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Griffith masterworks. Biograph shorts [videorecording] /

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: K268 | Kino on VideoPublication details: New York : Kino on Video, 2002.Edition: Special editionDescription: 2 videodiscs (approx. 362 min.) : sd., b&w with col. sequences ; 4 3/4 inOther title:
  • Biograph shorts [videorecording]
  • Title on cover: D.W. Griffith's Biograph shorts [videorecording]
Genre/Form:
Contents:
Disc one: Those awful hats, 1909 (3 min.) -- The sealed room, 1909 (11 min.) -- Corner in wheat, 1909 (14 min.) -- The unchanging sea, 1910. (13 min.) -- His trust, 1911 (14 min.) -- The New York hat, 1912 (16 min.) -- An unseen enemy, 1912 (15 min.) -- The mothering heart, 1913 (23 min.) -- Bonus shorts: The adventures of Dollie, 1908 (12 min.) -- The usurer, 1910 (18 min.) -- Enoch Arden, 1911 (33 min.) -- The miser's heart, 1911 (16 min.).
Disc two: The musketeers of Pig Alley, 1912 (18 min.) -- The burglar's dilemma, 1912 (15 min.) -- The sunbeam, 1912 (15 min.) -- The painted lady, 1912 (12 min.) -- One is business, the other crime, 1912 (15 min.) -- Death's marathon, 1913 (15 min.) -- The battle at Elderbush Gulch, 1913 (29 min.) -- Bonus shorts: The last drop of water, 1911 (13 min.) -- Friends, 1912 (13 min.) -- The lesser evil, 1912 (13 min.) -- The massacre, 1912 (30 min.).
Production credits:
  • New musical settings compiled and arranged by Robert Israel ; performed by the Biograph Quartet; supplemental shorts produced by Bret Wood; supplemental music by Jon C. Mirsalis.
Summary: The two-disc set compiles one and two reel films directed by Griffith during his six-year position with the American Biograph Company, 1908-1913. Having made over 450 shorts before leaving Biograph to make feature films, these works showcase Griffith's early steps towards developing a cinematic language for narrative cinema.
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Video Recording Carleton University, AVRC SP456 - Collections Room DVD 0618 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 16050095248

"Special contents of this edition c1992 Film Preservation Associates, and c2002 Kino International Corp."

Videodisc release of short films made from 1909 through 1913.

On cover: twenty-three complete films. Special edition. Collection of early works by Cinema's most influential pioneer.

Some sequences color-tinted.

Disc one: Those awful hats, 1909 (3 min.) -- The sealed room, 1909 (11 min.) -- Corner in wheat, 1909 (14 min.) -- The unchanging sea, 1910. (13 min.) -- His trust, 1911 (14 min.) -- The New York hat, 1912 (16 min.) -- An unseen enemy, 1912 (15 min.) -- The mothering heart, 1913 (23 min.) -- Bonus shorts: The adventures of Dollie, 1908 (12 min.) -- The usurer, 1910 (18 min.) -- Enoch Arden, 1911 (33 min.) -- The miser's heart, 1911 (16 min.).

Disc two: The musketeers of Pig Alley, 1912 (18 min.) -- The burglar's dilemma, 1912 (15 min.) -- The sunbeam, 1912 (15 min.) -- The painted lady, 1912 (12 min.) -- One is business, the other crime, 1912 (15 min.) -- Death's marathon, 1913 (15 min.) -- The battle at Elderbush Gulch, 1913 (29 min.) -- Bonus shorts: The last drop of water, 1911 (13 min.) -- Friends, 1912 (13 min.) -- The lesser evil, 1912 (13 min.) -- The massacre, 1912 (30 min.).

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