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As a leading distributor of classic, silent cinema working with leading archives from around the world, including the UCLA Film & Television Archive, Academy Film Archive, Netherlands Filmmuseum, and the Cineteca di Bologna, Flicker Alley has produced and published some of the most acclaimed and definitive restorations of important silents and classics, and film about film.
Instructors will now be able to make films like Melies' A Trip to the Moon, Chaplin's seminal Keystone comedies, Abel Gance's anti-war masterpiece J'Accuse, Douglass Fairbank's "Modern Everyman" comedies (such as Wild and Woolly), and dozens of others seminal films available to their students whenever they need to see them.
Flicker Alley offers most of the films in our collection for direct, on-campus streaming for academic use. North American Digital Site Licenses are now available which which allow institutions to encode, locally host and stream at their colleges, universities or libraries. The majority of our titles can be sold with lifetime streaming rights, though some are limited to 5-10 years (please check the list below). Streaming would be done on your own password protected system and accessible only to accredited students, faculty & staff. An institutional physical copy (as needed) is also included in the sale.
Digital Site Licenses are available for order both by credit card or purchase order. To order online, click the 'Purchase' links to the right of the titles. You may also order with us directly using a credit card and sending us order information [Institution name, contact, address, credit card or purchase order number] via fax to (323) 843 9367. For a sample of a Digital Site License agreement, click here.
Public Performance Rights. If you intend to charge admission or publicly advertise a screening of one of our titles, please contact us to work out a reasonable public performance/screening fee.
For North American Institutional DVD Sales (physical DVD copies with Public Performance Rights included) please visit:
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LANDMARKS OF EARLY SOVIET FILM |
$500 (lifetime rights) |
This groundbreaking collection features eight seminal films from the Soviet
silent era: Sergei Eisenstein's last silent and seldom seen Old and New (1929), Dziga Vertov's Stride, Soviet (1926), Victor Turin's Turksib (1930), Esther Shub's The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty (1927), Boris Barnet's The House on Trubnaya (1928), Lev Kuleshov's The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks (1924) and By the Law (1926), Mikhail Kalatozov's Salt for Svanetia (1930)." |
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CHAPLIN AT KEYSTON |
$500 (lifetime rights) |
Charles Chaplin came to Mack Sennett's Keystone Studios late in 1913 as a little-known British vaudevillian, and after a year, had not only established his Tramp character, learned to write and direct his own films, and also achieved public recognition as a star comedian. |
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GEORGES MÉLIÈS - FIRST WIZARD OF CINEMA (1896 - 1913) |
$500 (lifetime rights) |
Georges Méliès built the world's first movie studio in 1896 near Paris; from it cascaded fantastic magic films, dream films, historical reconstructions, imaginary journeys, melodramas, slapstick comedies -- even erotic films. Examples of all are here, with many still retaining power to astonish and charm. |
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DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS - A MODERM MUSKETEER |
$500 (lifetime rights) |
Includes eleven of the joyful modern-dress comedies, westerns, satires, dream-fantasies and romances which, though mostly seldom-seen, made Fairbanks a tremendously popular hero. |
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LIFETIME RIGHTS ($500) |
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SAVED FROM THE FLAMES |
$500 (lifetime rights) |
A unique and wonderful collection of 54 rare and restored short films from the inflammable years of cinema. |
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J'ACCUSE |
$500 (lifetime rights) |
Abel Gance's extraordinary breakthrough work, is a WW I drama considered to be one of the most technically advanced films of the era and the first major pacifist film. |
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LA ROUE |
$500 (lifetime rights) |
Written and directed by Abel Gance (Napoleon, J'Accuse), this monumental French film is one of the most extraordinary achievements in the whole history of cinema. |
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JUDEX |
$500 (lifetime rights) |
The mysterious Judex is torn between an oath of justice against the wealthy banker Favraux, who had earlier wronged his family, and his secret love of Favraux's daughter, Jacqueline. |
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LIFETIME RIGHTS ($400) |
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DISCOVERING CINEMA |
$400 (lifetime rights) |
Two historic documentaries illustrating the birth of sound and color cinema, perhaps the greatest cultural achievement of the twentieth century. |
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THE VALENTINO COLLECTION |
$400 (lifetime rights) |
The definitive Valentino compilation featuring digital reconstructions of four previously unavailable films - The Young Rajah, Stolen Moments, Society Sensation and Moran of the Lady Letty |
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PERILS OF THE NEW LAND |
$400 (lifetime rights) |
Features The Italian (1915) and Traffic in Souls (1913), two riveting and important social dramas of the American silent screen. |
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UNDER FULL SAIL |
$400 (lifetime rights) |
Discover a time when the truest adventure had the wind at your back and an infinite horizon all around. |
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LIFETIME RIGHTS ($350) |
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CHICAGO |
$350 (lifetime rights) |
This original 1927 version descends from a 1926 hit Broadway play by Maurine Watkins. It's a terrifically entertaining mix of humor and melodrama as well as a pungent critique of trash journalism. |
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GEORGES MÉLIÈS - ENCORE |
$350 (lifetime rights) |
Further support that Méliès was the most accomplished filmmaker in the world during the first years of cinema. |
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BARDELYS THE MAGNIFICENT AND MONTE CRISTO |
$350 (lifetime rights) |
Two resurrected classics, both top-of-the-line productions starring John Gilbert, one of the most handsome, passionate and popular stars of the 1920s. |
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THE GARDEN OF EDEN |
$350 (lifetime rights) |
This thoroughly entertaining romantic comedy from 1928 was an important film for both its beguiling star, Corrine Griffith, and talented director, Lewis Milestone. |
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LAILA |
$350 (lifetime rights) |
1929's epically scaled Norwegian feature, which brings every exotic corner of on-location Scandinavia to the forefront in a decades-spanning romantic adventure. |
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MISS MEND |
$350 (lifetime rights) |
A 1926 three-part serial / adventure film from Soviet directors Boris Barnet and Fedor Ozep. One of the most successful Soviet films of the 1920s. |
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PHANTOM |
$350 (lifetime rights) |
Phantom marked a major turning point in the influential career and the groundbreaking style of cinema poet F.W. Murnau. In this beautifully reconstructed and restored edition from an amazingly detailed, original 1922 negative, Alfred Abel (Metropolis, Dr. Mabuse) plays Lorenz Lubota, a man obsessed with his own desires to achieve fame and wealth, who must confront the barriers of class keeping him from a woman (Lya de Putti) with whom he has had a fateful encounter. |
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LIMITED RIGHTS TITLES |
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THE ITALIAN STRAW HAT |
$250 (5 years) |
René Clair's sparkling comedy of manners is a witty, delicate, inspired satire on propriety and behavior in the bourgeois mind-set. |
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HENRI-GEORGES CLOUZOT'S INFERNO |
$350 (8 years) |
One of the great, unfinished works in film history, Inferno, was an audaciously experimental film with a virtually unlimited budget that was stopped only three weeks into production. |
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