Short Film DVDs

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Are there any complilation DVDs of 'great/classic/important short films'?

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Friday, 25 April 2003 03:49 (twenty-two years ago)

'Aardman Classics' looks good. You get a book too.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 25 April 2003 18:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, there's the Short series, but I wouldn't consider too much of it as "classic" or "important."

Short 4 - Seduction should be noted for including the amazing animated short T.R.A.N.S.I.T., which has a Memento-style reverse-chronology (although it predated Memento) and is a remarkable achievement - every section is done in its own animation style, and the end (er, beginning) is utterly devastating. It also has Don Hertzfeldt's Lily and Jim, which is the funniest "blind date" sketch I've ever seen.

(excerpt, from memory)
Lily, making small talk: Did you know that the average middle aged man has 20 pounds of undigested beef in his colon?
Jim, struggling with a response: Really? Maybe that's why my father has so much blood in his stool.
*silence*
*shame*

― Ernest P. (ernestp), Friday, 25 April 2003 20:15 (twenty-two years ago)

there are some hellish student film ones out there they made us watch back in film school.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 25 April 2003 20:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Classic silent short collections list, from this page:
http://www.silentera.com/DVD/index.html

Animation Legend: Winsor McCay (1911-1921)
Arbuckle & Keaton, Volume One (1917-1919)
Arbuckle & Keaton, Volume Two (1918-1920)
Chaplin: Collector’s Choice Double Feature (1914-1918)
Chaplin’s Essanay Comedies, Volume 1 (1915)
Chaplin’s Essanay Comedies, Volume 2 (1915)
Charlie Chaplin Marathon (1914-1917)
A Christmas Past (1901-1925)
Hal Roach’s Rascals (1925-1938)
Keaton Plus (1921-1962)
Landmarks of Early Film, Volume 1 (1894-1913)
Landmarks of Early Film, Volume 2: The Magic of Méliès (1904-1908)
The Lost Films of Laurel and Hardy, Volume 3 (1922-1929)
The Lumière Brothers’ First Films (1895-1897)
The Masterworks of the German Horror Cinema (1919-1922)
The Movies Begin (1894-1913)
Presenting Felix the Cat (1919-1924)
Silent Shakespeare (1899-1911)
Slapstick Encyclopedia (1909-1929)
Treasures from American Film Archives (1893-1985)
W.C. Fields: Collector’s Choice Double Feature (1915-1933)
World War I Films of the Silent Era (1916-1917)

― A Nairn (moretap), Friday, 25 April 2003 20:50 (twenty-two years ago)

six years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UdZSrEos-k

― scott seward, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 22:18 (fifteen years ago)

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