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More treasures from American film archives, 1894-1931 : 50 films

Call Number

  • DVD 791.43 M836 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Chatsworth, CA : Distributed exclusively by Image Entertainment, c2004.

Physical Description

3 videodiscs (573 min.) : sd., b&w and col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (xx, 186 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)

Summary

This anthology of films from American film archives includes rare silent-era features, cartoons and animation, documentaries and newsreels, the earliest American movies, pioneering sound and color experiments, serial episodes, trailers for lost films, advertisements, avant-garde shorts, ethnographic footage, films of ethnic communities, and other film types invented during the first four decades of the motion picture. It contains 50 films followed by six previews for lost features and serials, as well as newly recorded musical scores and over 500 interactive screens about the films and music.

Notes

DVD format ; Dolby digital.

Videodisc release of the 2004 production.

This set was made possible in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

The accompanying book contains full credits, essays by the curators, over 60 illustrations, and indexes.

Not rated.

Contents

  • Program 1. Dickson experimental sound film
  • Buffalo Bill's Wild West. Annie Oakley ; Buffalo dance ; Bucking broncho
  • The suburbanite
  • The country doctor
  • The wonderful Wizard of Oz
  • Early advertising films. Admiral Cigarette ; Flash Cleaner ; Buy an electric refrigerator ; The stenographer's friend
  • The invaders
  • The hazards of Helen, episode 26
  • Gretchen the greenhorn
  • The breath of a nation
  • De-light: making an electric light bulb
  • Skyscraper symphony
  • Greetings by George Bernard Shaw.
  • Program 2. The streets of New York. What happened on Twenty-Third Street ; At the foot of the Flatiron ; New York City "ghetto" fish market
  • From Leadville to Aspen
  • The "Teddy" bears
  • Children who labor
  • Early color films. from Concerning $1,000 ; from Exhibition reel of two color film ; The flute of Krishna
  • Surviving reel of Lotus blossom
  • Gus Visser and his singing duck
  • Clash of the wolves
  • International newsreel
  • Now you're talking
  • There it is
  • A Bronx morning.
  • Program 3. Rip Van Winkle
  • Mr. Edison at work in his chemical laboratory
  • Life of an American fireman
  • Westinghouse works
  • Falling leaves
  • Hollywood promotional films. Exhibitors' reel for Hands up ; from C-V News (filming Greed) ; Movie lovers' contest
  • De Forest Phonofilms. A few moments with Eddie Cantor ; President Coolidge, taken on the White House grounds
  • Inklings
  • Lady Windermere's fan
  • Cockeyed
  • Prologue from The Passaic textile strike
  • Tramp, tramp, tramp
  • from Zora Neale Hurston's fieldwork footage
  • Trailers for six lost films.

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