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

An anthology of films from American film archives. In addition to rare silent-era features, includes cartoons and animation, documentaries and newsreels, earliest American movies, pioneering sound and color experiments, serial episodes, trailers for lost films, advertisements, avant-garde shorts, et...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: National Film Preservation Foundation (U.S.), Image Entertainment (Firm)
Other Authors: Simmon, Scott, Marks, Martin Miller
Format: Video DVD
Language:English
Published: United States : National Film Preservation Foundation : [2004]
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Table of Contents:
  • Program 1. Dickson experimental sound film
  • Annie Oakley, Buffalo dance, Bucking broncho
  • The suburbanite
  • The country doctor
  • The wonderful Wizard of Oz
  • Admiral Cigarette, Flash Cleaner, Buy an electric refrigerator, The stenographer's friend
  • The invaders
  • The hazards of Helen
  • Gretchen the greenhorn
  • The breath of a nation
  • De-light: making an electric light bulb
  • Skyscraper symphony
  • Greetings by George Bernard Shaw.
  • Program 2. 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
  • 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
  • De Forest Phonofilms
  • Inklings
  • Lady Windermere's fan
  • Cockeyed
  • Prologue from The Passaic textile strike
  • Tramp, tramp, tramp
  • Zora Neale Hurston's fieldwork footage
  • Trailers for six lost films.