Saved from the flames: 54 rare and restored films 1896-1944

Disc 1. Exiting the factory / Lumiere (France, 1896, 1:13)

Arrival of a train / Gaumont ( France, 1897, 0:48)

Card party / Lumiere (France, 1896, hand-colored, 1:26)

Kobelkoff (France, 1900, 1:24)

Danse Serpentine (In a lion's cage) (France, 1900, hand-colored, 2:08)

Cyrano de Bergerac / Phono-Cinema-Theatre (France, 1900, hand-colored, sound on cylinder, 1:55)

La

Marseillaise / Georges Mendel (France, 1907, sound on disc, 2:41)

Excelsior! Prince of Magicians / Georges Méliès (France, 1901, 2:06)

The

Talion punishment / Gaston Velle, Pathé frères (France, 1906, stencil-colored, 4:13)

Kiriki, Japanese acrobats / Segundo de Chomon, Pathé frères (France, 1907, hand-colored, 2:38)

An

excursion to the moon / Segundo de Chomon, Pathé frères (France, 1908, stencil-colored, 6:47)

The

Automatic Moving Company / Romeo Bosetti, Pathé frères (France, 1911, 4:23)

Seine flood / Eclipse Company ; music, Eric Beheim (France, 1910, 4:16)

Over the top (A battle with the elements) / Earle Films ; music, Eric Beheim (USA, 1915, 11:22)

A

visit to Los Angeles / Ford Motor Company ; music, Frederick Hodges (USA, 1916, 10:25)

Montmartre's kids / music, Eric le Guen (France, 1916, 3:51)

Dirigible Los Angeles / Blackhawk Films ; music, Eric Beheim (USA, 1924, 19:24)

In the land of giants and pygmies / Aurelio Rossi ; music, Eric le Guen (Belgian Congo, 1925, stencil-colored, English intertitles, 8:33)

Technicolor fashion parade / Fashion Features, Inc ; music, Frederick Hodges (USA, 1927, 5:53)

Charles A. Lindbergh, hero of the air / Fox-Case Movietone (USA, 1927, 11:50)

Fireman of the Follies-Bergère / with Josephine Baker ; music, Eric le Guen (France, 1928, 7:38)

Meet me down at Coney Isle / Fox Magic Carpet of Movietone (USA, 1932, 8:13).

Disc 2. The dancing pig / Pathé frères ; music, Frederick Hodges (France, 1907, 2:24)

Monkey race / Italia Film ; music, Eric Beheim (Italy, 1909, 4:03)

I fetch the bread / Pathé frères ; music, Eric Beheim (France, 1907, 5:10)

Artheme swallows his clarinet / Eclipse Company ; music, Eric Beheim (France, 1912, 3:54)

Kid's auto race / Keystone Film Co. ; producer, Mack Sennett ; with Charlie Chaplin ; music, Eric Beheim (USA, 1914, 6:20)

The

pest / Amalgamated Productions ; producer/director, G. M. Anderson ; with Stan Laurel ; music, Frederick Hodges (USA, 1922, 22:26)

Lizzies of the field / producer, Mack Sennett ; director, Del Lord ; music, Eric Beheim (USA, 1924, 14:04)

Fantasmagorie / Gaumont Company ; by Emile Cohl ; music, Frederick Hodges (France, 1908, 1:30)

Cartoon factory / Fleischer Studios ; by Max Fleischer (USA, 1924, 7:53)

In the orient : Tony Sarg's Marionettes / Columbia Pictures ; by Tony Sarg (USA, 1929, 9:52)

Ain't she sweet / Fleischer Studios ; with Lillian Roth (USA, 1932, 7:11)

Balloonland (aka The Pincushion man) / Ub Iwerks (USA, Cinecolor, 1935, 6:41)

Play safe / Fleischer Studios (USA, Technicolor, 1936, 7:05)

Radi-Ators / Columbia Pictures ; Utica Jubilee Singers (USA, 1929, 9:18)

Black and tan / RCA ; director, Dudley Murphy with Fernand Léger ; Duke Ellington and the Cotton Club Orchestra (USA, 1929, 18:10)

Louis Armstrong in Copenhagen (Denmark, 1934, 9:05)

Jazz hot / Django Reinhardt, Stéphane Grapelli and the Quintet of the Hot Club of France (France, 1939, 6:20).

Disc 3. California election news #2 / produced by MGM (USA, 1934, 6:52)

3 advertisements for theaters produced in France.

Week-end / with Fernandel ; produced by Virginia Week-End Tobacco (France, 1938, 2:17)

Cette nuit-la / with Jacques Tati ; produced by Levitan and Co. (France, 1935, 1:31)

Clo-cloche / with Michel Simon ; produced by Caporal (France, 1935, 2:08)

MGM promo reel / MGM ; with Laurel & Hardy (France, 1936, 8:30)

Master hands / Chevrolet Motor Co. ; producer, Jam Handy Organization (USA, 1936, 31:48)

Philips Broadcast of 1938 / Philips Radio A/S ; animator, George Pal (Holland, 1938, 4:57) ; Three "Soundies" made for coin-operated jukebox devices: Yankee Doodler / Soundies Dist. Corp (USA, 1942, 2:54) ; Rosie the riveter / Soundies Dist. Corp. (USA, 1943, 2:38)

Dear Arabella / Soundies Dist. Corp. (USA, 1942, 2:38)

Hell bent for election / UPA Pictures ; animation, Chuck Jones (USA, 1944, 12:30)

For his son / Biograph Co. ; producer/director, D.W. Griffith ; with Charles Hill Mailes, Blanche Sweet (USA, 1912, 14:52)

Suspense / Rex Films ; producers/directors, Lois Weber & Phillips Smalley ; with Lois Weber, Val Paul (USA, 1913, 10:10)

The

heart of an Indian (aka. The Indian massacre) / Bison Motion Pictures ; director, Thomas Ince ; with Francis Ford, Ann Little (USA, 1912, 32:20)

Stolen kisses [compilation] (ca. 1920s, 3:30).