The Resource Treasures from American film archives : 50 preserved films, produced by the National Film Preservation Foundation ; curated by Scott Simmon ; music curated by Martin Marks, (DVD)
Treasures from American film archives : 50 preserved films, produced by the National Film Preservation Foundation ; curated by Scott Simmon ; music curated by Martin Marks, (DVD)
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- Summary
- An anthology of films from American film archives, including rare silent-era features, landmark independent and avant-garde works, documentaries and newsreels, earliest American movies, pioneering special effects, one-reel adventures and comedies, cartoons and experimental animation, home movies, travel films from the 1910s, working training films from the 1920s, political ads from the 1930's, and other film types invented during the first four decades of the motion picture. Also contains newly recorded musical scores, essays about the archives narrated by Laurence Fishburne, and interactive screens about the films and music
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- Encore ed.
- Extent
- 4 videodiscs (642 min.)
- Note
-
- Title from container
- Copyright: no reg
- Copyright notice on container: National Film Preservation Foundation ; 2000, 2005
- This set was made possible through the support of the Cecil B. DeMille Foundation and Sterling Vineyards
- Films originally produced 1893-1985
- Each DVD container also holds an illustrated booklet with film notes and credits for the program on that disc
- Not viewed
- Sources used: container; accompanying booklets; National Film Preservation Foundation web site
- Contents
-
- Program 1. The original movie (1922, 8 min.) -- Early films from the Edison Company (Blacksmithing scene (1893); The gay shoe clerk (1903); Three American beauties (1906)) (3 min.) -- Princess Nicotine; or the Smoke Fairy (1909, 5 min.) -- The Confederate ironclad (1912, 6 min.) -- Hell's hinges (1916, 64 min.) -- The fall of the House of Usher (1928, 13 min.) -- Groucho Marx's home movies [excerpt] (ca. 1933, 2 min.) -- Running around San Francisco for an education (1938, 2 min.) -- Tevye [excerpt] (1939, 17 min.) -- Cologne: from the dairy of Ray and Esther (1939, 14 min.) -- Private Snafu: "Spies" (1943, 4 min.) -- OffOn (1968, 9 min.)
- Program 2. Paper print copyright deposits (Star Theatre (1901); Move on (1903); Dog factory (1904)) (7 min.) -- The Lonedale operator (1911, 14 min.) -- Her crowning glory (1911, 14 min.) -- The toll of the sea (1922, 54 min.) -- Accuracy first [excerpt] (ca. 1928, 5 min.) -- West Virginia documentaries (West Virginia, the state beautiful (1929); One-room schoolhouses (ca. 1935)) (9 min.) -- Early amateur sound film [excerpt] (1936-37, 4 min.) -- Composition 1 (Themis) (1940, 4 min.) -- The Battle of San Pietro (1945, 33 min.) -- Negro Leagues baseball (1946, 8 min.) -- Battery film (1985, 9 min.)
- Program 3. The thieving hand (1908, 5 min.) -- White Fawn's devotion (1910, 11 min.) -- The Chechahcos (1924, 86 min.) -- Japanese American communities [excerpt] (1927-32, 7 min.) -- Rare aviation films (The Keystone "Patrician" (1928); The Zeppelin "Hindenburg" (1936)) (13 min.) -- We work again (1937, 15 min.) -- La valse [excerpt] (1951, 6 min.) -- The wall (1962, 10 min.) -- George Dumpson's place (1965, 8 min.)
- Program 4. Peepshow kinetoscopes from 1894 (Luise Martinetti, contortionist; Caicedo, king of the slack wire) (1 min.) -- Interior New York subway (1905, 5 min.) -- The land beyond the sunset (1912, 14 min.) -- I'm insured (1916, 3 min.) -- Snow White (1916, 63 min.) -- Beautiful Japan [excerpt] (1918, 15 min.) -- Rural life in Maine [excerpt] (ca. 1930, 12 min.) -- The news parade of 1934 (1934, 10 min.) -- Rose Hobart (1936, 19 min.) -- The autobiography of a Jeep (1943, 10 min.) -- Marian Anderson: The Lincoln Memorial concert [excerpt] (1939, 8 min.)
- Isbn
- 9780974709925
- Label
- Treasures from American film archives : 50 preserved films
- Title
- Treasures from American film archives
- Title remainder
- 50 preserved films
- Statement of responsibility
- produced by the National Film Preservation Foundation ; curated by Scott Simmon ; music curated by Martin Marks
- Title variation
- 50 preserved films
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- An anthology of films from American film archives, including rare silent-era features, landmark independent and avant-garde works, documentaries and newsreels, earliest American movies, pioneering special effects, one-reel adventures and comedies, cartoons and experimental animation, home movies, travel films from the 1910s, working training films from the 1920s, political ads from the 1930's, and other film types invented during the first four decades of the motion picture. Also contains newly recorded musical scores, essays about the archives narrated by Laurence Fishburne, and interactive screens about the films and music
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- Characteristic
- videorecording
- http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/collectionName
- San Pietro (Motion picture)
- Credits note
- Technical director, Michael Friend ; narrator for "About the Archives", Laurence Fishburne ; piano performed by Martin Marks ; additional music performed by John McKay ... [et al.]
