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Early
Russian Cinema
(1908-1919)
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Contents: Volume One: Beginnings and Volume Two: Folklore and Legend; Volume Three: Starewiczs Fantasies; Volume Four: Provincial Variations; Volume Five: Chardynin' Pushkin; Volume Six: Class Distinctions; Volume Seven: Evgenii Bauer; Volume Eight: Iakov Protazanov; Volume Nine: High Society; Volume Ten: The End of an Era.
This complete nine-disc set of Russian and Soviet silent era films was originally produced by British Film Institute for release on VHS videotape, and in America was released by Milestone Film & Video. This DVD-R set completely encompasses the original 10-tape videotape set.
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 The Milestone Cinematheque
2009 DVD edition
Early Russian Cinema [volumes 1-10] (1908-1919), black & white, 710 minutes total (approximate), not rated, including Drama in a Gypsy Camp Near Moscow (1908), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, A Fish Factory in Astrakhan’ (1908), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, A Sixteenth Century Russian Wedding (1908), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Sten’ka Razin (1908), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Princess Tarakanova (1910), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Rusalka (1910), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Romance With a Double-Bass (1911), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Bratya Razboiniki [The Brigand Brothers] (1912), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, [volume three contents to come], The Wedding Day (1912), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Merchant Bashkirov’s Daughter (1913), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, The Queen of Spades (1910), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, The House in Kolomna (1913), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, The Peasants’ Lot (1912), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Silent Witnesses (1914), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, A Child of the Big City (1914), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Daydreams (1915), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, The 1002nd Ruse (1915), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Ukhad velikogo startsa [The Departure of a Great Old Man] (1912), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Pikovaya Dama [The Queen of Spades] (1916), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Autosha Ruined by a Corset (1916), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, A Life For a Life (1916), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, The Funeral of Vera Kholodnaya (1919), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Revolutsioner [The Revolutionary] (1917), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, For Luck (1917), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, and Behind the Screen (1917), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.
Milestone Film & Video, no catalog number (as set), no UPC number (as set).
Nine single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD-R discs; 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan image encoded in SDR MPEG-2 format at ? Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to ? fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; Russian language intertitles, permanent English language subtitles; chapter stops; nine slimline DVD keepcases; $200.00 (complete set).
Release date: 1 February 2009
Country of origin: USA •
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