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Treasures from American film archives [videorecording] : 50 preserved films. Program 4
Title:
Treasures from American film archives [videorecording] : 50 preserved films. Program 4
JLCTITLE245:
[videorecording] : Program 4 / producer, National Film Preservation Foundation ; curator, Scott Simmon ; music curator, Martin Marks.
Publication Information:
San Francisco, Calif. : National Film Preservation Foundation, c2000.
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (ca. 160 min.) : si., sd., b&w, col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (137 p.)
ISBN:
9780615115566
General Note:
The accompanying book titled Preserved: 50 treasures from American film archives by Scott Simmon, contains details about the contents of each disc, including a summary of each film, history and preservation information and bibliographic references.
Abstract:
Audiences associate American film with Hollywood studio productions. This anthology however celebrates other types of early films including documentaries, newsreels, avant-garde and independent works, amateur and home movies, animated and industrial films, and silent movies from the earliest years of motion pictures. Program 4 of this 4 part series contains 12 films.
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Added Title Contained Works:
Preserved: 50 treasures from American film archives.
50 treasures from American film archives.
Fifty treasures from American film archives.
Peepshow kinetoscopes from 1894.
Luis Martinetti, contortionist.
Caicedo, king of the slack wire.
Interior New York subway.
Land beyond the sunset.
I'm insured.
Snow White.
Beautiful Japan.
Rural life in Maine.
News parade of 1934.
Rose Hobart.
Autobiography of a Jeep.
Marian Anderson: the Lincoln memorial concert.
Variant Title:
Fifty preserved films. Program 4
Portion of title: 50 preserved films. Program 4
Contents:
Peepshow kinetoscopes from 1894 (1 min.): Luis Martinetti, contortionist, Caicedo, king of the slack wire -- Interior New York subway (1905, 5 min.) -- The Land beyond the sunset (1912, 14 min.) -- I'm insured (1916, 3 min.) -- Snow White / directed by J. Searle Dawley (1916, 63 min.) -- From Beautiful Japan (1918, 15 min.) -- From Rural life in Maine (ca. 1930, 12 min.) -- News parade of 1934 (10 min.) -- Rose Hobart / directed by Joseph Cornell (1936, 19 min.) -- Autobiography of a Jeep (1943, 10 min.) -- From Marian Anderson: the Lincoln memorial concert (1939, 8 min.).
Credits:
Technical director, Michael Friend ; narrator for "About the Archives", Laurence Fishburne.
Technical Details:
DVD.
Language:
Silent and sound films.