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Early
Russian Cinema
Volume 3
(1908-1917)

Contents: The Dragonfly and the Ant [Strekova i muravei] (1913), Christmas Eve [Noch’pered rozhdestvom] (1913) and The Lily of Belgium [Liliia Bel’gii] (1915).

This volume focuses on the animation and live-action films of Wladislaw Starewicz.

The Milestone Cinematheque
2008 DVD edition

Early Russian Cinema, Volume 3 (1908-1917), black & white, 61 minutes total, not rated, including The Dragonfly and the Ant [Strekova i muravei] (1913), black & white, 6 minutes, not rated, Christmas Eve [Noch’pered rozhdestvom] (1913), black & white, 41 minutes, not rated, and The Lily of Belgium [Liliia Bel’gii] (1915), black & white, 14 minutes, not rated.

Milestone Film & Video, Mile012D, UPC 7-84148-00124-1.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD-R disc; 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; Russian language intertitles, permanent English language subtitles; chapter stops; slimline DVD keepcase; $24.95.
Release date: 2008
Country of origin: USA •

Originally produced for home video by the British Film Institute in 1991 and released in the USA on VHS videotape by Milestone Film & Video, this ten-volume (nine-disc) collection of prerevolutionary Russian film productions is now available on NTSC DVD-R discs.

The film are accompanied with piano music scores by Neil Brand.

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