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More Treasures from American Film Archives, 1894-1931: 50 Films.(Video Recording Review)
More Treasures from American Film Archives, 1894-1931: 50 Films. Produced by the National Film Preservation Foundation; curator, Scott Simmon; music curator, Martin Marks. [United States]: Image Entertainment, 2004. DVD. ISBN: 0-97470-991-3. $79.95.
More Treasures from American Film Archives, 1894-1931 is a three-DVD set (nine-and-one-half hours), accompanied by a 200-page book, celebrating the first four decades of American film. It presents fifty films and six previews preserved by the nation's foremost silent 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. With examples of feature-length narratives, serials, cartoons, newsreels, folk life footage, avant-garde works, actuality footage, industrial films, technical experiments in sound and color, and previews, the set showcases the range of film production during this key period and introduces to home audiences and students many works never before available on video.
Silent film was never truly silent and all the films without original sound tracks are presented here with new musical accompaniments created under the direction of ...
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- Magazine article from: Cineaste Hamid, Rahul March 22, 2005 700+ words
...places and august figures. More Treasures From American Film Archives, featuring fifty films never before released on...culled from and restored by the five major U.S. film archives all make up the dazzling spectacle of this box...
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...preservation of their work is the preservation of our collective memory of the past hundred years. Treasures from American Film Archives, a video anthology of fifty films on four digital discs (DVD), is by far the most ambitious anti compelling...
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...academy; call (213) 278-4313 for reference information. American Film Institute, (AFI), 2021 Western Avenue, Los Angeles...viewing rooms. For appointments, write or call the UCLA Film Archives, College of Fine Arts, Room 1438, Melnitz Hall, Los Angeles...
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- Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald Sherman, Paul November 24, 2000 700+ words
...archivists around the country, work that's represented in the fascinating new four-DVD set "Treasures From American Film Archives: 50 Preserved Films" (Image Entertainment, $99.99). The 11-hour set features films that have been preserved...
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Newsreels in Film Archives edited by Roger Smither and Wolfgang Klaue Flicks Books, Wiltshire...stimulating symposium on the subject of "Newsreel Collections in Film Archives." The symposium, organized by Roger Smither and Wolfgang Klaue...