Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films

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Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films (2011)

Documentary, TV Movie · 1h 50m

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).

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Cast

Baby Peggy Herself
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Heather Linville Herself - Film Preservationist: Academy Film Archive
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Mike Mashon Himself
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Michael Pogorzelski Himself King Baggot Himself (archive footage) Theda Bara Herself (archive footage) Clara Bow Herself (archive footage) Louise Brooks Herself (archive footage) Lon Chaney Himself (archive footage) Betty Compson Herself (archive footage) Oliver Hardy Himself (archive footage) Emil Jannings Himself (archive footage)

Details

Release date
2011-04-03
Runtime
1h 50m
Genres
Documentary, TV Movie
Original language
EN
Spoken languages
English
Countries
United States of America
Production
Flicker Alley