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William Boyd
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Rupert Julian
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: Flicker Alley
: Action, Classics, Classic Action/Adventure, Silent, Adventure, Classic Action/Adventure, Seafaring, Swashbucklers, Silent Action/Adventure
: 130 min.
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Flicker Alley, a specialty supplier of fine silent films and classic cinema programming, in association with the
Blackhawk Film Collection, announces the release of Under Full Sail - Silent Cinema on the High Seas, a new
DVD release featuring five breathtaking films that preserve the romance, grandeur and allure of windjammers sailing
open waters, exquisitely photographed in the style of the time.
The Yankee Clipper (1927), produced by Cecil B. DeMille and directed by Rupert Julian, restored to the most
complete version available since the film's release, is a feature-length melodrama recreating the real-life race from
Foo Chow to Boston for the China tea trade. The gorgeous production filmed at sea for six weeks aboard the 1856
wooden square-rigger Indiana with stars William Boyd, Elinor Fair and Frank Junior Coghlan. Renowned organist
Dennis James, in his solo DVD premiere, accompanies the film on an original-installation 1928 Wurlitzer pipe organ
recorded at Seattle's Paramount Theatre.
Around the Horn in a Square Rigger (1933) was filmed by noted sailor, author, and photographer Alan Villiers
documenting the record-breaking 83-day voyage of the 1902 barque Parma from Australia to England in the 1933 Grain
Race. Villiers writes, We wanted to make a picture that would capture some of the stirring beauty of these
ships...some glimmer of understanding of the attraction which they hold over those who sail in them. Music by Eric
Beheim.
The Square Rigger (1932), an early sound short filmed as part of Fox's Magic Carpet of Movietone, 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.
Ship Ahoy (1928), is 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. Music by Eric Beheim.
The collection is rounded off with a ten-minute sequence from Down to the Sea in Ships (1922), documenting 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. Music by Dennis James.
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