• Special Exclusive US Screening •
In partnership with La Cinémathèque Française
Early Capturing of the Writing of Movement
Richard Patry, President of the National Federation of French Theaters (FNCF) presents Laurent Mannoni, Director of Technical Heritage of the Cinémathèque Française, Todd Schall-Vess as bonimenteur and organist Bob Gulledge at the Mighty Wurlitzer
Saturday, March 28 – 9:45 p.m. • 40 min • All Audiences • In French with English subtitles
Restored Rare Films Spectacularly Screened and Accompanied as Only the Byrd Theatre Can Do It!
Paul Nadar’s screenings
4K digital restoration completed in 2013 from period negatives and copies part of the Olivier Auboin-Vermorel collection deposited at the Cinémathèque française.
• Danses slaves and Danses russes (actresses the Rappo Sisters)
• Les Deux Gosses (actresses Marthe Mellot and Hélène Reyé)
• Paul Nadar pratiquant l’escrime
• Paul Nadar lisant L’Écho de Paris à la terrasse d’un café
(1896, 35mm, 1 minute each)
• Mademoiselle Zambelli de l’Opéra (actress Carlotta Zambelli)
(1898, 35mm, 1 minute)
• Danse du papillon (actor Bob Walter)
• Scène de rêve
• Rue Royale
• Place de La Concorde
(1896, 35mm, 1 minute each)
Étienne-Jules Marey & Lucien Bull’s screenings
2K restoration completed in 2014 from a non-perforated 35mm negative, part of the Olivier Auboin-Vermorel collection preserved at the Cinémathèque française.
• Gare Saint-Lazare
(1899, 35mm, 1 minute)
Hand Painted Fairground films’s screenings
4K digital restoration completed in 2015 from 35mm nitrate copies, hand colored by brush, with Lumière perforations, part of the Olivier Auboin-Vermorel collection deposited at the Cinémathèque française. Restoration and digitalization with the support of the CNC.
• Bagarre autour d’un marchand de fleurs (1 minute)
• Vue comique militaire (3 minutes)
• Scène de théâtre pour effets de sonorisation (2 minutes)
• Manège devant le Cirque des Champs-Elysées (2 minutes)
• Banquet de mariage, scène comique (2 minutes)
• Cirque miniature (2 minutes)
• Chapeau de Tabarin (3 minutes)
(35mm, circa 1896-1900)
Georges Méliès’s screenings
4K digital restoration completed in 2013 from a nitrate copy, hand-brushed, deposited by Marie-Hélène Lehérissey-Méliès at the Cinémathèque française.
• Rip Van Winkle (1905 – 15 minutes)
Credits : DR