Treasures 5. The west, 1898-1938

Author

Scott Simmon

Call Number

• DVD 791.4365878 T7843 (CEN)

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Performers

Various performers.

Publication Information

[San Francisco, CA] : National Film Preservation Foundation, [2011]

Physical Description

3 videodiscs (596 minutes) : sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (xxi, 110 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

Celebrated is the dynamic, gender-bending, ethnically diverse West that flourished in early movies. Presented is the American West as it was recorded and imagined in the first decades of motion pictures. "Brings together 40 silent and early sound films--narrative shorts and features, documentaries, promotional films, newsreel stories, and travelogues--showcasing the American West as it was recorded and imagined from 1898 to 1938." -- Booklet, p. viii.

Notes

"40 films"--Container.

Originally produced as individual motion pictures 1898-1938.

Special features: Audio commentary by 23 experts ; newly recorded music.

Contents

• Tourists Sergeant Salomy Jane Sunshine gatherers Deschutes driftwood "promised land" barred to "hoboes" Last of the line Indian-detour Native Americans in newsreels We can take it

• Over silent paths Life on the Circle Ranch in California Broncho Billy and the schoolmistress How the cowboy makes his lariat Mexican filibusters Better man Ammunition smuggling on the Mexican border Lake Tahoe, land of the sky Mantrap Golden West

• Lady of the dugout Passing of the Oklahoma outlaw Girl ranchers Legal advice Womanhandled Beauty spots in America : Castle Hot Springs, Arizona Romance of water New miracle in the desert West in promotional travelogues Sunset Limited, Southern Pacific Railroad Picturesque Colorado Copper mines at Bingham, Utah War bonnet round-up Seeing Yosemite with David A. Curry Geysers of the Yellowstone Trails that lure Little journeys in the National Forests of Colorado