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More Treasures from American Film Archives (Disc 1 of 3) (1894-1931)
The astonishing vitality and creative range of American motion pictures in their first four decades as seen through films saved by the nation's premier 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.
Dickson Experimental Sound Film (circa 1894, 15 seconds), first surviving sound film.
Annie Oakley, Buffalo Dance, Bucking Broncho (1894, 1 minute), Buffalo Bill's Wild West performers.
The Suburbanite (1904, 9 minutes), "sitcom" of New Yorkers in the suburbs.
The Country Doctor (1909, 14 minutes), D.W. Griffith's tragic masterpiece.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1910, 13 minutes), earliest surviving film of the Baum novel.
Admiral Cigarette, Flash Cleaner, Buy an Electric Refrigerator, The Stenographer's Friend (1897-1926, 10 minutes), product ads for theater audiences.
The Invaders (1912, 41 minutes), Thomas Ince Western featuring Lakota Sioux actors.
The Hazards of Helen (1915, 14 minutes), episode 26 from this woman's action series.
Gretchen the Greenhorn (1916, 58 minutes), immigrants, led by Dorothy Gish, thwart counterfeiters.
The Breath of a Nation (1919, 5 minutes), Gregoy LaCava cartoon on the first day of prohibition.
De-Light: Making an Electric Light Bulb (1920, 12 minutes).
Skyscraper Symphony (1929, 9 minutes), Robert Florey's avant-garde portrait of Manhattan.
Greeting by George Bernard Shaw (1928, 5 minutes), first talking of the playwright.
More Treasures from American Film Archives (Disc 2 of 3) (1894-1931)
What Happened on Twenty-Third Street, At the Foot of the Flatiron, New York City "Ghetto" Fish Market (1901-1903, 5 minutes), Manhattan actualities.
From Leadville to Aspen (1906, 8 minutes), train hold-up film made for railroad-car theatres.
The "Teddy" Bears (1907, 13 minutes), political satire, fairy tale and puppet animation.
Children Who Labor (1912, 13 minutes), crusading melodrama co-produced by the National Child Labor Commitee and the Edison company.
The Flute of Krishna (1926, 12 minutes), first film of a Martha Graham dance and two other experimental color shorts.
Lotus Blossom (excerpt) (1921, 12 minutes), the surviving reel of the earliest known film from a Chinese-American company.
Guy Visser and His Singing Duck (circa 1925, 90 seconds), vaudeville sound film made by Theodore Case.
Clash of the Wolves (1925, 74 minutes), action feature starring the original Rin-Tin-Tin.
International Newsreel (1926, 13 minutes).
Now You're Talking (1927, 9 minutes), instructional cartoon on how to use a telephone.
There It Is (1928, 19 minutes), surreal Charley Bowers comedy with animated objects.
A Bronx Morning (1931, 11 minutes), avant-garde documentary by Jay Leyda.
More Treasures from American Film Archives (Disc 3 of 3) (1894-1931)
Rip Van Winkle (1896, 4 minutes), stage star Joseph Jefferson in eight mutoscopes.
Mr. Edison at Work in his Chemical Laboratory (1897, 30 seconds).
Life of an American Fireman (1903, 6 minutes), documentary drama by Edwin S. Porter.
Westinghouse Works (1904, 6 minutes), on location in America's largest factory.
Falling Leaves (1912, 12 minutes), family melodrama directed by Alice Guy Blaché.
Hollywood Promotional Films (1918-1926, 14 minutes), teaser for Hands Up, Movie Lovers' Contest and a newsreel on the filming of Greed in Death Valley.
De Forest Phonofilms (1923-1924, 11 minutes), A Few Moments with Eddie Cantor and President Coolidge at the White House in the first talking political spot.
Inklings (1925, 6 minutes), witty visual puns by Dave Fleischer.
Lady Windermere's Fan (1925, 89 minutes), Ernst Lubitsch's masterpiece from the Wilde play.
Cockeyed (circa 1925, 3 minuteds), trick photographic views of Manhattan.
The Passaic Textile Strike (excerpt) (1926, 18 minutes), the prologue from a docudrama by striking workers.
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp (1926, 4 minutes), follow-the-bouncing-ball sing along with Ko-Ko the Clown.
Zora Neale Hurston's Fieldwork Footage (1928, 5 minutes), scenes of the rural South filmed by the famed novelist.
Trailers for six lost films, including The American Venus with Louise Brooks.
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