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Retour de Flamme
Volume 5
(1900-1950)
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Contents: Cyrano de Bergerac (1900), Excursion dans la lune (1908), Arthème avale sa clarinette (1912), The Cook (1918), By Indian Post (1919), La raid en avion (1924), La Samaritaine (1930), Amour et publicité (1932), Ain’t She Sweet (1933), All This and Rabbit Stew (1941) and [Publi-Ciné] (1935-1950).
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 Lobster Films
2006 DVD edition
Retour de Flamme, Volume 5 (1900-1950), black & white and color, 150 minutes total, BBFC Classification E (England).
including Cyrano de Bergerac (1900), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Excursion dans la lune (1908), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Arthème avale sa clarinette (1912), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, The Cook (1918), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, By Indian Post (1919), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, La raid en avion (1924), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, La Samaritaine (1930), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Amour et publicité (1932), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Ain’t She Sweet (1933), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, All This and Rabbit Stew (1941), color, ? minutes, not rated, and [Publi-Ciné] (1935-1950), black & white, ? minutes, not rated bvnh.
Lobster Films, EDV 1419, UPC 3-760130-460101.
One single-sided, dual-layered, Region 0 PAL DVD disc; 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 576 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; French and English language intertitles, English and French language subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; €25,95 / £24.99.
Release date: 4 December 2006
Country of origin: France
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This PAL DVD collection, spanning the silent era and beyond the golden era of cinema, culls nitrate films from the extensive collection of Lobster Films, Paris.
The films are accompanied by music scores performed by Éric Le Guen and others.
For our comparative reviews of some of the individual films in this collection, see our Artheme Swallows His Clarinet on home video page.
North American collectors will need a region-free PAL DVD player capable of outputting an NTSC-compatible signal to view this edition.
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This Region 0 PAL DVD edition has been discontinued
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