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Treasures from American film archives : 50 preserved films
Title
Treasures from American film archives : 50 preserved films / produced by the National Film Preservation Foundation ; curator, Scott Simmon ; music curator, Martin Marks.
ISBN
0974709921
Edition
Encore edition.
Published
United States : Image Entertainment, 2005.
Physical Description
4 videodiscs of 4 (642 min.) : sd., b&w and col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 4 booklets
Notes
Copyright notice on container: National Film Preservation Foundation ; 2000, 2005.
This set was made possible through the support of the Cecil B. DeMille Foundation and Sterling Vineyards.
Each DVD container also holds an illustrated booklet with film notes and credits for the program on that disc.
Most of the films are silent (with piano accompaniment) or in English; one film is in Yiddish with English subtitles, and another has music with Spanish lyrics.
Summary
An anthology of films from American film archives. In addition to rare silent-era features, includes landmark independent and avant-garde works, documentaries and newsreels, earliest American movies, pioneering special effects, one-reel adventures and comedies, cartoons and experimental animation, home movies, travel films from the 1910s, working training films from the 1920s, political ads from the 1930's, and other film types invented during the first four decades of the motion picture. Also contains newly recorded musical scores, essays about the archives narrated by Laurence Fishburne, and interactive screens about the films and music.
Variant and related titles
50 preserved films
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 26, 2006
Performers
Narrator: Laurence Fishburne.
System details note
DVD, Dolby Digital Stereo.
Contents
Program 1. Original movie / directed by Tony Sarg (1922, 8 min.)
Early films from the Edison Company Blacksmithing scene / directed by W.K.L. Dickson (1893, 1 min.) ; Gay shoe clerk / directed by Edwin S. Porter (1903, 1 min.) ; Three American beauties / directed by Edwin S. Porter (1906, 1 min.)
Princess Nicotine; or the Smoke Fairy / directed by Stuart J. Blackton (1909, 5 min.)
Confederate ironclad / directed by Kenean Buel (1912, 16 min.)
Hell's hinges / directed by Charles Swickard (1916, 64 min.)
Fall of the House of Usher / directed by James Sibley Watson (1928, 13 min.)
Groucho Marx's home movies [excerpt] (1933, 2 min.)
Running around San Francisco for an education (1938, 2 min.)
Tevye [excerpt] / directed by Maurice Schwartz (1939, 17 min.)
Cologne: from the dairy of Ray and Esther / directed by Raymond Dowidat and Esther Raymond (1939, 14 min.)
Private Snafu: "Spies" / directed by Charles M. Jones (1943, 4 min.)
OffOn / directed by Scott Bartlett (1968, 9 min.).
Program 2. Paper print copyright deposits. Star Theatre / directed by F.S. Armitage (1901, 2 min.) ; Move on / directed by Alfred C. Abadie (1903, 1 min.) ; Dog factory) / directed by Edwin S. Porter (1904, 4 min.)
Lonedale operator / directed by D.W. Griffith (1911, 17 min.)
Her crowning glory / directed by Larry Trimble (?) (1911, 14 min.)
Toll of the sea / directed by chester M. Franklin (1922, 54 min.)
Accuracy first [excerpt] (1928, 5 min.)
West Virginia documentaries. West Virginia, the state beautiful / directed by Ottis Snodgrad (1929, 8 min.) ; One-room schoolhouses) / directed by Karl Myers (1935, 1 min.)
Early amateur sound film [excerpt] / directed by Archie Stewart (1936-1937, 4 min.)
Composition 1 (Themis) / directed by Dwinell Grant (1940, 4 min.)
Battle of San Pietro / directed by John Huston (1945, 33 min.)
Negro Leagues baseball (1946, 8 min.)
Battery film / directed by R. Protovin and F. Backus (1985, 9 min.).
Program 3. Thieving hand (1908, 5 min.)
White Fawn's devotion / directed by James Young Deer (1910, 11 min.)
Chechahcos / directed by Lewis Moomaw (1924, 86 min.)
Japanese American communities [excerpt] / directed by Sensho Sasaki (1927-1932, 7 min.)
Keystone "Patrician" (1928, 6 min.)
Zeppelin "Hindenburg" (1936, 7 min.)
We work again (1937, 15 min.)
Valse [excerpt] / directed by Carol Lynn (1951, 6 min.)
Wwall / directed by Walter de Hoog (1962, 10 min.)
George Dumpson's place / directed by Ed Emshwiller (1965, 8 min.).
Program 4. Peepshow kinetoscopes from 1894 / ditected by W.K.L. Dickson ; Luise Martinetti, contortionist; Caicedo, king of the slack wire (1894, 1 min.)
Interior New York subway / directed by G.W. Bitzer (1905, 5 min.)
Land beyond the sunset / directed by Harold Shaw (1912, 14 min.)
I'm insured / directed by Harry Palmer (1916, 3 min.)
Snow White / directed by J. Searle Dawley (1916, 63 min.)
Beautiful Japan [excerpt] (1918, 5 min.)
Rural life in Maine [excerpt] / directed by Elizabeth Wright (1930, 12 min.)
News parade of 1934 (1934, 10 min.)
Rose Hobart / directed by Joseph Cornell (1936, 19 min.)
Autobiography of a Jeep / directed by Irving Lerner (1943, 10 min.)
Marian Anderson: The Lincoln Memorial concert [excerpt] (1939, 8 min.).
Videorecording number
NATD0918DVD National Film Preservation Foundation
Subjects
Also listed under
National Film Preservation Foundation (U.S.)
Image Entertainment (Firm)
National Film Preservation Foundation Collection (Library of Congress)
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