Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films (2011)
Synopsis
Among the pieces featured in Fragments are the final reel of John Ford's The Village Blacksmith (1922) and a glimpse at Emil Jannings in The Way of All Flesh (1927), the only Oscar®-winning performance in a lost film. Fragments also features clips from such lost films as Cleopatra (1917), starring Theda Bara; The Miracle Man (1919), with Lon Chaney; He Comes Up Smiling (1918), starring Douglas Fairbanks; an early lost sound film, Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929), filmed in early Technicolor, and the only color footage of silent star Clara Bow, Red Hair (1928). The program is rounded out with interviews of film preservationists involved in identifying and restoring these films. Also featured is a new interview with Diana Serra Cary, best known as "Baby Peggy", one of the major American child stars of the silent era, who discusses one of the featured fragments, Darling of New York (1923).
Release Date: 2011-04-03
Runtime: 110 minutes
Top Cast
- Baby Peggy as Herself
- Heather Linville as Herself - Film Preservationist: Academy Film Archive
- Mike Mashon as Himself
- Michael Pogorzelski as Himself
- King Baggot as Himself (archive footage)
- Theda Bara as Herself (archive footage)
- Clara Bow as Herself (archive footage)
- Louise Brooks as Herself (archive footage)
- Lon Chaney as Himself (archive footage)
- Betty Compson as Herself (archive footage)
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