Description
Summary:Continuation of disc one.
Item Description:The 4-Disc set contains all 140 complete films produced by the Edison Company between 1889-1918.
Special features: All films are restored and newly mastered, with all new musical scores; over 200 scans - including stills, script fragments, interoffice memos, and promotions; film by film program notes ; two hour of video interviews with archivists and cinema scholars discussing specific films, the Edison studios and efforts to preserve the Edison legacy (Steven Higgins, curator, Department of Film, The Museum of Modern Art ; Charles Musser, Professor of Film and American Studies, Yale University ; Eileen Bowser, Curator Emerita, The Museum of Modern Art ; Paul Israel, Director and editor of the Edison papers, Rutgers University ; Richard Koszarski, Associated Professor of English, Rutgers University ; Patrick Loughney, Head, Moving Image Section, The Library of Congress ; Michele Wallace, Professor of English, the City College) ; photo archives of more than 200 documents from MOMA's Edison Collection ; Detailed film notes by Charles Musser, the world's leading authority on the Edison studio.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (204 min.) : sd., col. and b&w. ; 4 3/4 in.
Format:DVD, region 1, full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby Digital.
Audience:MPAA rating: Not rated.
Production Credits:Photography, Michael Schmidt ; music composers, Philip Carli, Jon C. Mirsalis, Ben Model, Donald Sosin, Clark Wilson.