D.W. Griffith - Orphans of the Storm (1921)

D.W. Griffith - Orphans of the Storm (1921) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0012532/ [quote]D.W. Griffith has tossed two orphans onto the tempestuous sea of the French Revolution and uses the ride-to-the-rescue for a finale, with an orphan under the guillotine and 'Danton five miles away'. This scene is drawn out agonizingly but does not let down in any spot. The cavalry ride through the town, the storming of the moated guillotine gates, the last-minute reprieve and the hesitating release trigger on the guillotine all make for a dramatic final reel with a Griffith thrill that will compensate those who are not won by the unbelievable fidelity of the entire film historically. The plot [based on the French play Les Deux Orphelines, by D'Ennery and Cormon] carries the two orphan girls, one blind, into Paris. Dorothy Gish is the blind girl, and this step from comedienne roles into a role of unlimited emotional possibilities reveals new capabilities in the less famous of the two Gish girls.[/quote] http://img122.imageshack.us/img122/2420/orphansofthestormdriffithcover.jpg [quote]"No more gorgeous thing has ever been offered on the the screen. It has motion within motion, action within action, and it builds up to crashing climaxes with all that superb deftnition which makes Mr Griffith first and always the showman". So read one review in Moving Picture World after Orphans of the Storm premiered. After watching the film you might agree that the comments are exaggerated, yet still relevant more that 70 years after they were written. D.W. Griffith, the father of the motion picture, was directing his favourite actress, Lillian Gish, and her sister Dorothy, in this melodramatic epic set in revolutionary France. The story has Henriette and Louise as the orphaned sisters enduring a series of tribulations designed to tug your heart strings. Louise is blind, and cruelly separated from her sister, raised by thieves, and Henriette is the sweet innocent plundered by lecherous aristocrats. It's an implausible tale, but casting that aside it's also a beautiful fairy story with an excellent climax that has Henriette facing the guillotine. Griffith and Lillian Gish together made a series of films that are truly "classic" - Birth Of A Nation, Broken Blossoms, Hearts Of The World, Intolerance, True Heart Susie and Way Down East. Most are only known to film buffs and historians, becoming slightiy creaky after the passage of time. They were all silent movies, and different to anything then or since, and Orphans is one of the best examples that captures the particular mood and magic Griffith could create. Griffith also subtly put in an anti-communist message, with title cards like "The tyranny of kings and nobles is hard to bear, but the tyranny of the maddened mob under blood-lusting rulers is intolerable" and others that stab at anarchy and bolshevism. But he was mainly interested in making a good film that would enthrall its audience.[/quote] http://i672.photobucket.com/albums/vv90/tau-tau_the-egyptian-mau/o1-1.png http://i672.photobucket.com/albums/vv90/tau-tau_the-egyptian-mau/o2-1.png http://i672.photobucket.com/albums/vv90/tau-tau_the-egyptian-mau/o3-1.png http://i672.photobucket.com/albums/vv90/tau-tau_the-egyptian-mau/o4-1.png http://i672.photobucket.com/albums/vv90/tau-tau_the-egyptian-mau/o5-1.png http://i672.photobucket.com/albums/vv90/tau-tau_the-egyptian-mau/o6-1.png -------my rip------- My source did not have any of the color tints which I believe the original film did. After a lot of trial and error I was able to clean up the interlacing nicely and restore the framerate to 20FPS using tdeint(order=-1) Decimate(cycle=3) ~~~~~~ Orphans of the Storm.avi ~~~~~~ File Size (in bytes):...........................2,069,397,504 --- Video Information --- Video Codec Name:...............................XviD ISO MPEG-4 Duration (hh:mm:ss):............................2:29:56 Frame Count:....................................179726 Frame Width (pixels):...........................688 Frame Height (pixels):..........................512 Aspect Ratio:...................................1.344 Frames Per Second:..............................19.980 Video Bitrate (kbps):...........................1736 ......MPEG-4......B-VOP........................ Quality Factor (bits/pixel)/frame:..............0.247" --- Audio Information --- Audio Codec:....................................0x0055 MPEG-1 Layer 3 Audio Sample Rate (Hz):.........................32000 Audio Bitrate(kbps):............................96 Audio Bitrate Type ("CBR" or "VBR"):............CBR Audio Channel Count:............................2 [quote]Freakyflicks is a free and open community dedicated to preserving and sharing cinematic art in the digital era. Our goal is to disseminate such works of art to the widest audience possible through the channels provided by P2P technology. The Freakyflicks collection is limited to those films that have played an exceptional role in the history of cinema and its progression in becoming a great art. Films that are usually described as classic, cult, arthouse and avant-garde. If you have films that fit this description feel free to share them and participate in our community. 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dilbertgeg (2009-05-27)

Griffith flicks always fascinating slice of history.

harigata (2009-08-04)

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