FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: JULY 11, 2007

Specialty DVD Supplier Flicker Alley and Film Preservation Associates Announce Exclusive Home Video Distribution Agreement for Titles in the Blackhawk Films Collection

Inaugural Release "Discovering Cinema" A 2-DVD set slated for September 18,
2007; Upcoming "Saved from the Flames" Material to Screen at San Francisco
Silent Film Festival

(Los Angeles, CA) Flicker Alley, LLC, a specialty supplier of classic cinema programming, has entered into an exclusive distribution agreement with Film Preservation Associates, Inc. for the production and release of several home video titles from the Blackhawk Films Collection in 2007 and 2008.

Flicker Alley and Blackhawk Films' inaugural title, "DISCOVERING CINEMA," is currently scheduled for a September 18, 2007 release. The two-disc DVD is comprised of Learning to Talk and Movies Dream in Color, produced by Lobster Films/Histoire, 2003-2004. Film historians Eric Lange and Serge Bromberg compiled materials from their own Lobster Films collection and material from archives throughout Europe and the USA to create these two historic documentaries illustrating the birth of sound and color cinema, perhaps the greatest cultural achievement of the twentieth century.

"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. The "DISCOVERING CINEMA" DVD carries a suggested retail price of $29.99.

Flicker Alley and Film Preservation Associates both share a commitment to high quality home video presentations of classic cinema and together are now poised to produce some of the most exciting releases yet in the specialty DVD market. Subsequent titles being announced under this new production and distribution agreement include a single disc DVD double feature of Traffic in Souls (1913) and The Italian (1915), both treasures from the National Film Registry; and "SAVED FROM THE FLAMES," a two disc DVD anthology of rare
and restored nitrate era films dating from 1900-1928. "SAVED FROM THE FLAMES" includes both Blackhawk material and a generous selection from the French DVD series and annual live program Retour de Flamme, produced by Serge Bromberg of Lobster Films, Paris. Mr. Bromberg will introduce and provide piano accompaniment for a special screening of a selection of these films at the twelfth annual San Francisco Silent Film Festival, taking place
July 13-15 at the Castro Theatre.

ABOUT THE BLACKHAWK COLLECTION

Blackhawk Films was founded in 1927 as a producer of film advertising for merchants and as a distributor of regional newsreels. In 1934, the company made its mark as a distributor of 16mm sound films, eventually establishing several regional offices before WWII. In 1947, the company moved into sales of used film, and soon thereafter began distributing 8mm and 16mm prints of Laurel and Hardy silents from Hal Roach Studios, as well as titles from other key suppliers such as Fox Movietone News, Killiam Shows and National Telefilm Associates. Film historian and preservationist David Shepard joined Blackhawk in 1973 as Vice President and eventually acquired the Blackhawk Films library in 1987, when he founded Film Preservation Associates.

ABOUT FILM PRESERVATION ASSOCIATES

Under the Blackhawk Films banner, Film Preservation Associates has produced over 150 high-quality restorations and presentations of silent films for the home video market, released through independent distributors such as Image Entertainment and Kino on Video. David Shepard has produced many notable titles, including "The Art of Buster Keaton," a special edition DVD of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World (1925), the hand-colored silent version of Cyrano de Bergerac, and the 7-disc DVD "Unseen Cinema: Early American
Avant-Garde Film 1894-1941," hailed by the New York Times as "one of the major monuments of the DVD medium."