Treasures from a Chest

Introduced/Piano Accompaniment by Serge Bromberg. A chest found recently in an old house on France's Atlantic coast yielded nearly 200 pounds of old silent films. These included many rare, early films from the production houses of Lumière, Gaumont, and Pathé, as well as no fewer than 21 films made by pioneer magician and filmmaker Georges Méliès between 1986 and 1903 that had long been considered totally lost! Many of these extraordinary finds, along with other rarities by Alice Guy, Fernand Zecca, Segundo de Chomon, and others, will be presented by Serge Bromberg, of Paris's Lobster Films, who is not only a passionate silent film collector and presenter, but a talented raconteur and an accomplished musician.

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