- Description:
- DVD - Region free.   viewing copy.   1 videodisc of 1.
color and b/w.  
fullscreen.   sound.  
- Notes:
- Supplemental materials include: program notes, available at checkout.
Titles
+ Demolishing and Building Up The Star Theatre
- Alternate Title:
- The Star Theatre
- Director:
- Armitage, Frederick S.
- Production Co:
- American Mutoscope; Biograph Co.
- Running Time:
- Short.   1 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1901
- Genre:
- Early Cinema, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with musical accompaniment.
- Link to:
- AFI catalog
+ Move On
- Director:
- Abadie, A. C.
- Production Co:
- Edison Mfg. Co.
- Running Time:
- Short.   1 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1903
- Genre:
- Early Cinema, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with musical accompaniment. Police hustle vendors down the street.
- Link to:
- AFI catalog
+ Dog Factory
- Director:
- Porter, Edwin S.
- Production Co:
- Edison Mfg. Co.
- Running Time:
- Short.   4 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1904
- Genre:
- Early Cinema, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with musical accompaniment. An early special effects film about transforming dogs.
- Link to:
- AFI catalog
+ Lonedale Operator, The
- Director:
- Griffith, D. W.
- Production Co:
- Biograph Co.
- Running Time:
- Short.   17 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- tinted b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1911
- Language:
- English intertitles
- Genre:
- Drama, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with musical accompaniment.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ Her Crowning Glory
- Director:
- Trimble, Larry
- Production Co:
- Vitagraph Co. of America
- Running Time:
- Short.   14 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1911
- Language:
- Silent with musical accompaniment
- Genre:
- Comedy, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with musical accompaniment. With John Bunny, Flora Finch. Director’s name uncertain.
A widower’s unruly child sabotages her father’s wedding with her stern governess.
+ Toll of the Sea, The
- Director:
- Franklin, Chester M.
- Production Co:
- Technicolor Motion Picture Corp.
- Running Time:
- Short.   54 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1922
- Language:
- English intertitles
- Genre:
- Melodrama, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with musical accompaniment. A white American marries a Chinese woman named “Lotus Flower” when he washes up on shore. After he returns to America and his American wife, Lotus Flowers bears his son and kills herself after giving her child to the American.
- Link to:
- FII catalog | AFI catalog
+ Accuracy First [Excerpt]
- Production Co:
- Western Union Co.
- Running Time:
- Short.   5 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1928
- Language:
- English intertitles
- Genre:
- Documentary, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with musical accompaniment. An early corporate training film for telegraph operators.
+ West Virginia, The State Beautiful
- Director:
- Snodgrass, Ottis Rymer
- Running Time:
- Short.   8 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1929
- Language:
- English intertitles
- Genre:
- Documentary, Travelogue, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with musical accompaniment. A documentary tribute to the beauties of West Virginia.
+ One-Room Schoolhouses
- Director:
- Myers, Karl; Myers, Elmer
- Running Time:
- Short.   1 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1935
- Genre:
- Amateur / Home Movie, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with musical accompaniment. A minute-long excerpt taken from footage of rural educational facilities.
+ Early Amateur Sound Film
- Director:
- Stewart, Archie
- Running Time:
- Short.   4 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1936 - 1937
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Amateur / Home Movie
- Notes:
- An early amateur sound film narrated by the filmmaker from behind the camera.
+ Composition No. 1: Themis
- Director:
- Grant, Dwinell
- Running Time:
- Short.   4 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1940
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- Silent with musical accompaniment.
+ Battle of San Pietro, The
- Alternate Title:
- San Pietro
- Director:
- Huston, John
- Production Co:
- Army Historical Service
- Running Time:
- Short.   33 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1945
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Documentary, War
- Notes:
- A combat documentary about the battle of San Pietro.
- Link to:
- FII catalog | AFI catalog
+ Negro Leagues Baseball: Reece “Goose” Tatum, The Indianapolis Clowns, And The Kansas City Monarchs
- Director:
- uncredited
- Running Time:
- Short.   8 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1946
- Genre:
- Documentary
- Notes:
- Documentary footage of the Negro League baseball players. Silent with musical accompaniment.
+ Battery Film
- Director:
- Protovin, Richard; Backus, Franklin
- Running Time:
- Short.   9 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1985
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with musical accompaniment. A portrait of New York City.