MORE TREASURES FROM AMERICAN FILM ARCHIV - DVD-3 DISC SET

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• Genre: Documentary
• Plot: The astonishing vitality and creative range of American motion pictures in their first four decades as seen through films saved by the nation's premier silent-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.; ; PROGRAM 1; • Dickson Experimental Sound Film (ca. 1894, 15 sec.), first surviving sound film.; • Annie Oakley, Buffalo Dance, Bucking Broncho (1894, 1 min.), Buffalo Bill’s Wild West performers.; • The Suburbanite (1904, 9 min.), “sitcom” of New Yorkers in the suburbs.; • The Country Doctor (1909, 14 min.), D.W. Griffith’s tragic masterpiece.; • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1910, 13 min.), earliest surviving film of the Baum novel.; • Admiral Cigarette, Flash Cleaner, Buy An Electric Refrigerator, The Stenographer’s Friend (1897–1926, 10 min.), product ads for theater audiences.; • The Invaders (1912, 41 min.), Thomas Ince Western featuring Lakota Sioux actors.; • The Hazards of Helen (1915, 14 min.), episode 26 from this women’s action series.; • Gretchen the Greenhorn (1916, 58 min.), immigrants, led by Dorothy Gish, thwart counterfeiters.; • The Breath of a Nation (1919, 5 min.), Gregory LaCava cartoon on the first day of prohibition.; • De-Light: Making an Electric Light Bulb (1920, 12 min.); • Skyscraper Symphony (1929, 9 min.), Robert Florey’s avant-garde portrait of Manhattan.; • Greeting by George Bernard Shaw (1928, 5 min.), first talkie of the playwright.; ; PROGRAM 2; • What Happened on Twenty-Third Street, At the Foot of the Flatiron, New York City “Ghetto” Fish Market (1901–1903, 5 min.), Manhattan actualities.; • From Leadville to Aspen (1906, 8 min.), train hold-up film made for railroad-car theaters.; • The “Teddy” Bears (1907, 13 min.), political satire, fairy tale, and puppet animation.; • Children Who Labor (1912, 13 min.), crusading melodrama co-produced by the National Child Labor Committee and the Edison company.; • The Flute of Krishna (1926, 12 min.), first film of a Martha Graham dance and two other experimental color shorts.; • Surviving reel of Lotus Blossom (1921, 12 min.), earliest known film from a Chinese American company.; • Gus Visser and His Singing Duck (ca. 1925, 90 sec.), vaudeville sound film made by Theodore Case.; • Clash of the Wolves (1925, 74 min.), action feature starring the original Rin-Tin-Tin.; • International Newsreel (1926, 13 min.); • Now You’re Talking (1927, 9 min.), instructional cartoon on how to use a telephone.; • There It Is (1928, 19 min), surreal Charley Bowers comedy with animated objects.; • A Bronx Morning (1931, 11 min.), avant-garde documentary by Jay Leyda.; ; PROGRAM 3; • Rip Van Winkle (1896, 4 min.), stage star Joseph Jefferson in eight mutoscopes.; • Mr. Edison at Work in his Chemical Laboratory (1897, 30 sec.); • Life of an American Fireman (1903, 6 min.), documentary drama by Edwin S. Porter.; • Westinghouse Works (1904, 6 min.), on location in America’s largest factory.; • Falling Leaves (1912, 12 min.), family melodrama directed by Alice Guy Blaché.; • Hollywood Promotional Films (1918–1926, 14 min.), teaser for Hands Up, Movie Lovers’ Contest, and a newsreel story on the filming of Greed in Death Valley.; • De Forest Phonofilms (1923–1924, 11 min.), A Few Moments with Eddie Cantor and President Coolidge at the White House in the first talking political spot.; • Inklings (1925, 6 min.), witty visual puns by Dave Fleischer.; • Lady Windermere’s Fan (1925, 89 min.), Ernst Lubitsch’s masterpiece from the Wilde play.; • Cockeyed (ca. 1925, 3 min.), trick photographic views of Manhattan.; • Prologue from The Passaic Textile Strike (1926, 18 min.), docudrama by striking workers to tell their story.; • Tramp, Tramp, Tramp (1926, 4 min.), follow-the-bouncing-ball sing along with Ko-Ko the Clown.; • Zora Neale Hurston’s Fieldwork Footage (1928, 5 min.), scenes of the rural South filmed by the famed novelist.; • Trailers for Six Lost Films (10 min.)
• Runtime: 9:33
• Media Format: Movie