Retour de Flamme (Vol 6) - The Fabulous Days of the Early Cinema

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The Retour de Flamme collection got its name from a daunting challenge - to save from the flames early films shot on inflammable nitrate stock, and to make these rare treasures available to the biggest possible audience. Volume 6 of this eclectic series contains Down in the Deep: Le Pêcheur de perles (Zecca, 1907); Suspense (Lois Weber, 1913); Balloonland (Iwerks, 1935); Naughty Boys (1905); Bip... Bip... Bip... Ici Paris (1950); Post No Bills (1923); Making an American Citizen (Alice Guy-Blaché, 1912); Makin 'Em Move (1931); Giraffe Hunting in Uganda (1910); The Pest (1922); Gregor and his Gregorians (1930); French Commercials (1935-1955) and the final part of the serial adventure, Flight Around the World (1924).

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Review by Graeme Hobbs on 30th October 2007

With titles such as The Pearl Fisherman (1907), Giraffe Hunting in Uganda (1910), French Commercials (1935-1955) and Bip... Bip... Bip... Ici Paris (1950), any amateur of the curios of silent and early cinema will already be convinced that they need to see this collection – the sixth in the series – of films rescued from the decomposition of destruction of highly flammable nitrate film stock. The real treasures here though are hidden by anonymous titles. Suspense is a generic title, but the film is a short by pioneering female director Lois Weber, and its angles, split-screens and unusual compositions used in telling the story of a woman fearful for her safety in her house as an intruder threatens, lift it above the ordinary. There is also a film from Alice Guy-Blaché, considered to be the first female director in the industry, who comes up trumps with Making an American Citizen (1912), a film about the re-education of a boorish man in the ways of the land of the free. The Pest is a fairly anonymous title too, but it is in fact a very good, and otherwise uncollected Stan Laurel short, directed by Broncho Billy Anderson, while Balloonland is a ComiColor animated short from Ub Iwerks (Walt Disney’s chief collaborator and the creator of Mickey Mouse). There is even a fifties strip film. Another eclectic and highly entertaining volume in the series.

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