GAUMONT TREASURES VOL. 2: 1908-1916

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• Genre: Documentary, Animation
• Plot: During its second decade of existence, the Gaumont Film Company continued to prove itself an indomitable force in cultivating and advancing the fledgling art of cinema. This DVD colection surveys the work of some of its most influential filmmakers, including Emile Cohl (the screen's first great animator), Jean Durand (who specialized in madcap comedy and American-style Westerns), and Jacques Feyder, whose sophisticated comedies made him the French counterpart to Ernst Lubitsch and Cecil B. DeMille.; ; More than ten hours of films, including:; ; DVD 1 - EMILE COHL: Fantasmagoria (1908), The Puppet's Nightmare (1908), The Living Fan (1909), Comic Mutations (1909), The Twelve Labors of Hercules (1910), Petit Faust (1910), Bébé's Masterpiece (1910), and more!; ; DVD 2 - JEAN DURAND: Calino Wants to Be a Cowboy (1911), Onésime Goes to Hell (1912), Onésime, Clockmaker (1912), Onésime Loves Animals (1913), Zigoto Drives a Locomotive (1912), The Railway of Death (1912), Burning Heart: An Indian Tale (1912), Under the Claw (1912), and more!; ; DVD 3 - JACQUES FEYDER and the Early Masters of French Cinema: Heads...and Women Who Use Them (1916, Jacques Feyder), The Barges (1911, George-André Lacroix), La Marseillaise (1912, Etienne Arnaud), Child's Play (1913, Henri Fescourt), Feet and Hands (1915, Gaston Ravel).
• Runtime: 9:58
• Media Format: Movie