This is 5 newly restored Starewitch shorts and a short documentary. On Region 2 with Eng subs. I bought it on amazon.fr for 14 Euro plus shipping (all told about $32).
http://www.dorianefilms.c...hp?id=667&target=new
6 Movies from 1922 to 1932, original French version with the voice of L. B. Martin, daughter of L. Starewitch Martin-Starewitch -
Original music by Jacques Cambra - Doriane Films - English subtitles
THE LION AND THE FLY(1932) Black and white, original soundtrack of the time
THE CITY RAT AND THE COUNTRY MOUSE (1926) The city rat from a weekend driving his Torpedo. This crazy driving in the dark setting, the risk of crashing the rat shack fields. The villain invites the peasant (astride the hood) to party in Paris ...
FROGS REQUESTING A KING (1922) (Frogland in the US) Turn and tinting color, sound The Grasshopper and the Ant (1927) Turn and tinting color, sound
THE OLD LION (1932) A hoary old monarch, hobbling and bespectacled, remembers the happy days when he played Romeo with his lioness, renewing a tasty flashback scene from the balcony.
(3 minute autodocumentary) BORN AND HOW ONE COMES TO LIFE PUPPET MOVIE (1932) Black and white, sound Ladislas Starewitch to work with her eldest daughter Irene: self-portrait
http://www.dorianefilms.c...hp?id=667&target=new
6 Movies from 1922 to 1932, original French version with the voice of L. B. Martin, daughter of L. Starewitch Martin-Starewitch -
Original music by Jacques Cambra - Doriane Films - English subtitles
THE LION AND THE FLY(1932) Black and white, original soundtrack of the time
THE CITY RAT AND THE COUNTRY MOUSE (1926) The city rat from a weekend driving his Torpedo. This crazy driving in the dark setting, the risk of crashing the rat shack fields. The villain invites the peasant (astride the hood) to party in Paris ...
FROGS REQUESTING A KING (1922) (Frogland in the US) Turn and tinting color, sound The Grasshopper and the Ant (1927) Turn and tinting color, sound
THE OLD LION (1932) A hoary old monarch, hobbling and bespectacled, remembers the happy days when he played Romeo with his lioness, renewing a tasty flashback scene from the balcony.
(3 minute autodocumentary) BORN AND HOW ONE COMES TO LIFE PUPPET MOVIE (1932) Black and white, sound Ladislas Starewitch to work with her eldest daughter Irene: self-portrait
