Reel 1300B

Lumiere, France 1:13

Lumiere, France 1:26

France 1:24

France 2:08

Phono-Chimda-Théâtre 1:55

Georges Méliès, France 2:41

series: PROGRAM ONE - MAGICAL MOVIES

Georges Méliès, France 2:08

Pathé Frères, France 4:13

Pathé Frères, France 2:38

Pathé Frères, France 6:47

Pathé Frères, France 4:23

series: PROGRAM ONE - SEEING THE WORLD

Eclipse, France 4:16

Earle Films, USA 11:22

Ford Motor Company, USA 10:25

France 3:51

Columbia, USA, 9:52. In the Orient (1929) preserves a performance by Tony Sarg (1880-1942), father of modern puppetry in North America. In the 1920s and 1930s, Sarg's troupe toured with such productions as "Treasure Island" and "Alice in Wonderland;" more than three million people saw his shows at the Chicago World's Fair in 1933. Sarg was also an illustrator, made silhouette films, and designed Macy's animated Christmas window displays. This film was preserved from a 35mm silent print with a separate 16-inch Vitaphone disc for the sound.

Fleischer Studios, USA, 7:11. 19th century song pluggers in vaudeville theaters and in the streets invited audiences to join in the chorus; this tradition of participation appeared in movie theaters by the mid-teens. When sound arrived, Fleischer Studios' delightful "Screen Songs" added witty animated prologues and celebrity singers to prepare the audience for the ball that bounced through the lyrics.

Cinecolor, USA, 6:41. Ub Iwerks' bizarre Balloonland (1935) has appeared in many video collections, often under its 16mm home-movie title The Pincushion Man. In 1974, the Blackhawk Films Collection acquired the elements and copyright of Iwerks' 75 "Flip The Frog," "Comicolor" and "Willie Whopper" cartoons, produced between 1930 and 1936. Blackhawk holds the original nitrate red/blue Cinecolor negatives, and this astonishing film is presented here with restored picture and sound prepared in collaboration with the UCLA Film and Television Archive.

Fleischer Studios (Technicolor), USA, 7:05. Play Safe, a Fleischer Studios "Color Classic", is one of the first cartoons in three-color Technicolor made after Disney's exclusive license on the process expired early in 1936. A few shots innovate animation filmed vertically with characters moving among three-dimensional sets. The pioneering Fleischers also made Ko-Ko, Betty Boop, Popeye and Superman cartoons. This edition is mastered from an original 35mm dye transfer print.

Lumière, France 1896, 1:13. Music for Exiting the Factory and Card Party by Neil Brand.

Gaumont, France, 1897, 0:48. Music for Arrival of a Train by Eric le Guen.

(hand-colored) - Lumière, France, 1896, 1:26. Lobster Films purchased the original Lumiere-perforation negatives of Workers Leaving the Peugeot Factory and fifty other titles at an auction in Lyon for about fifty U.S. dollars.

France, 1900, 1:24. Filmed about 1900, here is the famous man-torso, Nikolai Kobolkoff, born in Siberia (1851) and a performer beginning in 1874.

(in a Lion's Cage) (hand-colored) - France, 1900, 2:08. The famous serpentine dance was originated by modern dance pioneer Loie Fuller and soon widely imitated in both American and European vaudeville.

(hand-colored, sound on cylinder) - Phono-Cinéma-Théâtre, 1900, 1:55. Probably the first color and sound film, the duel scene from Cyrano de Bergerac, was filmed by Clement-Maurice.

(sound on disc) - Georges Mendel, France, 1907, 2:41. Here, M. Noté of the Paris Opera sings La Marseillaise in 1908.

Georges Méliès, France, 1901, 2:06. French stage magician and illusionist Georges Méliès began filmmaking in 1896.

(stencil-colored) Pathé Frères, France, 1906, 4:35. The Fallen Punishment was made in 1906 by Gaston Velle, a specialist in fantasy films.

(hand-colored) Pathé Frères, France, 1907, 2:38. Kiriki, Japanese Acrobats was made for Pathé Frères in 1907 by Segundo de Chomon.

(stencil-colored) Pathé Frères, France, 1908, 6:47. Georges Méliès' best-known film, A Trip to the Moon, is inspired by Jules Verne's "From the Earth to the Moon" and H. G. Wells' "First Men on the Moon."

Pathé Frères, France, 1911, 4:23. Historian Donald Crafton credits this 1911 Pathé Frères film The Automatic Moving Company to Romeo Bosetti.

Eclipse, France, 1910, 4:16. These long-forgotten images of The Seine Flood, which devastated Paris in late January, 1910, were miraculously found only recently.

(A Battle With the Elements) - Earle Films, USA, 1915, 11:22. In 1915, the Reno Commercial Club offered a trophy for the first car to travel a new route from San Francisco to Reno.

Ford Motor Company, USA, 1916, 10:25. To popularize the idea of automobile travel, Ford Motor Company produced Ford Educational Weekly.

France, 1916, 3:51. Montmartre's Kids, also from 1916, was filmed on the Parisian hill.

