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Treasures from the Desmet Collection at the Eye Filmmuseum
(1910-1917)

Contents: The Vicar of Wakefield (1910), Cinderella (1911), The Coffin Ship (1911), An Elevator Romance (1911), Silas Marner (1911), Her Nephew from Labrador (1913), Just a Shabby Doll (1913), The Spoiled Darling’s Doll (1913), Clarence Cheats at Croquet (1915) and A Modern Monte Cristo (1917).

Some films in this collection have been previously released on home video by Thanhouser Company Film Preservation, however, it is likely that these are from unique European prints.

Thanhouser Company
Film Preservation
201? DVD edition

Treasures from the Desmet Collection at the Eye Filmmuseum (1910-1917), black & white, 186 minutes total, not rated, including The Vicar of Wakefield (1910), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Cinderella (1911), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, The Coffin Ship (1911), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, An Elevator Romance (1911), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Silas Marner (1911), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Her Nephew from Labrador (1913), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Just a Shabby Doll (1913), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, The Spoiled Darling’s Doll (1913), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Clarence Cheats at Croquet (1915), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, and A Modern Monte Cristo (1917), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.

Thanhouser Company Film Preservation, no catalog number, unknown UPC number.
Two single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD-R 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) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; double-wide two-disc DVD keepcase; $19.95.
Release date: 201?
Country of origin: USA

This DVD-R collection has been mastered from archival film materials held by the Eye Film Instituut Nederland.

The films are accompanied by music scores composed and performed by Ray Brubacher, Andy Crow and Ben Model.

Supplemental material includes a video tour of the Eye Film Instituut Nederland film archive hosted by curator Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi; and footage of the James Cruze and Marguerite Snow wedding with footage of newly-born daughter Julie.

This is a recommended home video edition of these films.

This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available directly from . . .