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Treasures III : : social issues in American film, 1900-1934. Program 1, The city reformed / produced by the National Film Preservation Foundation ; curator, Scott Simmon ; music curator, Martin Marks.
LIBRA DVD 008 310 disc + booklet
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Immigrants--United States--Social conditions--Drama.
- Immigrants.
- Children--United States--Social conditions--Drama.
- Children.
- Juvenile delinquents--United States--Drama.
- Juvenile delinquents.
- School attendance--United States--Drama.
- School attendance.
- Mafia--United States--Drama.
- Mafia.
- Usury--United States--Drama.
- Usury.
- Traffic accidents--United States--Drama.
- Traffic accidents.
- Social conditions.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Melodramas (Motion pictures)
- Short films.
- Feature films.
- Silent films.
- Social problem films.
- Crime films.
- Drama.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (177 min.) : silent, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (192 pages)
- monochrome
- Other Title:
- Treasure three
- City reformed
- Place of Publication:
- [Chatsworth, CA] : Image Entertainment [distributor], 2007.
- Language Note:
- Silent films (with music) or in English.
- System Details:
- DVD, region 0; Dolby Digital stereo., dual layer, NTSC.
- digital
- optical
- stereo
- Dolby
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- The first program in a series of 48 movies that helped change America. During the first decades of the 20th century no issue was too controversial for movies ... from prohibition to abortion, unions, atheism, the vote for women, worker safety, juvenile justice, homelessness and immigration, these films became the catalyst for social change.
- Contents:
- The black hand / producer, Francis J. Marion ; director, Wallace McCutcheon (1906, 11 min.)
- How they rob men in Chicago / producer/director, Wallace McCutcheon (1900, 25 sec.)
- The voice of the violin / director, D.W. Griffith (1909, 16 min.)
- The usurer's grip / director, Bannister Merwin ; writers, Theodora Huntington, Arthur H. Ham (1912, 15 min.)
- From the submerged / director/writer, Theodore Wharton (1912, 11 min.)
- Hope: a Red Cross seal story / director, Charles J. Brabin ; writer, James Oppenheim (1912, 14 min.)
- The cost of carelessness / writer, Eugene C. Clarke (1913, 13 min.)
- Lights and shadows in a city of a million / produced by the Ford Motor Company (1920, 7 min.)
- 6,000,000 American children ... are not in school / producer, Lewis J. Selznick (1922, 2 min.)
- The soul of youth / director, William Desmond Taylor ; writer, Julia Crawford Ivers (1920, 80 min.)
- Excerpts from: Saved by the Juvenile Court / writer, George Creel (1919, 4 min.)
- A call for help from Sing Sing! / producer, William Randolph Hearst (1934, 3 min.)
- Notes:
- Digitally remastered with newly recorded music.
- Accompanying book contains full credits, descriptions of the films, 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.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.
- Contains:
- Black hand
- How they rob men in Chicago
- Voice of the violin
- Usurer's grip
- From the submerged
- Hope: a Red Cross seal story
- Cost of carelessness
- Lights and shadows in a city of a million
- 6,000,000 American children ... are not in school
- Soul of youth
- Saved by the Juvenile Court [Excerpts]
- Call for help from Sing Sing!
- OCLC:
- 180878478
- Publisher Number:
- NATD3827DVD National Film Preservation Foundation (set)
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