Screen1900 DVD Edition: Crazy Cinématographe 1896-1916

Edition Filmmuseum 18

Release date: 21 June 2007

1st edition June 2007, 2nd edition September 2007, 3rd edition August 2008, 4th edition January 2012

2-disc DVD with 50 short films which were shown by travelling cinemas in Europe between 1896 and 1916: dogs playing the piano, contortionists defying the pain limits, and “moving” local news “in life size movement” – early fairground cinema was a great attraction and sensation. Besides the variety theatres, it were particularly the travelling cinemas which contributed to the rapid establishment of the cinematograph as a popular medium. With the tongue-in-cheek title, similar to a barker's yell, Crazy Cinématographe, this double DVD reveals the buried tradition of fairground cinema. Hand-coloured serpentine dances, erotic piquancies and local street scenes evoke the colourful diversity of early short film programmes.

DVD 1 European Cinema of Attractions 1896-1916 shows, in a varied sequence, rarities from the treasure chests of the European film archives ranging from Danish anarchistic slapstick to Scottish X-ray films and a Belgian film showing a hunt.

DVD 2 Local Films from the Greater Region 1902-1914 presents a forgotten film genre which was, in its day, a real crowd puller in travelling cinema. This DVD features films, including from the Marzen family, from Luxembourg, Trier and Saarbrücken which depict the local people who would then pay to see themselves in ‘living portraits’ on the big screen.

DVD features (2-disc DVD)

DVD 1:

  • Will Evans, the Musical Eccentric GB 1899, 1'
  • Anarkistens Svigermoder DK 1906, 4'
  • Dansa Serpentina FR 1900, 1'
  • Le Roi des Dollars FR 1905, 2'
  • L'Homme mystérieuxFR 1910, 6'
  • Le Réveil de Chrysis FR ca. 1897-99, 1'
  • Premier Prix de violoncelle FR 1907, 3'
  • Agoust Family of Jugglers GB 1898, 1'
  • Les Tulipes FR 1907, 4'
  • Dr. Macintyre's X-Ray Film GB 1896, 1'
  • Dr. Macintyre's X-Ray Cabinet GB ca. 1909, 1'
  • Bain des dames de la cour FR 1904, 1'
  • 13 The Adventures of "Wee Rob Roy" No. 1 GB 1916, 4'
  • Les Kiriki, acrobates japonais FR 1907, 3'
  • The ? Motorist GB 1906, 3'
  • Photographie d'une étoile FR 1906, 2'
  • Les Chiens savants FR 1907, 5'
  • Horrible Fin d'un concierge FR 1903, 2'
  • A Peace of Coal GB ca. 1910, 3'
  • Miss Harry's femme serpent FR 1911, 3'
  • Bain de pieds à la moutarde FR 1902, 2'
  • Scène pornographique FR 1909, 2'
  • L'Amblystôme FR 1913, 7'
  • Le Barbier fin de siècle FR 1896, 1'
  • Lèvres collées FR 1906, 2'
  • The Tale of the Ark GB 1909, 6'
  • Fâcheuse Méprise FR 1905, 1'
  • Sculpteur moderne FR 1908, 6'
  • Acrobati comici IT 1910, 5'
  • Fox terriers et rats FR 1902, 1'
  • Saïda a enlevé Manneken-Pis BE 1913, 7'
  • Au revoir et merci FR 1906, 2'
  • Music accompaniment by Günter A. Buchwald
  • 8 page booklet with a text by Martin Loiperdinger

 

DVD 2: Local Films from the Greater Region (Luxemburg, Trier, Saarbrücken)

  • Das malerische Luxemburg 1912, 6'
  • Übertragung der Gebeine des Hl. Willibrord 1906, 2'
  • Echternacher Springprozession 1906, 5'
  • Schlussprozession Octave 1911, 3'
  • Kavalkade 1905, 2'
  • Blumenkorso 1906 1906, 3'
  • Trauerzug für Großherzog Wilhelm IV 1912, 5'
  • Eidesleistung der Großherzogin Marie-Adelheid 1912, 5'
  • Marie-Adelheid im Kino 1912, 1'
  • Ein Besuch in der Champagnerfabrik Mercier 1907, 9'
  • Autofahrt durch Trier ca. 1903, 2'
  • Domausgang zu Trier 1904, 2'
  • Domausgang am Ostersonntag 1909, 3'
  • Fronleichnamsprozession in Trier 1909, 3'
  • Bilder aus Trier 1902-1909, 5'
  • Leben und Treiben auf dem Viehmarkt 1909, 2'
  • Blumenkorso 1914 1914, 3'
  • Straßenszenen in Saarbrücken ca. 1908, 5'
  • Music accompaniment by John Sweeney
  • Audio commentaries in German, English, French, Luxemburgish and Trier dialect

DVD edited by: Cinémathèque de la Ville de Luxembourg; Media Studies, University of Trier
DVD authoring: Ralph Schermbach
DVD supervision: Claude Bertemes, Brigitte Braun, Uli Jung, Martin Loiperdinger

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