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DVD

Lost & found : American treasures from the New Zealand Film Archive

Author

John Ford

Call Number

  • DVD 791.43 L881 (CEN)

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Languages

Silent films with English intertitles and musical scores.

Performers

Various performers.

Publication Information

[San Francisco, CA] : National Film Preservation Foundation, [2013]

Physical Description

1 videodisc (198 minutes) : silent, black & white and color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (48 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

Drawn from a cache of early American movies found at the New Zealand Film Archive and preserved with the American archival community, this collection presents lost works not seen in decades, including films by major directors such as Alfred Hitchcock and a variety of industrial films, news stories, cartoons, travelogues, serial episodes, previews, and comedies.

Notes

Originally produced as individual motion pictures 1914-1929.

Film notes by Scott Simmon.

Special features: Newly recorded music ; interactive screens about the films ; illustrated catalog with film notes and credits.

Contents

  • Lyman H. Howe's famous ride on a runaway train (1921, 6 minutes) / Happy-go-luckies (1923, 7 minutes) / Strong boy (preview) (1929, 42 seconds) / Upstream (1927, 60 minutes) / Birth of a hat : the art and mystery of making fur felt hats (ca. 1920, 14 minutes) / Love charm (1928, 10 minutes) / Won in a cupboard (1914, 13 minutes) / Keystone Film Co. ; producer, Mack Sennett ; director, Mabel Normand ; writer, Mabel Normand?
  • Active life of Dolly of the dailies : episode 5, "The Chinese fan" (1914, 14 minutes) / Stories from American newsreels. Co-operative weekly review (1918) ; Selznick news (ca. 1921, 4 minutes) / Selznick Pictures Corp. ; producers, Lewis J. Selznick, Myron Selznick, David O. Selznick
  • Andy's stump speech (1924, 22 minutes) / Virginian types : Blue Ridge mountaineers (ca. 1926, 2 minutes) / White shadow (1924, 42 minutes)

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