“DISCOVERING CINEMA” also contains over two and a half hours of bonus materials including a fantastic new restoration of the first live action film to utilize the three-strip Technicolor process, La Cucaracha (1934), struck from the original nitrate negatives. Additional bonus features include two 1908 films with songs performed by Enrico Caruso, a 1927 interview with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, an example of a “part-talkie” as an episode of the silent serial The Collegians, the first hand-painted Lumière films from the end of the nineteenth century, a vintage stenciled-colored Paris fashion review from the mid-1920s, and unique color film images of the Marx Brothers shot in 1930.

Discovering Cinema:
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