: Blu-Ray-Disc

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Format: 2 Blu-ray-Discs (167 Min.) , teilw. viragiert

Series Statement: The Masters of Cinema Series 99

Uniform Title: Intolerance

Content: Vier parallel montierte Geschichten aus verschiedenen Zeitabschnitten erzählen vor verschiedenen kulturellen Hintergründen von Intoleranz, Ungerechtigkeit und Unterdrückung: Amerika zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts, Judäa im Jahr 27 nach Christus, Paris zur Zeit der Hugenotten-Verfolgung und Babylon im Jahr 539 vor Christus. Griffiths Stummfilm-Klassiker wurde nicht nur durch seine gigantomanische Entstehungsgeschichte berühmt, sondern auch dank seiner zur damaligen Zeit unkonventionelle Bildsprache und Erzählstrategie, die stilbildenden Charakter hatte. Der Film liegt nun in einer hervorragend restaurierten, viragierten Fassung mit vorzüglich komponierter neuer Musik vor. - Sehenswert ab 14. [Film-Dienst]

Note: enthält außerdem: , Three Hours That Shook the World - Observations on "Intolerance" (2013) , Stummfilm mit engl. Zwischentiteln

Language: English

Keywords: Blu-Ray-Disc

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Format: 4 DVD-Videos (875 Min.) , schwarz-weiß ; viragiert

Uniform Title: Cinema's first nasty women

Content: This four-disc set showcase more than fourteen hours of rarely-seen silent films about feminist protest, slapstick rebellion, and suggestive gender play. These women organize labor strikes, bake (and weaponize) inedible desserts, explode out of chimneys, electrocute the police force, and assume a range of identities that gleefully dismantle traditional gender norms and sexual constraints. The films span a variety of genres including slapstick comedy, genteel farce, the trick film, cowboy melodrama, and adventure thriller. "Cinema's First Nasty Women" includes 99 European and American silent films, produced from 1898 to 1926, sourced from thirteen international film archives and libraries, with all-new musical scores, video introductions, commentary tracks, and a lavishly illustrated booklet. [kinolorber.com]

Note: Stummfilm mit Zwischentiteln / UT: engl. ; franz. ; span.

Language: English

Keywords: DVD-Video ; Blu-Ray-Disc

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Format: [DVD] (187 Min.) , s/w , dolby digital 2.0

Uniform Title: The Birth of a Nation

Content: Das Schicksal zweier geachteter Familien vor, während und nach dem US-amerikanischen Bürgerkrieg (1861-1865), bei dem sich ihre Mitglieder durch unterschiedliche Loyalität zum Norden beziehungsweise Süden auf verschiedenen Seiten finden. Nach dem Krieg leiden die Südstaaten unter der Niederlage und der Siegerjustiz, doch nähern sich die Familien einander schließlich wieder an. In die Filmgeschichte eingegangenes Historienmelodram von David Wark Griffith, das ästhetisch und filmtechnisch Maßstäbe setzte. Indem Griffith sich in dem Stummfilm unverhohlen auf die Seite des "weißen Südens" stellte, rassistische Stereotype verwendete und die Gewalt des Ku Klux Klan verklärte, schuf er zugleich das erste berüchtigte Propagandawerk der Kinematografie. [Film-Dienst]

Note: Bildformat: 4:3 , enthält außerdem: , 〈〈The〉〉 Making of the Birth of a Nation (1993) , Stummfilm mit engl. Zwischentiteln

Language: English

Keywords: Film ; DVD-Video

Author information: Griffith, D. W. 1875-1948

Author information: Dixon, Thomas 1864-1946