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Science is Fiction
The Films of Jean Painlevé
(1910-1978)

 

Contents: The Birth of a Flower (1910), The Strength and Agility of Insects (1911), Colour on the Thames (1935), L’hippocampe, ou ‘Cheval marin’ [The Sea Horse] (1935), Le vampire [The Vampire] (1945), Oursins [Sea Urchins] (1954) and Les amours de la pieuvre [The Love Life of the Octopus] (1967).

coverBritish Film Institute
2007 DVD edition

Science is Fiction: The Films of Jean Painlevé (1910-1978), color and black & white, 335 minutes total, BBFC Certificate E, including The Birth of a Flower (1910), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, The Strength and Agility of Insects (1911), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Colour on the Thames (1935), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, L’hippocampe, ou ‘Cheval marin’ [The Sea Horse] (1935), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Le vampire [The Vampire] (1945), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Oursins [Sea Urchins] (1954), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, and Les amours de la pieuvre [The Love Life of the Octopus] (1967), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.

British Film Institute, BFIVD719, UPC 5-035673-007198.
Two single-sided, single-layered, Region 2 PAL DVD discs; 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan image encoded in SDR MPEG-2 format at ? Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to ? fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 5.1 surround sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard two-disc DVD keepcase; unknown suggested retail price.
Release date: 28 May 2007.
Country of origin: England

This Region 2 PAL DVD edition has been mastered from archival print materials.

The films are accompanied by music scores composed and performed by Yo La Tengo.

Supplemental material includes two silent era films by F. Percy Smith; an introduction by academic Dr. Michael Abecassis; and a short film by Adrian Klein, Colour on the Thames (1935).

Sight unseen, this is our recommended home video edition of the Smith films.

 
This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition has been discontinued
and is . . .
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