Treasures from American film archives : 50 preserved films
(DVD)

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Published
United States : Image Entertainment, 2005.
Format
DVD
Edition
Encore edition.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (642 min.) : sound, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Oliver La Farge - Media
DVD 791.4375 Tre Pt. 1, 1 dvd
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Oliver La Farge - Media
DVD 791.4375 Tre Pt. 2, 1 dvd
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DVD 791.4375 Tre Pt. 3 , 1 dvd
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Published
United States : Image Entertainment, 2005.
Edition
Encore edition.
Language
English

Notes

General Note
Copyright notice on container: National Film Preservation Foundation ; 2000, 2005.
General Note
This set was made possible through the support of the Cecil B. DeMille Foundation and Sterling Vineyards.
General Note
Each DVD container also holds an illustrated booklet with film notes and credits for the program on that disc.
General Note
Sources used: container; accompanying booklets; National Film Preservation Foundation web site.
Participants/Performers
Narrator: Laurence Fishburne.
Description
An anthology of films from American film archives. In addition to rare silent-era features, includes 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 narraged by Laurence Fishburne, and interactive screens about the films and music.
System Details
DVD format, Dolby Digital Stereo.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Received: 5-24-2006;,viewing copy;,gift;,National Film Preservation Foundation.
Language
Most of the films are silent (with piano accompaniment) or in English; one film is in Yiddish with English subtitles, and another has music with Spanish lyrics.

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