Flicker Alley signs distribution agreement for Blackhawk films
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By Cindy Spielvogel -- Video Business, 9/4/2007
SEPT. 4 | Classic cinema programming supplier Flicker Alley has made an exclusive distribution agreement with Film Preservation Associates for the production and release of home video titles from the Blackhawk Films Collection.
The first title, Discovering Cinema, is a two-disc set on the birth of sound and color cinema produced by Lobster Films/Histoire. It will be released Sept. 25 (prebook now; DVD $29.99). Included in the collection is a new restoration of La Cucaracha (1934), the first live-action film to utilize the three-strip Technicolor process.
Future releases will include a double feature of the landmark film Traffic in Souls (1913) and The Italian (1915), both from the National Film Registry; and Saved From the Flames, a two-disc anthology of rare and restored nitrate era films from 1900 to 1928.
Blackhawk Films originated in 1927 as a producer of film advertising and distributor of regional newsreels, later adding sound films and sales of used film. Its library was later acquired by film historian and preservationist David Shepard as a banner under his company, Film Preservation Associates.
