More treasures from American film archives, 1894-1931 [videorecording] : 50 films / produced by the 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)
2004
PN1993.5.U6 M6552 2004
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Title More treasures from American film archives, 1894-1931 [videorecording] : 50 films / produced by the National Film Preservation Foundation ; curator, Scott Simmon ; music curator, Martin Marks.
Variant Title Title on container spine: More treasures
ISBN 0974709913
Publication Details United States : National Film Preservation Foundation : Distributed exclusively by Image Entertainment, c2004.
Language English
Description 3 videodiscs (573 min.) : sd., b&w and col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (xx, 186 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Item Number 014381227123
Call Number PN1993.5.U6 M6552 2004
Dewey Decimal Classification 791.4375
Distributor No. NATD2271DVD National Film Preservation Foundation
Summary 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, ethnographic footage, films of ethnic communities, and other film types invented during the first four decades of the motion picture. Contains 50 films followed by six previews for lost features and serials. Also contains newly recorded musical scores and over 500 interactive screens about the films and music.
Note This set was made possible in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Accompanying book contains full credits, essays by the curators, over 60 illustrations, and indexes.
Films are from five major film archives: the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, George Eastman House, the Library of Congress, the Museum of Modern Art, and the UCLA Film and Television Archive.
Credits Technical direction, Josef Lindner and Michael Pogorzelski; music scores, Martin Marks.
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.3
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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.

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