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Hello all,
I am creating a database of sorts and am looking to see if anyone has or knows of a list of silent films distributed by Image Entertainment. These seem to be of higher quality than other releases and noticeably ripped off by other distributors and sold at a lower quality. Also for someone newer to this genre than most, what is the connection between BlackHawk and Image?
thanks!

David Shepard took over BlackHawk Films many years ago and released films through Image. You can read about the history of Blackhawk Films here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackhawk_Films" target="_blank

He now works through Flicker Alley. I don't know if he releases through other companies.

Some years ago I made a list of David Shepard's releases through Image. It probably has some errors:
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David Shepard - Image DVDs that have been published:

Aelita The Queen of Mars - 1999
The Affairs of Anatol - 1999
The Best Arbuckle/Keaton Collection - 2001
Arsenal - 2003
The Battle of the Sexes - 2000
Bed and Sofa/Chess Fever - 2004
Before Hollywood There Was Ft. Lee/The New York Hat/The Wishing Ring/A Girl’s Folly - 2003
The Bells/The Crazy Ray - 1998
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari - 1997
Captain Fracasse - 2002
The Cat and the Canary/Haunted Spooks - 2005
Chaplin Mutual Comedies - 90th Anniversary - 2006
Chaplin Box Set - Great Dictator/The Gold Rush/City Lights/Modern Times(?) - 2000
The Circus - 1999
First National Collection - 2000
The Kid/A Dog’s Life - 1999
Chaplin’s Goliath - 2003
Civil War Films of the Silent Era - 2000
The Clinging Vine/The Age of Ballyhoo - 2006
Cyrano De Bergerac - 1999
Destiny - 2000
Don’t Change Your Husband/The Golden Chance - 2005
Dr. Mabuse The Gambler - 2001
The End of St. Petersburg/The Deserter - 2002
Foolish Wives - 2000
The Girl with the Hatbox/Outskirts - 2004
D.W. Griffith - Years of Discovery - 2006
The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Ultimate Edition - 2007
Joan the Woman - 2001
Spiders - 1999
Laugh with Max Lindner - 2003
Les Vampires - 2000
The Lost World - 2001
Male and Female - 1999
The Man with the Movie Camera - 1998
The Marriage Circle - 2000
Merry-Go-Round - 2003
Nomads of the North/The Shock - 2002
Nosferatu - 2000
Old Wives for New/Whispering Chorus - 2005
Oliver Twist/The Light of Faith - 2000
Outside The Law/Shadows - 2000
Regeneration/Young Romance - 2001
Salome/Lot in Sodom - 2003
The Sheik/The Son of the Sheik - 2002
The Show Off/The Plastic Age - 2001
Storm Over Asia - 1999
The Thief of Bagdad - 1998
Tol’able David - 1998
The Toll Gate/His Bitter Pill - 1999
True Heart Susie/Hoodoo Ann - 2007
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea - 1998
Unseen Cinema - 2005
Victory/The Wicked Darling - 2004
Why Change Your Wife?/Miss Lulu Bett - 2005
WWI Films of the Silent Era - 2001
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Rick

A number of the out-of-print Image titles are now available as "manufacture on demand" DVDs from Flicker Alley.

There was a point in the late 2000's at which Image got out of releasing silents. I recall that AllDay's Becoming Charley Chase set was originally supposed to be released by Image (they'd done AllDay's Langdon set), and then the game changed, and AllDay wound up working out a deal with VCI.

Ben

One good source is the Film Aficionado website. Entering "Image Entertainment" under Publisher, and "silent" under Genre, yields the following:

http://www.filmaf.com/search.html?pub=I ... ent*rgn_us" target="_blank" target="_blank

Note that this list includes the first several years of Milestone releases and even some of the earliest Kino DVDs. Image hasn't issued many silents since 2007, however -- just two "Treasures" sets, a reissue of the Slapstick Encyclopedia, and a Blu-Ray of Phantom of the Opera.

You can also search by year (e.g. <1930), but this approach will exclude compilations.

-HA

You can add Chaplin Essanays Volumes 1 through 3.

David himself is on this site and occasionally posts. Perhaps he would be gracious enough to review your list and provide any missing titles?

Jim

Jim Roots wrote:David himself is on this site and occasionally posts. Perhaps he would be gracious enough to review your list and provide any missing titles?

Jim

I hope so. He's done a service to art and an amazing amount of work. I hope he wins any awards possible.

Rick

Many of the titles above were first put out as laserdiscs, including Nosferatu. For complicated reasons, the supplemental tracks to that disc worked better than when we revamped it for the DVD version.

Rick Lanham wrote:

Jim Roots wrote:David himself is on this site and occasionally posts.

Jim

He's done a service to art and an amazing amount of work.

Rick

Simple fact.

Rick Lanham wrote:

Jim Roots wrote:David himself is on this site and occasionally posts. Perhaps he would be gracious enough to review your list and provide any missing titles?

Jim

I hope so. He's done a service to art and an amazing amount of work.

As the youngsters used to say, "True dat."

Wow, thanks guys for all the info, it really helped. Harold, the Film Aficionado site was exactly what I was looking for. Also, I wish I had know about the Flicker Alley on demand release before I bought my Salome (Nazimova) from amazon... Oh well. Anyone seen Dont Change Your Husband/Golden Chance anywhere reasonable? its going for like $45 right now.....

Rodney wrote:A number of the out-of-print Image titles are now available as "manufacture on demand" DVDs from Flicker Alley.

Thanks, Rodney. Our Manufactured-On-Demand (MOD) titles are available at http://www.flickeralley.com/mod.

Additionally, we announce new MOD titles about once a month in our e-mail newsletter.



I'm afraid the promo code in the above video is no longer available, but it shows a nice montage of clips from our various MOD titles.

BenModel wrote:There was a point in the late 2000's at which Image got out of releasing silents. I recall that AllDay's Becoming Charley Chase set was originally supposed to be released by Image (they'd done AllDay's Langdon set), and then the game changed, and AllDay wound up working out a deal with VCI.

Ben

The All Day Langdon set was Image? News to me.

The All Day Langdon set was thru Facets, I believe. Excellent set.