More treasures from American film archives, 1894-1931 : 50 films
(DVD Set)

This set was made possible in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Accompanying book (208 p.) contains full credits, essays by the curators, over 60 illustrations, and indexes.

Films are from five major 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.

Technical direction, Josef Lindner and Michael Pogorzelski; music scores, Martin Marks;

An anthology of films from American film archives. In addition to rare silent-era features, includes cartoons and animation, documentaries and newsreels, earliest American movies, pioneering sound and color experiments, serial episodes, trailers for lost films, advertisements, avant-garde shorts, ethnographic footage, films of ethnic communities, and other film types invented during the first four decades of the motion picture. Contains 50 films followed by six previews for lost features and serials. Also contains newly recorded musical scores and over 500 interactive screens about the films and music.

DVD; Dolby digital, stereo.