- Dewey number
- 791.43/75/09
- Language note
- Mainly silent (with musical accompaniment) or English; one film is in Yiddish with English subtitles; one film has music with Spanish lyrics
- LC call number
-
- DVA 5400 (viewing copy)
- PN1997
- LC item number
- .T7437847 2005
- PerformerNote
- Narrator: Laurence Fishburne
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
-
- Simmon, Scott
- Marks, Martin Miller
- Fishburne, Larry
- National Film Preservation Foundation (U.S.)
- Image Entertainment (Firm)
- National Film Preservation Foundation Collection (Library of Congress)
- Runtime
- 642
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
- Motion pictures
- Technique
- animation and live action
- Label
- Treasures from American film archives : 50 preserved films, produced by the National Film Preservation Foundation ; curated by Scott Simmon ; music curated by Martin Marks, (DVD)
- Note
-
- Title from container
- Copyright: no reg
- Copyright notice on container: National Film Preservation Foundation ; 2000, 2005
- This set was made possible through the support of the Cecil B. DeMille Foundation and Sterling Vineyards
- Films originally produced 1893-1985
- Each DVD container also holds an illustrated booklet with film notes and credits for the program on that disc
- Not viewed
- Sources used: container; accompanying booklets; National Film Preservation Foundation web site
- Accompanying material
- 4 booklets (19 cm.)
- Color
- mixed
- Contents
-
- Program 1. The original movie (1922, 8 min.) -- Early films from the Edison Company (Blacksmithing scene (1893); The gay shoe clerk (1903); Three American beauties (1906)) (3 min.) -- Princess Nicotine; or the Smoke Fairy (1909, 5 min.) -- The Confederate ironclad (1912, 6 min.) -- Hell's hinges (1916, 64 min.) -- The fall of the House of Usher (1928, 13 min.) -- Groucho Marx's home movies [excerpt] (ca. 1933, 2 min.) -- Running around San Francisco for an education (1938, 2 min.) -- Tevye [excerpt] (1939, 17 min.) -- Cologne: from the dairy of Ray and Esther (1939, 14 min.) -- Private Snafu: "Spies" (1943, 4 min.) -- OffOn (1968, 9 min.)
- Program 2. Paper print copyright deposits (Star Theatre (1901); Move on (1903); Dog factory (1904)) (7 min.) -- The Lonedale operator (1911, 14 min.) -- Her crowning glory (1911, 14 min.) -- The toll of the sea (1922, 54 min.) -- Accuracy first [excerpt] (ca. 1928, 5 min.) -- West Virginia documentaries (West Virginia, the state beautiful (1929); One-room schoolhouses (ca. 1935)) (9 min.) -- Early amateur sound film [excerpt] (1936-37, 4 min.) -- Composition 1 (Themis) (1940, 4 min.) -- The Battle of San Pietro (1945, 33 min.) -- Negro Leagues baseball (1946, 8 min.) -- Battery film (1985, 9 min.)
- Program 3. The thieving hand (1908, 5 min.) -- White Fawn's devotion (1910, 11 min.) -- The Chechahcos (1924, 86 min.) -- Japanese American communities [excerpt] (1927-32, 7 min.) -- Rare aviation films (The Keystone "Patrician" (1928); The Zeppelin "Hindenburg" (1936)) (13 min.) -- We work again (1937, 15 min.) -- La valse [excerpt] (1951, 6 min.) -- The wall (1962, 10 min.) -- George Dumpson's place (1965, 8 min.)
- Program 4. Peepshow kinetoscopes from 1894 (Luise Martinetti, contortionist; Caicedo, king of the slack wire) (1 min.) -- Interior New York subway (1905, 5 min.) -- The land beyond the sunset (1912, 14 min.) -- I'm insured (1916, 3 min.) -- Snow White (1916, 63 min.) -- Beautiful Japan [excerpt] (1918, 15 min.) -- Rural life in Maine [excerpt] (ca. 1930, 12 min.) -- The news parade of 1934 (1934, 10 min.) -- Rose Hobart (1936, 19 min.) -- The autobiography of a Jeep (1943, 10 min.) -- Marian Anderson: The Lincoln Memorial concert [excerpt] (1939, 8 min.)
- Control code
- ocm60522750
- Dimensions
- 4 3/4 in. +
- Dimensions
- other
- Edition
- Encore ed.
