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The critically acclaimed MORE TREASURES FROM AMERICAN FILM ARCHIVES, 1894-1931 showcases the astonishing creative range and vitality of American motion pictures in their first four decades through examples preserved by the nation's leading silent-film archives. The 3-DVD box set, with 200-page book, covers the years from 1894 through 1931, when the motion pictures grew from a peepshow curio to the nation's fourth largest industry. This is the period from which fewest American films survive. The programs presents 50 films and 6 previews never before available on good-quality video, from the earliest surviving sound film, produced in 1894 by Thomas Edison's laboratory, to A Bronx Morning (1931), a avant-garde documentary by Jay Leyda. Among the rare works are Clash of the Wolves starring the original Rin-Tin-Tin, the first surviving film of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Ernst Lubitsch's Lady Windermere's Fan, kinetoscopes of Annie Oakley and Thomas Edison, a sing-along with Ko-Ko the Clown, educational shorts on making light bulbs and telephone etiquette, the earliest film of a Martha Graham dance, a cartoon satire on prohibition by Gregory La Cava, and footage of the rural South by novelist Zora Neale Hurston. All films are mastered from the best surviving source material. For an illustrated brochure (PDF file) listing the contents and contributors, use http://www.filmpreservation.org/dvd/more_treasures.pdf. (National Film Preservation Organisation)
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Special features: Commentary by 17 critics, historians, and preservationists, digitally mastered from the finest archival sources, newly recorded musical scores, over 500 interactive screens about the films and music
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Engl. ; Stummfilm mit musikalischer Untermalung ; Stummfilm mit engl. Zwischentiteln und musikalischer Untermalung
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Geschichte 1894-1931
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