Princess Nicotine; or, The Smoke Fairy (1909)

[Metropolisforever]

Have you seen this?

It is a very funny and amusing short film from J. Stuart Blackton.

The entire public domain film can be found at http://www.archive.org/details/princess_nicotine_1909.

A part of what's fun about Princess Nicotine today is to watch and try to figure out how the amazing shots were created while limited to early cinematic technology.

I hope this great film is released on DVD.

As of right now, there is no DVD release of this film.

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[Rev. Powell]

Nice find!  Makes you wonder if that was tobacco he was smoking, or something else.  I would welcome a collection of these sorts of silent shorts as well.

[Raffine]

This short is included on the four dvd set Treasures From American Film Archives .

This set was OOP and was fetching close to a thousand bucks on E-Bay a few years ago, but Image rereleased it and now you can find copies for about 40 bucks.

There was a follow-up titled More Treasures From American Film Archives. Both are worth owning if you love early/obscure cinema!

My favorite film included on these sets?

GUS VISSER AND HIS SINGING DUCK (1925), of course!

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwQ6v_nYPMs

Image also release a couple of multi-disc sets titled The Origins of Film which are quite cool, too. The Origins of Fantasy Films and The Origins of Animation are especially good!