Treasures from American film archives [videorecording] : 50 preserved films / producer, National Film Preservation Foundation ; curator, Scott Simmon ; music curator, Martin Marks.
Simmon, Scott.; Marks, Martin Miller.; National Film Preservation Foundation (U.S.); Image Entertainment (Firm)
2000
PN1993.5.U6 T74 2005
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Title Treasures from American film archives [videorecording] : 50 preserved films / producer, National Film Preservation Foundation ; curator, Scott Simmon ; music curator, Martin Marks.
Edition Encore ed.
ISBN 0974709921
Imprint [San Francisco] : National Film Preservation Foundation ; [Los Angeles] : Encore edition c2000, 2005.
Language English
Language Note Most of the films are silent (with piano accompaniment) or in English; one film is in Yiddish with English subtitles, and another has music with Spanish lyrics.
Description 4 videodiscs (642 min.) : sd., chiefly b&w with some col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 4 booklets .
Call Number PN1993.5.U6 T74 2005
Dewey Decimal Classification 791.4375
Distributor No. NATD0918DVD National Film Preservation Foundation
Summary An anthology of films from 18 American film archives. Films include documentaries, newsreels, the earliest American movies, avant-garde and independent works, pioneering special effects, amateur and home movies, animated and industrial films, and silent movies from the earliest years of motion pictures (1893-1985).
Note "This DVD set is made possible through Treasures of American Film Archives, a Millenium Project supported by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Pew Charitable Trusts and organized by the National Film Preservation Foundation."
The accompanying book contains details about the contents of each disc, including a summary of each film, history and preservation information, and bibliographic references (all of which is also available on screen).
Credits Technical director, Michael Friend ; narrator for "About the Archives", Laurence Fishburne ; piano performed by Martin Marks ; additional music performed by John McKay ... [et al.].
System Details Note DVD, Dolby Digital Stereo.
Added Author Simmon, Scott.
Marks, Martin Miller.
Added Corporate Author National Film Preservation Foundation (U.S.)
Image Entertainment (Firm)
Holdings v.1-v.4
Record Appears in On-Campus Resources > DVDs
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Program 1. The original movie
Early films from the Edison Company. Blacksmithing ; The gay shoe clerk ; Three American beauties
Princess Nicotine, or, The Smoke Fairy
The Confederate ironclad
Hell's hinges
The fall of the House of Usher
From Groucho Marx's home movies
Running around San Francisco for an education
From Tevye
Cologne : from the diary of Ray and Esther
Private Snafu : spies
OffOn.

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

Program 3. The thieving hand
White Fawn's devotion
The Chechahcos
From Japanese-American communities
From Rare aviation films. From The Keystone "Patrician" ; From The Zeppelin "Hindenburg"
We work again
From La valse
The wall
George Dumpson's place.

Program 4. Peepshow kinetoscopes from 1894. Luis Martinetti, contortionist ; Caicedo, king of the slack wire
Interior New York subway, 14th St. to 42nd St.
The land beyond the sunset
I'm insured
Snow White
From Beautiful Japan
From rural life in Maine
The news parade of 1934
The autobiography of a Jeep
From Marian Anderson : the Lincoln Memorial concert.

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