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Title Treasures from American film archives : 50 preserved films. Program 2 / producer, National Film Preservation Foundation ; curator, Scott Simmon ; music curator, Martin Marks.

Publication Info. San Francisco, Calif. : National Film Preservation Foundation, [2000]
©2000

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 Moore Video  PN1993.5.U6 T74 box 1 pr.2    Available  Ask at Circulation Desk
 Moore Video  PN1993.5.U6 T74 box 1 pr.2  booklet    Available  Ask at Circulation Desk
Description 1 DVD (approximately 164 min.) : silent, sound, black and white, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (137 pages)
United States https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78095330
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Credits Technical director, Michael Friend ; narrator for "About the Archives", Laurence Fishburne.
Contents Paper print copyright deposits (7 min.): Star theatre (1901), Move on (1903), Dog factory (1904) -- The Lonedale operator / directed by D.W. Griffith (1911, 17 min.) -- Her crowning glory (1911, 14 min.) -- The toll of the sea / directed by Chester M. Franklin (1922, 54 min.) -- From Accuracy first (ca. 1928, 5 min.) -- From West Virginia documentaries (9 min.): West Virginia, the state beautiful (1929), One-room schoolhouses (ca. 1935) -- From Early amateur sound film (1936-37, 4 min.) -- Composition 1 (Themis) (1940, 4 min.) -- The Battle of San Pietro / U.S. War Dept. (1945, 33 min.) -- Negro Leagues baseball (1946, 8 min.) -- Battery film (1985, 9 min.).
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.
Summary 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 2 of this 4 part series contains 14 films.
System Details DVD.
Language Silent and sound films.
Genre/Form Motion pictures -- History.
Motion pictures.
Subject History.
Genre/Form Documentary films -- History.
Documentary films.
Short films -- History.
Short films.
Subject Negro leagues -- History.
Negro leagues.
Sound motion pictures -- History.
Sound motion pictures.
San Pietro, Battle of, San Pietro Infine, Italy, 1943.
Battle of San Pietro (San Pietro Infine, Italy : 1943)
World War, 1939-1945 -- Italy.
West Virginia -- Description and travel.
West Virginia.
Genre/Form Video recordings.
Video recordings.
Added Author Simmon, Scott.
Marks, Martin Miller.
Fishburne, Laurence, III, 1961-
Griffith, D. W. (David Wark), 1875-1948.
Franklin, Chester M., 1890-1954.
Simmon, Scott. Preserved: 50 treasures from American film archives.
United States. War Department.
National Film Preservation Foundation (U.S.)
Added Title 50 preserved films. Program 2
Fifty preserved films. Program 2
Preserved: 50 treasures from American film archives.
50 treasures from American film archives.
Fifty treasures from American film archives.
Star theatre.
Move on.
Dog factory.
Lonedale operator.
Her crowning glory.
Toll of the sea.
Accuracy first.
West Virginia documentaries.
West Virginia, the state beautiful.
One-room schoolhouses.
Early amateur sound film.
Composition 1 (Themis)
Battle of San Pietro.
Negro Leagues baseball.
Battery film.
ISBN 061511556X
9780615115566