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The Alloy Orchestra
Plays
Wild and Weird

14 Fascinating and Innovative Films 1902-1965
(1902-1965)

 

Contents: Le voyage dans la lune [A Trip to the Moon] (1902), Dream of a Rarebit Fiend (1906), Le spectre rouge [The Red Spectre] (1907), The Acrobatic Fly (1908), The Thieving Hand (1908), Princess Nicotine; or, The Smoke Fairy (1909), Those Awful Hats (1909), Arthème avale sa clarinette [Artheme Swallows His Clarinet] (1912), Miest kinooperatora [The Cameraman’s Revenge] (1912), The Pet (1921), The Playhouse (1921), Filmstudie (1926), The Life and Death of 9413, a Hollywood Extra (1928), Clay; or, The Origin of Species (1965).

This compilation has filled an interesting niche in silent film collecting, being for the most part, focused more on the musical accompaniment of films. The collection presents varied musical styles by The Alloy Orchestra to a loosely organized parade of films that are of an experimental or simply unusual ilk. Most of the films have been presented on home video before in other collections, so the scarceness of the films is not the attraction but, instead, it is the music that is important. As we have said before, if you are familiar with The Alloy Orchestra’s work you either love them or hate them. We love their sometimes quirkiness, sometimes melodic, often thrashing approach to silent film accompaniment. We feel that, with so many fine practitioners of the historic forms of silent film accompaniment, there is room — even a need — for alternate forms of music to bring silent films alive for audiences who might think that they and their traditional forms of music are too old-fashioned to be of interest.

Carl Bennett

Flicker Alley
2011 DVD edition

The Alloy Orchestra Plays Wild and Weird: 14 Fascinating and Innovative Films 1902-1965 (1902-1965), black & white, 140 minutes total, not rated,
including Le Voyage dans la lune [A Trip to the Moon] (1902), black & white, 13 minutes, not rated, Dream of a Rarebit Fiend (1906), black & white, 8 minutes, not rated, Le spectre rouge [The Red Spectre] (1907), color-toned black & white, 9 minutes, not rated, The Acrobatic Fly (1908), color-tinted black & white, 3 minutes, not rated, The Thieving Hand (1908), black & white, 6 minutes, not rated, Princess Nicotine; or, The Smoke Fairy (1909), black & white, 5 minutes, not rated, Those Awful Hats (1909), black & white, 3 minutes, not rated, Arthème avale sa clarinette [Artheme Swallows His Clarinet] (1912), black & white, 4 minutes, not rated, Miest kinooperatora [The Cameraman’s Revenge] (1912), color-toned black & white, 13 minutes, not rated, The Pet (1921), black & white, 10 minutes, not rated, The Playhouse (1921), black & white, 23 minutes, not rated, Filmstudie (1926), black & white, 5 minutes, not rated, The Life and Death of 9413, a Hollywood Extra (1928), black & white, 13 minutes, not rated, and Clay; or, The Origin of Species (1965), black & white, 8 minutes, not rated.

Flicker Alley, FA0021, UPC 6-17311-67649-9, ISBN 1-893967-64-6.
One single-sided, dual-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD disc, 1.33:1 aspect ratio image in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan MPEG-2 format, SDR (standard dynamic range), 6.2 Mbps average video bit rate, 192 Kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 48 kHz 8-bit 2.0 stereo sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $29.95.
Release date: 28 June 2011.
Country of origin: USA

Most of the films in this DVD collection have appeared on home video before in other collections. These films have been transferred full-frame from 35mm print sources.

The supplemental material includes the brief documentary Alloy Orchestra Plays Filmstudie (2011) presented in 16:9 anamorphic video (10 minutes).

Recommended but, unfortunately, the disc is now out-of-print.

 
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