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Alice Guy Blaché
(1906-2019)
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Contents: La crinoline (1906), Cupid and the Comet (1911), Playing Trumps (1912), Canned Harmony (1912), The Hater of Women (1912), Burstup Homes’s Mystery Case [Burstup Homes’ Murder Case] (1913) and A House Divided (1913).
This collection of films directed by Katja Raganelli includes documentary-dramas on two women filmmakers: Alice Guy Blaché and Margery Wilson. The edition includes seven films by Guy Blaché produced from 1906 in France through 1913 in the USA.
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 Edition Filmmuseum
2021 DVD edition
Alice Guy Blaché Hommage an die erste Filmemacherin der Welt (1997), black & white, 60 minutes, not rated, including La crinoline (1906), black & white, 2 minutes, not rated, Cupid and the Comet (1911), black & white, 13 minutes, not rated, Playing Trumps (1912), black & white, 15 minutes, not rated, Canned Harmony (1912), black & white, 16 minutes, not rated, The Hater of Women (1912), black & white, 15 minutes, not rated, Burstup Homes’s Mystery Case [Burstup Homes’ Murder Case] (1913), black & white, 14 minutes, not rated, and A House Divided (1913), black & white, 15 minutes, not rated, with Margery Wilson Vom Stummfilmstar Hollywoods zur Filmregisseurin (1998), black & white, 44 minutes, not rated, and Die Restaurierung von Cupid and the Comet (2019), black & white, 7 minutes, not rated.
Edition Filmmuseum, 119, UPC/EAN 9-783958-601192.
Two single-sided, dual-layered, Region 0 PAL DVD discs; 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 mono sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; German and English language intertitles, optional German and English language subtitles; chapter stops; 20-page insert booklet; standard two-disc DVD keepcase; €29,95.
Release date: June 2021.
Country of origin: Germany
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