Renoir shorts : the little match girl & the Charleston.
The little match girl, inspired by a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, shows the visions seen by a poor match seller as she lights her matches one by one to keep from freezing to death. Charleston shows the journey of a man in blackface to a post-Apocalyptic Paris, where he meets a girl who teach...
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| Format: | Video VHS |
| Language: | French |
| Language Notes: | First film is silent with musical score and English intertitles; second film is silent. |
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Burbank, Calif. :
Hollywood's Attic,
[1996]
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| Summary: | The little match girl, inspired by a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, shows the visions seen by a poor match seller as she lights her matches one by one to keep from freezing to death. Charleston shows the journey of a man in blackface to a post-Apocalyptic Paris, where he meets a girl who teaches him the Charleston and they leave together in his spaceship. |
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| Item Description: | Titles on cassette label and container: Little match girl, 1928 & La jetée, 1963. La petite marchande d'allumettes was originally produced as a silent motion picture in 1928; La jetée was originally produced as a motion picture in 1964. Title from the cassette label. La petite marchande d'allumettes (approximately 29 min.) was originally produced as a silent motion picture in 1928; Charleston (approximately 18 min.) was originally produced as a silent motion picture in 1927. Videorecording. |
| Physical Description: | 1 videocassette (47 min.) : sound and silent, black and white ; 1/2 in. |
| Format: | VHS. |