- Extent
- 4 videodiscs (642 min.)
- Immediate source of acquisition
- National Film Preservation Foundation.
- Isbn
- 9780974709925
- Lccn
- 2006641607
- Medium for sound
- videodisc
- Other control number
- 014381091823
- Other physical details
- sd., b&w and col.
- Publisher number
- NATD0918DVD
- Sound on medium or separate
- sound on medium
- Specific material designation
- videodisc
- System control number
-
- IMGNAT0918D
- (OCoLC)60522750
- System details
- DVD, Dolby Digital stereo
- Video recording format
- DVD
- Label
- Treasures from American film archives : 50 preserved films, produced by the National Film Preservation Foundation ; curated by Scott Simmon ; music curated by Martin Marks, (DVD)
- Note
-
- Title from container
- Copyright: no reg
- Copyright notice on container: National Film Preservation Foundation ; 2000, 2005
- This set was made possible through the support of the Cecil B. DeMille Foundation and Sterling Vineyards
- Films originally produced 1893-1985
- Each DVD container also holds an illustrated booklet with film notes and credits for the program on that disc
- Not viewed
- Sources used: container; accompanying booklets; National Film Preservation Foundation web site
- Accompanying material
- 4 booklets (19 cm.)
- Color
- mixed
- Contents
-
- Program 1. The original movie (1922, 8 min.) -- Early films from the Edison Company (Blacksmithing scene (1893); The gay shoe clerk (1903); Three American beauties (1906)) (3 min.) -- Princess Nicotine; or the Smoke Fairy (1909, 5 min.) -- The Confederate ironclad (1912, 6 min.) -- Hell's hinges (1916, 64 min.) -- The fall of the House of Usher (1928, 13 min.) -- Groucho Marx's home movies [excerpt] (ca. 1933, 2 min.) -- Running around San Francisco for an education (1938, 2 min.) -- Tevye [excerpt] (1939, 17 min.) -- Cologne: from the dairy of Ray and Esther (1939, 14 min.) -- Private Snafu: "Spies" (1943, 4 min.) -- OffOn (1968, 9 min.)
- Program 2. Paper print copyright deposits (Star Theatre (1901); Move on (1903); Dog factory (1904)) (7 min.) -- The Lonedale operator (1911, 14 min.) -- Her crowning glory (1911, 14 min.) -- The toll of the sea (1922, 54 min.) -- Accuracy first [excerpt] (ca. 1928, 5 min.) -- West Virginia documentaries (West Virginia, the state beautiful (1929); One-room schoolhouses (ca. 1935)) (9 min.) -- Early amateur sound film [excerpt] (1936-37, 4 min.) -- Composition 1 (Themis) (1940, 4 min.) -- The Battle of San Pietro (1945, 33 min.) -- Negro Leagues baseball (1946, 8 min.) -- Battery film (1985, 9 min.)
- Program 3. The thieving hand (1908, 5 min.) -- White Fawn's devotion (1910, 11 min.) -- The Chechahcos (1924, 86 min.) -- Japanese American communities [excerpt] (1927-32, 7 min.) -- Rare aviation films (The Keystone "Patrician" (1928); The Zeppelin "Hindenburg" (1936)) (13 min.) -- We work again (1937, 15 min.) -- La valse [excerpt] (1951, 6 min.) -- The wall (1962, 10 min.) -- George Dumpson's place (1965, 8 min.)
- Program 4. Peepshow kinetoscopes from 1894 (Luise Martinetti, contortionist; Caicedo, king of the slack wire) (1 min.) -- Interior New York subway (1905, 5 min.) -- The land beyond the sunset (1912, 14 min.) -- I'm insured (1916, 3 min.) -- Snow White (1916, 63 min.) -- Beautiful Japan [excerpt] (1918, 15 min.) -- Rural life in Maine [excerpt] (ca. 1930, 12 min.) -- The news parade of 1934 (1934, 10 min.) -- Rose Hobart (1936, 19 min.) -- The autobiography of a Jeep (1943, 10 min.) -- Marian Anderson: The Lincoln Memorial concert [excerpt] (1939, 8 min.)
- Control code
- ocm60522750
- Dimensions
- 4 3/4 in. +
- Dimensions
- other
- Edition
- Encore ed.
- Extent
- 4 videodiscs (642 min.)
- Immediate source of acquisition
- National Film Preservation Foundation.
- Isbn
- 9780974709925
- Lccn
- 2006641607
- Medium for sound
- videodisc
- Other control number
- 014381091823
- Other physical details
- sd., b&w and col.
- Publisher number
- NATD0918DVD
- Sound on medium or separate
- sound on medium
- Specific material designation
- videodisc
- System control number
-
- IMGNAT0918D
- (OCoLC)60522750
- System details
- DVD, Dolby Digital stereo
- Video recording format
- DVD
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