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Title:
Lost & found [videorecording] : American treasures from the New Zealand Film Archive.
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[videorecording] :
Publication Information:
[San Francisco, Calif.?] : National Film Preservation Foundation, c2013.
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (approximately 198 minutes) : si., b&w and col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (48 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
General Note:
Title from disc label.

Originally produced as motion pictures between 1914 and 1929.

Film notes (booklet) by Scott Simmon.

Special features: Newly recorded music by Michael D. Mortilla and Donald Sosin; music video extra; interactive screens about the films.
Abstract:
Drawn from a cache of early American movies found at the New Zealand Film Archive and preserved with the American archival community, this collection presents lost works not seen in decades, including films by major directors such as Alfred Hitchcock and a variety of industrial films, news stories, cartoons, travelogues, serial episodes, previews, and comedies.
Variant Title:
Lost and found : American treasures from the New Zealand Film Archive

Title from container spine: Treasures New Zealand

Portion of title: American treasures from the New Zealand Film Archive
Contents:
Lyman H. Howe's famous ride on a runaway train (1921); 6 min. / producer, Lyman H. Howe -- Happy-go-luckies (1923); 7 min. / Fables Pictures, Inc. ; producer, Paul Terry ; animators, Paul Terry ... [et al.] -- Strong boy (preview) (1929); 42 sec. / Fox Film Corp. ; producer, William Fox ; director, John Ford ; writers, James Kevin McGuinness ... [et al.] -- Upstream (1927); 60 min. / Fox Film Corp. ; producer, William Fox ; director, John Ford ; writer, Randall H. Faye -- Birth of a hat : the art and mystery of making fur felt hats (ca. 1920); 14 min. / John B. Stetson Co. -- Love charm (1928); 10 min. / Colorart Pictures ; producers, Howard C. Brown and Curtis F. Nagel ; director, Howard Mitchell ; writer: Duncan Renaldo -- Won in a cupboard (1914); 13 min. / Keystone Film Co. ; producer, Mack Sennett ; director, Mabel Normand ; writer, Mabel Normand? -- Active life of Dolly of the dailies : episode 5, "The Chinese fan" (1914); 14 min. / Thomas A. Edison Inc. ; producer, Walter Edwin ; writer, Acton Davies -- Stories from American newsreels. Co-operative weekly review (1918) ; Selznick news (ca. 1921); 4 min.) / Selznick Pictures Corp. ; producers, Lewis J. Selznick, Myron Selznick, David O. Selznick -- Andy's stump speech (1924); 22 min. / Samuel Van Ronkel Productions ; director, Norman Taurog -- Virginian types : Blue Ridge mountaineers (ca. 1926); 2 min. / Pathé Exchange Co. -- White shadow (1924); 42 min. / Balcon, Freedman and Saville ; director, Graham Cutts ; assistant director and scenarist, Alfred Hitchcock.
Performer:
Cast of Strong boy (preview): Victor McLaglen, Leatrice Joy, Farrell MacDonald, Clyde Cook.

Cast of Upstream: Nancy Nash, Earle Foxe, Grant Withers, Lydia Yeamans Titus, Emile Chautard, Raymond Hitchcock, Francis Ford.

Cast of The love charm: Lucio E. Flama, Jean Mann, Ann Christy.

Cast of Won in a cupboard: Mabel Normand, Charles Inslee, Charles Avery, Alice Davenport, Rube Miller, Hank Mann.

Cast of The active life of Dolly of the dailies: May Fuller, Bessie Learn, Robert Harvey, Harry Linson, Cora Williams.

Cast of Andy's stump speech: Joe Murphy, Fay Tincher, Jack Morgan, James T. Kelley.

Cast of The white shadow: Betty Compson, Clive Brook, Henry Victor, A.B. Imeson, Olaf Hytten, Daisy Campbell, Bert Darley, Maresco Marisini, Donald Searle, Muriel Gregory.
Technical Details:
DVD; NTSC; Dolby digital stereo; region 0 (all regions).
Language:
Silent with English intertitles and musical scores.
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