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Digitally remastered with newly recorded music. |
| Description |
1 DVD (182 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (192 pages) |
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United States https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78095330 |
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polychrome |
| Description |
digital |
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optical |
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video file |
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DVD video |
| System Details |
DVD. |
| Note |
Accompanying book contains full credits, descriptions of the films, illustrations, and indexes. |
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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. |
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Part of a boxed set which includes a book called program notes (173 p.) |
| Contents |
Emigrants landing at Ellis Island (1903, 2 min.) -- An American in the making / director/photographer, Carl L. Gregory ; cast, Harry Benham, Ethyle Cooke (1913, 15 min.) -- Ramona: a story of the white man's injustice to the Indian / director, D.W. Griffith ; photographer, G. W. Bitzer ; adapted from the novel by Helen Hunt Jackson ; cast, Mary Pickford, Henry B. Walthall (1910, 16 min.) -- Redskin / director, Victor Schertzinger ; writer, Elizabeth Pickett ; cast, Richard Dix, Gladys Belmont, Tully Marshall (1929, 82 min.) -- The united snakes of America [animated] / Ford Motor Co. (ca. 1917, 80 sec.) -- Uncle Sam donates for liberty loans [animated] / Ford Motor Co. (1919, 75 sec.) -- 100% American / director, Arthur Rosson ; cast, Mary Pickford, Loretta Blake, Monte Blue (1918, 14 min.) -- Bud's recruit / producer/writer, Judge Willis Brown ; director, King Vidor ; cast, Wallis Brennan, Robert Gordon (1918, 25 min.) -- The reawakening / Ford Motor Co. (1919, 10 min.) -- Eight Prohibition newsreels / producer, William Randolph Hearst: Capital stirred by biggest hooch raid (1923) ; Behind the scenes with the bootleggers (1926) ; More bad news for the thirsty (1930) ; Hoover Board's Dry Law report stirs nation (1931) ; Some opinions on Hoover Board's Dry Law report (1931) ; Dry agents still on the job (1932) ; First repeal gin shipped (1933) ; Repeal brings wet flood! (1933) (13 min.) |
| Summary |
The fourth and final 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. |
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Silent films (with music) or in English. |
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Social problems in motion pictures.
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Social problems in motion pictures. |
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Social change in motion pictures.
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Social change in motion pictures. |
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Motion pictures -- Influence.
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Motion pictures.
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Motion pictures -- History.
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History. |
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Immigrants -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Immigrants. |
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United States. |
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20th century |
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Immigrants -- United States -- Drama.
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Drama.
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Indians of North America -- Drama.
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Indians of North America. |
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Public opinion.
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World War (1914-1918) |
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Public opinion. |
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World War, 1914-1918 -- United States -- Drama.
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Prohibition -- United States -- History.
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Prohibition. |
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Ellis Island (N.J. and N.Y.) -- History.
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United States -- Social conditions -- 1865-1918.
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Social conditions. |
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1865-1918 |
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United States -- Social conditions -- 1918-1932.
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| Chronological Term |
1918-1932 |
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Video recordings.
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Video recordings.
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Drama.
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| Added Author |
Simmon, Scott.
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Marks, Martin Miller.
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Gregory, Carl Louis.
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Benham, Harry, 1886-1969.
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Cooke, Ethyle.
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Griffith, D. W. (David Wark), 1875-1948.
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Bitzer, G. W., 1872-1944.
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Jackson, Helen Hunt, 1830-1885.
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Pickford, Mary, 1892-1979.
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Walthall, Henry B. (Henry Brazeale), 1878-1936.
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Schertzinger, Victor.
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Chevalier, Elizabeth Pickett, 1896-1984.
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Dix, Richard, 1893-1949.
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Belmont, Gladys.
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Marshall, Tully, 1864-1943.
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Rosson, Arthur.
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Blake, Loretta.
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Blue, Monte, 1887-1963.
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Brown, Willis.
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Vidor, King, 1894-1982.
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Brennan, Wallis.
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Gordon, Robert, 1895-1971.
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Hearst, William Randolph, 1863-1951.
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Ford Motor Company.
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National Film Preservation Foundation (U.S.)
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Image Entertainment (Firm)
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| Added Title |
Social issues in American film, 1900-1934. Program 4, Americans in the making |
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Americans in the making |
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Emigrants landing at Ellis Island.
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American in the making.
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Ramona: a story of the white man's injustice to the Indian.
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Ramona.
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Redskin.
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United snakes of America.
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Uncle Sam donates for liberty loans.
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100% American.
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One hundred percent American.
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Bud's recruit.
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Reawakening.
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Prohibition newsreels.
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Capital stirred by biggest hooch raid.
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Behind the scenes with the bootleggers.
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More bad news for the thirsty.
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Hoover Board's Dry Law report stirs nation.
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Some opinions on Hoover Board's Dry Law report.
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Dry agents still on the job.
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First repeal gin shipped.
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Repeal brings wet flood!
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| Music No. |
NATD3827DVD National Film Preservation Foundation |
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