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Treasures from American film archives [digital videodisc] : 50 preserved films / producer, National Film Preservation Foundation ; curator, Scott Simmon ; music curator, Martin Marks.

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[San Francisco] : National Film Preservation Foundation ; [Los Angeles] : Distributed exclusively by Image Entertainment, c2000.

Motion pictures -- United States -- History.

Motion pictures.

061511556X (program notes)

4 videodiscs (642 min.) : sd., chiefly b&w with some col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (xiii, 137 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)

Program 1. The original movie -- Early films from the Edison Company. Blacksmithing ; The gay shoe clerk ; Three American beauties --Princess Nicotine, or, The Smoke Fairy -- The Confederate ironclad -- Hell's hinges -- The fall of the House of Usher -- From Groucho Marx's home movies -- Running around San Francisco for an education -- From Tevye -- Cologne : from the diary of Ray and Esther -- Private Snafu : spies -- OffOn.

Program 2. Paper print copyright deposits. Demolishing and building up Star Theatre ; Move on ; Dog factory -- The Lonedale operator -- Her crowning glory -- The toll of the sea -- From Accuracy -- From West Virginia documentaries. From West Virginia, the state beautiful ; From One-room schoolhouses -- From Early amateur sound film -- Composition 1 (Themis) -- The battle of San Pietro -- Negro Leagues Baseball -- Battery film.

Program 3. The thieving hand -- White Fawn's devotion -- The Chechahcos -- From Japanese-American communities -- From Rare aviation films. From The Keystone "Patrician" ; From The Zeppelin Hindenburg -- We work again -- From La valse -- The wall -- George Dumpson's place.

Program 4. Peepshow kinetoscopes from 1894. Luis Martinetti, contortionist ; Caicedo, king of the slack wire -- Interior New York subway, 14th St. to 42nd St. -- The land beyond the sunset -- I'm insured -- Snow White -- From Beautiful Japan -- From rural life in Maine -- The news parade of 1934 -- Rose Hobart -- The autobiography of a Jeep -- From Marian Anderson : the Lincoln Memorial concert.

An anthology of films from 18 American film archives. Films include documentaries, newsreels, the earliest American movies, avant-garde and independent works, pioneering special effects, amateur and home movies, animated and industrial films, and silent movies from the earliest years of motion pictures (1893-1985).

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