Editorial Reviews
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A magnificent collection for anyone interested in the earliest days of film history, this compilation of films spans the years from 1886 to 1913, from the first experiments in "serial photography" to the emergence of narrative shorts and the dawn of the feature-length film. It's a veritable archive of nearly every important film from the birth of the medium, including Edison Kinestoscope films (1894-96), films by the brothers Lumière (1895-97), the magical movies of French special effects pioneer Georges Méliès, documentary "actualities" from 1897 to 1910, and selected short films from 1903 to 1913. The two-hour collection offers a fascinating study of how motion pictures quickly developed a variety of applications and a means of artistic and practical expression, with their own emerging language of camera style, editing, and cinematography. Watching these films is like stepping into a time machine to witness the infancy of motion pictures, which would rapidly evolve to become the most powerful medium of the 20th century prior to the development of television. --Jeff Shannon
Description
In celebration of the centennial of the birth of cinema, "Landmarks of Early Film" offers a collection of more than 40 films made in the early days of the medium. All films are mastered at correct speeds from excellent source material with new musical scores. Features a hand-colored copy of "The Great Train Robbery" from 1903, and "A Trip To The Moon" by George Melies with its original 1902 narration restored.
An amazing collection, July 28, 2003
Reviewer: A viewer from London, Ontario Canada
For cinephiles, or anyone interested in the history of film, this is an unbelievable collection. In addition to their interest for understanding the development of film "language", it is striking how many of these films I also found tremendously entertaining in their own right. It's really quite amazing to think how, within one or two decades of the introduction of the medium, people like Melier and Griffith had figured out how to use it to tell stories and entertain us in ways that can still be enjoyed almost 100 years later. That first twenty or so years was a wild ride, though, with a lot of amazing innovations happening as to how to use the new medium, and this collection captures that wonderfully.
There are 40 shorts on this DVD,
34 are on the
Landmarks.of.early.film.vol1.(cd1.1886-1908).(silent,.Edison,.Lumiere,.Melies).XviD.{Ursule}.avi 
and 6 on the
Landmarks.of.early.film.vol1.(cd2.1909-1913).(silent,.Edison,.Lumiere,.Melies).XviD.{Ursule}.avi Fist disc:
TotalSize: 700 MB (or 717,774 KB or 735,000,576 bytes)
Interleaving: vbrmp3
Bitrate: 1567 k(=1000)Bits/s
FPS: 29.970
(part of the shorts were interlaced)
Duration: 00:57:55 (104,139 fr)
Quality: 0.227 bits/(pixel*frame).
Resolution: 576x400 (1.44:1) [=36:25]
(some of the shorts have this resolution while other will have black bars on the left and on the right)
01. Program start; SERIES PHOTOGRAPHY 1877-1885
Homage to Eadweard Muybridge
EDISON KINETOSCOPE FILMS 1894-1896
02. The kiss
http://akas.imdb.com/title/tt0139738/
03. Serpentine dances
http://amazon.imdb.com/Title/ASIN=630507559X?0000296
04. Sandow (The strong man)
http://akas.imdb.com/title/tt0203853/
05. Glenroy brothers (Comic boxing)
http://akas.imdb.com/title/tt0256782/
06. Cockfight
http://akas.imdb.com/title/tt0204973/
07. The barber shop
http://akas.imdb.com/title/tt0229235/
08. Feeding the doves
http://akas.imdb.com/title/tt0203492/
09. Seminary girls
http://akas.imdb.com/title/tt0216197/
LUMIERE FILMS 1895-1897
10. Exiting the factory
http://amazon.imdb.com/Title/ASIN=630507559X?0000010
11. Arrival of a train at La Ciotat
http://amazon.imdb.com/Title/ASIN=630507559X?0000012
12. Baby's lunch
http://amazon.imdb.com/Title/ASIN=630507559X?0000029
13. The sprinkler sprinkled
http://amazon.imdb.com/Title/ASIN=630507559X?0000014
14. Dragoons crossing the Saone
http://amazon.imdb.com/Title/ASIN=630507559X?0000013
15. Promenade of ostriches, Paris Botanical gardens
http://akas.imdb.com/title/tt0257017/
16. Childish quarrel
http://akas.imdb.com/title/tt0204861/
17. Lion, London zoologican garden
http://akas.imdb.com/title/tt0256884/
18. Demolition of a wall
http://akas.imdb.com/title/tt0000070/
19. Transformation by hats, comic view
http://akas.imdb.com/title/tt0221874/
20. Carmaux: Drawing out the coke
http://akas.imdb.com/title/tt0256672/
21. Poultry-yard
http://akas.imdb.com/title/tt0257008/
22. Snowball fight
23. Card party
http://amazon.imdb.com/Title/ASIN=630507559X?0000026
24. New York: Broadway at Union Square
25. A TRIP TO THE MOON (1902)
http://amazon.imdb.com/Title/ASIN=630507559X?0000417
ACTUALITIES 1897-1910
26. President McKinley at home (1897)
27. Pack train at Chilkoot pass (1898)
28. Sky screapers of New York City from North River (1903)
29. San Francisco: Aftermath of an earthquake (1906)
30. The dog and his various merits (1908)
31. Aeroplane flights and wrecks (Piloted by M. Cody) (1910)
32. THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY (1903)
http://amazon.imdb.com/Title/ASIN=630507559X?0000487
33. THE WHOLE DAM FAMILY AND THE DAM DOG (1905)
http://akas.imdb.com/title/tt0235045/
34. THE GOLDEN BEETLE (1907)
http://akas.imdb.com/title/tt0171720/
second disc:
TotalSize: 700 MB (or 717,726 KB or 734,951,424 bytes)
Interleaving: vbrmp3
Bitrate: 1537 k(=1000)Bits/s
FPS: 29.970
Duration: 00:58:59 (106,073 fr)
Quality: 0.223 bits/(pixel*frame).
Resolution: 576x400 (1.44:1) [=36:25]
Audio: 0x0055(MP3) ID'd as MPEG-1 Layer 3
Bit rate: 115 kb/s (57/ch, stereo) VBR
1. The policeman's little run (1907)
http://akas.imdb.com/title/tt0234486/
2. Troubles of a grasswidower (1908)
http://akas.imdb.com/title/tt0267049/
3. Nero Or the fall of Rome (1909)
http://akas.imdb.com/title/tt0188941/
4. Winsor McCay and his moving comics (1911)
http://amazon.imdb.com/Title/ASIN=630507559X?0001737
5. The girl and her trust (1912)
http://amazon.imdb.com/Title/ASIN=630507559X?0002208
6. Bangville police (1913)
http://amazon.imdb.com/Title/ASIN=630507559X?0002659
y ZoRpIeNtO dijo: "zorpientitos dorados del bosque" 
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