Silent Film Sources
VHS, Laserdisc and DVD Releases During 1998
February 10, 1998 - Kino
On Video (VHS)
Body and Soul with Paul Robeson (1924)
February 11, 1998 - Image
Entertainment (laserdisc)
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Sunrise (with new score by Timothy Brock, and original score compiled
by Hugo Riesenfeld, also 10 minutes of out-takes) ($50)
February 18, 1998 - Image
Entertainment (laserdisc)
The Garbo Silents Collection (The Torrent, Love, Wild Orchids
and the surviving 10-minute segment of The Divine Woman)
March 4 - Image
Entertainment (laserdisc)
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The Lumiere Brothers' First Films
April 8 - Image
Entertainment (DVD)
April 15 - Image
Entertainment (laserdisc)
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Classics of Early Soviet Cinema II
(an extended version of Storm Over Asia; Deserter; By The Law; Turksib;
Salt for Svanetia; Arsenal and the reconstructed lost Eisenstein film
Bezhin Meadow.)
April 29 - Image
Entertainment (laserdisc)
May 13 - Image
Entertainment (DVD)
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The Cat and the Canary ($30)
May 19 - Kino
On Video (VHS)
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The Slapstick Encyclopedia (Series One) ($25 each, or $90 for all
four)
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Volume One: In The Beginning: Film Comedy Pioneers
One Too Many (1916), The Wrong Mr. Fox (1917), Mr.
Flip (1909), Alkali Ike's Auto (1911), Mabel's Dramatic Career
(1913), Fox-Trot Finesse (1915), A Cure for Pokeritis
(1912), Be My Wife (1921), A Natural Born Gambler (1916)
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Volume Two: Keystone Tonight! The Mack Sennett Comedies
Saturday Afternoon (1926), Super-Hooper-Dyne-Lizzies (1925),
Wandering Willies (1926), A Muddy Romance (1913), A Movie
Star (1916), Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life (1913)
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Volume Three: Funny Girls
Mighty Like a Moose (1926), The Detectress (1919), One
Wet Night (1924), Know Thy Wife (1918), Rowdy Ann (1919),
Hearts and Flowers (1919)
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Volume Four: Keaton, Arbuckle and Al St. John
The Rounders (1914), Fatty and Mabel Adrift (1916), Oh,
Doctor! (1917), The Garage (1920), The Boat (1921), The
Iron Mule (1925)
May 27 - Image
Entertainment (laserdisc)
June 10 - Image
Entertainment (laserdisc)
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Cobra (1925) with Rudolph Valentino ($40)
June 16 - Kino
On Video (VHS) ($25)
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They Had Faces Then
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The Show Off (1926) with Louise Brooks
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The Toll Gate (1920) with William S. Hart
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Cobra (1925) with Rudolph Valentino
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Tol'able David (1921) with Richard Barthelmess
June 24 - Image
Entertainment (laserdisc)
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The Slapstick Encyclopedia Series One ($125)
July 21, 1998 - Kino
On Video (VHS)
The Slapstick Encyclopedia (Series Two) ($25 each, or $90 for
all four)
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Volume Five - Hal Roach: The Lot of Fun
Laurel and Hardy, Our Gang, Charley Chase, Snub Pollard, Lloyd, and
Will Rogers.
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Volume Six - Chaplin & Company: The Music Hall Tradition
Laurel, Lupino Lane, Billie Ritchie, Hardy, and two Chaplin films with
off-camera clowning.
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Volume Seven - The Race is On: Great Chase Comedies
Danger Ahead, Water Wagons, Chasing Choo Choos, Teddy at the Throttle,
and more.
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Volume Eight - Tons of Fun: The Anarchic Fringe
Ben Turpin, Larry Semon, Billy Bletcher, Charley Bowers, Ruth Hiatt
and 'A Ton of Fun'
August 19 - Image
Entertainment (laserdisc)
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The Show Off (1926) with Louise Brooks
August 25 - Kino
On Video (VHS)
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Nanook of the North (1922) with new score by Timothy Brock ($25)
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Before the Nickelodeon (1982) documentary on Edwin S. Porter, including
16 complete short films ($50)
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Que Viva Mexico (1931/1979) ($25)
October 6, 1998 - Kino
On Video (VHS)
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The Silent Scream ($25 each)
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The Penalty with Lon Chaney (1920)
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The Bells with Lionel Barrymore (1926)
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The Cat and the Canary (1927)
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The Silent Scream (1998) documentary with scenes from 50 silent
thrillers
August 26 - Image
Entertainment (laserdisc) ($70)
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The Lon Chaney Collection (including He Who Gets Slapped,
The Unholy Three
and The Unknown)
September 30 - Image
Entertainment (DVD)
Battleship Potemkin
October 28 - Water
Bearer Films (VHS) ($100)
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Les Vampires (1915) Orchestral score by Robert Israel
October 28 - Image
Entertainment (DVD)
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Man With a Movie Camera ($25)
November 3 - Image
Entertainment (laserdisc) ($125)
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Les Vampires (1915) Orchestral score by Robert Israel
November 17 - Image
Entertainment (DVD)
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The Birth of a Nation ($30)
November 24 - Image
Entertainment (laserdisc) ($125)
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Slapstick Encyclopedia Series 2 (laserdisc)
December 8 - Image
Entertainment (DVD)
December 15 - Image
Entertainment (DVD)
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Laurel & Hardy Collection Vol. 1 ($30) (DVD)
Includes Big Business, Do Detectives Think?, Call of
the Cuckoo, The Finishing Touch, On the Front Page and Hustling
for Health.
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Laurel & Hardy Collection Vol. 2 ($30) (DVD)
Includes Double Whoopee, Early to Bed, Angora
Love, Sugar Daddies, Roughest Africa and Oranges and Lemons.
December 29, 1998 - Image
Entertainment (DVD)
October (DVD)
Orphans of the Storm (DVD)
Previous releases on VHS,
Laserdisc and DVD for 1997
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