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Article: Women Film Pioneers on Video: An Interview with Jessica Rosner.(Interview)(Brief Article)
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- December 22, 2000
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Silent films have always been an important part of the Kino International film collection. The company inaugurated its own video label, Kino on Video, in 1987 and one of their earliest video packages was a ten-film series of silents called "They Had Faces Then," which included films like Queen Kelly, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, and The Phantom of the Opera, which met with great success. Since then Kino has released over 130 silent films on video, many of them restored by David Shepard. The list includes films by D.W. Griffith (a three-volume series of Biograph shorts and most of his key features on individual tapes), the early work of Charlie Chaplin (three volumes of his ...