Bibliograph

Treasures from American film archives, 50 preserved films/, produced by the National Film Preservation Foundation ; curator, Scott Simmon ; music curator, Martin Marks, Program 2

Type

Label

Treasures from American film archives, 50 preserved films/, produced by the National Film Preservation Foundation ; curator, Scott Simmon ; music curator, Martin Marks, Program 2

Language

eng

Characteristic

videorecording

Main title

Treasures from American film archives

Medium

DVD

Oclc number

45184522

Responsibility statement

produced by the National Film Preservation Foundation ; curator, Scott Simmon ; music curator, Martin Marks

Runtime

642

Sub title

50 preserved films/

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 narraged by Laurence Fishburne, and interactive screens about the films and music

Table Of Contents

Program 2. Paper print copyright deposits (Star Theatre; Move on; Dog factory) -- The Lonedale operator -- Her crowning glory -- The toll of the sea -- Accuracy first [excerpt] -- West Virginia documentaries (West Virginia, the state beautiful; One-room schoolhouses) -- Early amateur sound film [excerpt] -- Composition 1 (Themis) -- The Battle of San Pietro -- Negro Leagues baseball -- Battery film

Technique

animation and live action

resource.variantTitle

Fifty preserved films

Classification