- Description:
- DVD - Region free. viewing copy.
b/w.
fullscreen. sound.
- Notes:
- Program notes available; inquire with desk attendant. Most films also accompanied by optional audio commentary.
Titles
+ Rip Van Winkle
- Director:
- Dickson, W. K. L.
- Running Time:
- Short. 4 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1896
- Genre:
- Fantasy, Early Cinema, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with musical accompaniment.
- Link to:
- AFI catalog
+ Mr. Edison at Work in his Chemical Library
- Director:
- White, James
- Production Co:
- Edison Mfg. Co.
- Running Time:
- Short. 1 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1897
- Genre:
- Industrial, Early Cinema, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with musical accompaniment.
- Link to:
- AFI catalog
+ Life of an American Fireman
- Director:
- Porter, Edwin S.
- Production Co:
- Edison Mfg. Co.
- Running Time:
- Short. 6 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1903
- Genre:
- Early Cinema, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with musical accompaniment. Includes optional audio commentary by Steven Higgins.
- Link to:
- AFI catalog
+ Westinghouse Works
- Director:
- Bitzer, G.W.
- Production Co:
- American Mutoscope and Biograph Co.
- Running Time:
- Short. 6 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1904
- Genre:
- Industrial, Early Cinema, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Three films from the WESTINGHOUSE WORKS series. Silent with musical accompaniment. Includes optional audio commentary by Steven Ross.
+ Falling Leaves
- Director:
- Guy-Blaché, Alice
- Production Co:
- Solax Co.
- Running Time:
- Short. 12 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1912
- Language:
- English intertitles
- Genre:
- Drama, Silent Cinema, Female Directors
- Notes:
- Silent with musical accompaniment. Includes optional audio commentary by Jennifer M. Bean.
+ Hands Up - A Cyclonic Western Serial
- Alternate Title:
- Hands Up
- Director:
- Horne, James W.
- Production Co:
- Astra Film Corporation
- Running Time:
- Short. 7 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1918
- Language:
- English intertitles
- Genre:
- Serial, Western, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Exhibitor’s reel. Silent with musical accompaniment. Includes optional audio commentary by Jennifer M. Bean.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ C-V News [Filming GREED in Death Valley] [Excerpt]
- Director:
- uncredited
- Production Co:
- Vanderbilt Newspapers Inc.
- Running Time:
- Short. 4 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1923
- Language:
- English intertitles
- Genre:
- Newsreel, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with musical accompaniment. Hollywood promotional film about the making of GREED. Includes optional audio commentary by Blaine M. Bartell.
+ Movie Lovers’ Contest #4
- Director:
- uncredited
- Production Co:
- Photoplay, Inc.
- Running Time:
- Short. 3 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- tinted b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1926
- Language:
- English intertitles
- Genre:
- Newsreel, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Early Hollywood promotional film.
+ Few Moments with Eddie Cantor, A
- Director:
- De Forest, Lee
- Production Co:
- De Forest Phonofilms, Inc.
- Running Time:
- Short. 7 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1923
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Performance, With Songs
- Notes:
- Includes optional audio commentary by Donald Crafton.
+ CALvin Coolidge
- Alternate Title:
- President Coolidge, Taken on the White House Grounds
- Director:
- De Forest, Lee
- Running Time:
- Short. 4 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1924
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Newsreel, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Includes optional audio commentary by Donald Crafton.
+ Inklings, Issue 12
- Director:
- Fleischer, Dave
- Production Co:
- Inkwell Studios; Red Seal Pictures Corp.
- Running Time:
- Short. 6 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1925
- Language:
- English intertitles
- Genre:
- Animation, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with musical accompaniment. New music score by Fred Steiner.
+ Lady Windermere’s Fan
- Director:
- Lubitsch, Ernst
- Production Co:
- Warner Bros.
- Running Time:
- Feature. 89 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1925
- Language:
- English intertitles
- Genre:
- Comedy - Drama, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with musical accompaniment. Includes optional audio commentary by Jay Carr.
- Link to:
- FII catalog | AFI catalog
+ Cockeyed: Gems From The Memory Of A Nutty Cameraman
- Director:
- uncredited
- Production Co:
- Pathé Exchange Inc.
- Running Time:
- Short. 3 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- tinted b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1925
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with musical accompaniment. New music score by Brian Robison. Includes optional audio commentary by Paolo Cherchi Usai.
+ Passaic Textile Strike, The [Excerpt]
- Alternate Title:
- The Prologue
- Director:
- Russak, Sam
- Production Co:
- International Workers Aid
- Running Time:
- Feature. 18 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1926
- Language:
- English intertitles
- Genre:
- Propaganda, Melodrama, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with musical accompaniment.
- Link to:
- AFI catalog
+ Tramp, Tramp, Tramp
- Director:
- Fleischer, Dave
- Production Co:
- Inkwell Studios
- Running Time:
- Short. 4 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1924
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Animation, With Songs, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- A Ko-ko song car-tune. Includes optional audio commentary by Donald Crafton.
+ Zora Neale Hurston’s Fieldwork Footage [Excerpt]
- Director:
- Hurston, Zora Neale
- Running Time:
- Short. 7 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1928
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- African - American Interest, Documentary, Ethnographic, Silent Cinema, Female Directors
- Notes:
- Silent with musical accompaniment. Excerpt from raw footage.Includes optional audio commentary by Carla Kaplan.
+ In the Days of Daniel Boone [Trailer]
- Director:
- Craft, William; Messinger, Frank; Marchant, Jay
- Running Time:
- Trailer. 2 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- tinted b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1923
- Language:
- English intertitles
- Genre:
- Western, Serial, Drama - Historical, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with musical accompaniment. Includes optional audio commentary by Jennifer M. Bean, Donald Crafton & Tom Gunning.
+ Silent Flyer, The [Trailer]
- Director:
- Craft, William
- Running Time:
- Trailer. 2 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- tinted b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1926
- Genre:
- Action Adventure, Serial, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with musical accompaniment. Includes optional audio commentary by Jennifer M. Bean, Donald Crafton & Tom Gunning.
+ American Venus, The [Trailer]
- Director:
- Tuttle, Frank
- Running Time:
- Trailer. 2 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1926
- Language:
- English intertitles
- Genre:
- Comedy, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with musical accompaniment. Includes optional audio commentary by Jennifer M. Bean, Donald Crafton & Tom Gunning.
+ Great Gatsby, The [Trailer]
- Director:
- Brenon, Herbert
- Running Time:
- Trailer. 1 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1926
- Language:
- English intertitles
- Genre:
- Drama, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with musical accompaniment. Includes optional audio commentary by Jennifer M. Bean, Donald Crafton & Tom Gunning.
- Link to:
- FII catalog | AFI catalog
+ Beau Sabreur [Trailer]
- Director:
- Waters, John
- Running Time:
- Trailer. 1 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1928
- Language:
- English intertitles
- Genre:
- War, Drama, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with musical accompaniment. Includes optional audio commentary by Jennifer M. Bean, Donald Crafton & Tom Gunning.
+ Patriot, The [Trailer]
- Director:
- Lubitsch, Ernst
- Production Co:
- Paramount Pictures, Inc.
- Running Time:
- Trailer. 3 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1928
- Language:
- English intertitles
- Genre:
- War, Drama - Historical, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with musical accompaniment.
- Link to:
- FII catalog | AFI catalog
