| Description |
4 videodiscs (642 min.) : sound, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in. |
| System Details |
DVD, Dolby Digital Stereo. |
| Language |
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. |
| Note |
Copyright notice on container: National Film Preservation Foundation ; 2000, 2005. |
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Original films 1893-1985. |
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This set was made possible through the support of the Cecil B. DeMille Foundation and Sterling Vineyards. |
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Each DVD container also holds an illustrated booklet with film notes and credits for the program on that disc. |
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Sources used: container; accompanying booklets; National Film Preservation Foundation web site. |
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For specific features see interactive menu. |
| Performer |
Narrator: Laurence Fishburne. |
| 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 narrated by Laurence Fishburne, and interactive screens about the films and music. |
| Contents |
Program 1. The original movie -- Early films from the Edison Company (Blacksmithing scene; 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 -- Groucho Marx's home movies [excerpt] -- Running around San Francisco for an education -- Tevye [excerpt] -- Cologne: from the diary of Ray and Esther -- Private Snafu: "Spies" -- OffOn. |
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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. |
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Program 3. The thieving hand -- White Fawn's devotion -- The Chechahcos -- Japanese American communities [excerpt] -- Rare aviation films [excerpts] (The Keystone "Patrician" ; The Zeppelin "Hindenburg") -- We work again -- La valse [excerpt] -- The wall -- George Dumpson's place. |
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Program 4. Peepshow kinetoscopes from 1894 (Luise Martinetti, contortionist; Caicedo, king of the slack wire) -- Interior New York subway -- The land beyond the sunset -- I'm insured -- Snow White -- Beautiful Japan [excerpt] -- Rural life in Maine [excerpt] -- The news parade of 1934 -- Rose Hobart -- The autobiography of a Jeep -- Marian Anderson: The Lincoln Memorial concert [excerpt]. |
| Subject |
Motion pictures -- United States -- Videodiscs.
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DVDs.
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| Genre |
Silent films.
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Film excerpts.
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Short films.
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Feature films.
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| Added Author |
Simmon, Scott, research.
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Marks, Martin Miller, music.
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Fishburne, Laurence, III, 1961- narration.
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National Film Preservation Foundation (U.S.)
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Image Entertainment (Firm)
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National Film Preservation Foundation Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
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| Added Title |
50 preserved films |
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Fifty preserved films |
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Treasures |
| ISBN |
0974709921 |
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9780974709925 |
| Standard No. |
014381091823 |
| Music No. |
NATD0918DVD National Film Preservation Foundation |
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