(stencil-colored)

series: PROGRAM TWO - LAUGHING LIKE WE USED TO

series: PROGRAM TWO - DRAWINGS AND MODELS

(stencil-colored)

series: PROGRAM TWO - LAUGHING LIKE WE USED TO

series: PROGRAM TWO - LAUGHING LIKE WE USED TO

series: PROGRAM TWO - LAUGHING LIKE WE USED TO

series: PROGRAM TWO - LAUGHING LIKE WE USED TO

series: PROGRAM TWO - LAUGHING LIKE WE USED TO

series: PROGRAM TWO - LAUGHING LIKE WE USED TO

series: PROGRAM TWO - LAUGHING LIKE WE USED TO

series: PROGRAM TWO - DRAWINGS AND MODELS

series: PROGRAM TWO - DRAWINGS AND MODELS

Lumière, France 1896, 1:13. Music for Exiting the Factory and Card Party by Neil Brand.

Gaumont, France, 1897, 0:48. Music for Arrival of a Train by Eric le Guen.

(hand-colored) - Lumière, France, 1896, 1:26.

France, 1900, 1:24.

(hand-colored) - France, 1900, 2:08. Music by Eric le Guen.

(hand-colored, sound on cylinder) - Phono-Cinéma-Théâtre, 1900, 1:55.

(stencil-colored) Pathé Frères, France, 1908, 4:13. Music by Eric le Guen.

(hand-colored) Pathé Frères, France, 1907, 2:38. Music by Eric le Guen.

(stencil-colored) Pathé Frères, France, 1908, 6:47. Music by Frederick Hodges.

Pathé Frères, France, 1911, 4:23.

Eclipse, France, 1910, 4:16. Music by Eric Beheim.

Earle Films, USA, 1915, 11:22. Music by Eric Beheim.

Ford Motor Company, USA, 1916, 10:25. Music by Frederick Hodges.

France, 1916, 3:51. Music by Eric le Guen.

Exiting the Factory - Lumière, France 1896, 1:13; Arrival of a Train - Gaumont, France, 1897, 0:48; Card Party (hand-colored) - Lumière, France, 1896, 1:26

Columbia, USA, 9:52. In the Orient (1929) preserves a performance by Tony Sarg (1880-1942), father of modern puppetry in North America. In the 1920s and 1930s, Sarg's troupe toured with such productions as "Treasure Island" and "Alice in Wonderland;" more than three million people saw his shows at the Chicago World's Fair in 1933. Sarg was also an illustrator, made silhouette films, and designed Macy's animated Christmas window displays. This film was preserved from a 35mm silent print with a separate 16-inch Vitaphone disc for the sound.

Fleischer Studios, USA, 7:11. 19th century song pluggers in vaudeville theaters and in the streets invited audiences to join in the chorus; this tradition of participation appeared in movie theaters by the mid-teens. When sound arrived, Fleischer Studios' delightful "Screen Songs" added witty animated prologues and celebrity singers to prepare the audience for the ball that bounced through the lyrics.

Ub Iwerks (Cinecolor), USA, 6:41. Ub Iwerks' bizarre Balloonland (1935) has appeared in many video collections, often under its 16mm home-movie title The Pincushion Man. In 1974, the Blackhawk Films Collection acquired the elements and copyright of Iwerk's 75 "Flip The Frog," "Comicolor" and "Willie Whopper" cartoons, produced between 1930 and 1936. Blackhawk holds the original nitrate red/blue Cinecolor negatives, and this astonishing film is presented here with restored picture and sound prepared in collaboration with the UCLA Film and Television Archive.

Fleischer Studios (Technicolor), USA, 7:05. Play Safe, a Fleischer Studios "Color Classic", is one of the first cartoons in three-color Technicolor made after Disney's exclusive license on the process expired early in 1936. A few shots innovate animation filmed vertically with characters moving among three-dimensional sets. The pioneering Fleischers also made Ko-Ko, Betty Boop, Popeye and Superman cartoons. This edition is mastered from an original 35mm dye transfer print.

Columbia, USA, 9:18. In the 1920s, radio brought African-American music into the mainstream; early sound films presented black vaudevillians, bands, and singers to movie audiences. Radi-Ators presents the Utica Jubilee Singers, students at Utica (Mississippi) Normal and Industrial Institute (now Hinds Community College). Their choral arrangements (known as "Jubilees") were published as sheet music and recorded on Victor records; the Singers also toured Europe in 1927-28 before making this 1929 film, restored in 1992 from a 35mm silent positive and its separate 16-inch Vitaphone sound disc.

RCA, USA, 18:10. RCA produced Black and Tan to showcase its Photophone sound system. Film Daily said upon the film's release in November, 1929: "Duke Ellington and his all-colored orchestra put over the hot jazz - and how." Director Dudley Murphy collaborated with Fernand Léger on Ballet Mecanique in 1924 and seasons this film with avant-garde sequences while also telling a story. The late Karl Emil Knudsen, well-known Danish producer of jazz records, purchased the original negative from Dudley Murphy and supplied the print from which this transfer was made.

Denmark, 9:05. After a decade performing in and recording with the top hot jazz bands of New Orleans, Chicago and New York, legendary trumpeter and vocalist Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong moved to Los Angeles in 1930, and then toured Europe. Armstrong's work in this period remains a foundation stone in all of jazz history. These three numbers were filmed in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1934.

France, 6:20. Jazz Hot is a major discovery - a unique sync sound film record of Django Reinhardt, greatest of jazz guitarists, here with violinist Stéphane Grappelli and the Quintet of the Hot Club of France. It's undocumented, but J'attendrais (I Will Wait), published in 1937, was filmed perhaps to promote the Quintet's tour of Britain in the summer of 1939. Discovered thanks to Fabien Ruiz, a