Under full sail : silent cinema on the high seas

Publication/Creation:

Los Angeles, Calif. : Flicker Alley, [2009]

Resource Type:

Video or Visual Material

Edition:

Standard format.

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Additional/Related Title Information

Full Title:

Under full sail : silent cinema on the high seas / Blackhawk Films ; Film Preservation Associates, Inc. ; produced by David Shepard and Jeffery Masino

Series Titles:

Blackhawk Films collection
Blackhawk Films collection.

Related/Included Titles:

Yankee clipper /
Ship ahoy! /
Square-rigger /
Around the Horn in a square rigger
Down to the sea in ships /

Variant Titles:

Silent cinema on the high seas

Related Names

Additional Author/Creators:

Julian, Rupert
Shepard, David
Masino, Jeffery
Sullivan, C. Gardner, 1884-1965
Clift, Denison, 1885-1961
Weston, Garnett, 1890-1980
Boyd, William, 1895-1972
Fair, Elinor
Coghlan, Frank
DeMille Pictures Corporation
Producers Distributing Corporation
Movietonews (Firm)
Fox Film Corporation
Whaling Film Corporation
Blackhawk Films
Film Preservation Associates
Flicker Alley (Firm)

Subjects/Genre

Genre:

Feature films
Documentary films
Historical films
Silent films

Subjects:

Tea trade
Lumber trade--North America
Windjammers (Sailing ships)
Square-riggers
Marine photography
Naval education
Whaling

Description/Summary

Table of Contents:

The Yankee clipper / C. Gardner Sullivan ; produced by De Mille Pictures Corporation for Producers Distributing Corporation ; story, Denison Clift ; adaptation, Garnett Weston ; director, Rupert Julian (1927, ca. 80 min.) -- Ship ahoy! / Fox Film Corporation (c1928, ca. 9 min.) -- The Square-rigger / Magic Carpet of Movietone ; distributed by Fox Film Corporation (1932) -- Around the Horn in a square rigger (1933) -- Down to the sea in ships / produced by the Whaling Film Corporation (1922, ca. 10-min. excerpt).

Summary:

[The Yankee clipper] Feature-length melodrama recreating the real-life race from Foo Chow to Boston for the China tea trade, filmed at sea for six weeks aboard the 1856 wooden square-rigger Indiana.
[Ship ahoy!] A unique record of the conditions and traditions of the North American lumber trade featuring an unidentified schooner equipped with a fore and aft rig as it transports lumber from the Carolinas up the coast to a northern port.
[The square rigger] Early sound short shows life aboard the schoolship Dar Pomorza, "The White Frigate." Built in 1909 as the Prinzess Eitel Friedrich, it was ceded from Germany to France as a prize of World War I, and was later donated to the Polish State Maritime School in 1930 where it served 50 years and trained more than 13,000 cadets.
[Around the Horn in a square rigger] Documents the record-breaking 83-day voyage of the 1902 barque Parma from Australia to England in the 1933 Grain Race.
[Down to the sea in ships] Documents an authentic whale hunt from the 1878 wooden ship Wanderer out of New Bedford, Massachusetts. The cameramen risk their lives to capture practices unchanged since Herman Melville immortalized them in Moby Dick.

Language:

English

Physical Type/Description:

1 videodisc (130 min.) : silent/sound, black & white/tinted ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (15 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).

Technical Note:

DVD; NTSC; Region 0; standard format (1.33:1 aspect ratio); Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo.

General Note:

Accompanying booklet includes film annotations by John E. Stone and an essay "Giving musical life to the Yankee Clipper" by Dennis James.

Participant/Performer Note:

[The Yankee Clipper] William Boyd, Elinor Fair, Frank "Junior" Coghlan.

Creation/Production Credits Note:

[The Yankee Clipper] Photography, John Mescall ; editor, Harold McLernon.
[Ship ahoy] Musical setting, Eric Beheim.
[Around the horn in a square rigger] Photographed by Alan J. Villiers ; music, Eric Beheim.
[Down to the sea in ships] Filmed by A. G. Penrod and Paul Allen ; music compiled and performed by Dennis James.

Additional Identifiers

Catalog ID (MMSID):

990023082660302486

ISBN:

1893967433
9781893967434

OCLC Number:

319437020

Other Identifiers:

Universal Product Code: 617311674396

Publisher Number:

FA0012 Flicker Alley

Barcode:

10002338802