Treasures from American film archives : 50 preserved films / producer, National Film Preservation Foundation ; curator, Scott Simmon ; music curator, Martin Marks.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Simmon, Scott.

Marks, Martin Miller

National Film Preservation Foundation (U.S.), producer.

Image Entertainment (Firm), distributor.

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Spanish

Yiddish

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--United States--History.

Motion pictures.

United States.

History.

Genre:

Silent films.

Short films.

Animated films.

Documentary films.

Video recordings.

Physical Description:

4 videodiscs (642 min.) : sound, chiefly black and white with some color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (xiii, 137 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)

Other Title:

50 preserved films

Fifty preserved films

Place of Publication:

[San Francisco] : National Film Preservation Foundation ; [Los Angeles] : Distributed exclusively by Image Entertainment, [2000]

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.

System Details:

DVD; Dolby digital stereo.

digital

optical

stereo

Dolby

video file

DVD video

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).

Contents:

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

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.

Participant:

Narrator for "About the Archives:" Laurence Fishburne.

Credits:

Technical director, Michael Friend; piano performed by Martin Marks; additional music performed by John McKay ... [et al.].

Notes:

"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 Program notes 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).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

061511556X

OCLC:

45184522

Publisher Number:

014381970623