- Description:
- DVD - Region 1. viewing copy. 1 videodisc of 1.
b/w.
fullscreen. sound.
- Notes:
- Supplemental material: booklet; audio commentary on select films.
Titles
+ Black Hand, The
- Alternate Title:
- The Black Hand: True Story Of A Recent Occurrence In The Italian Quarter Of New York
- Director:
- McCutcheon, Wallace
- Production Co:
- American Mutoscope and Biograph Co.
- Running Time:
- Short. 11 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1906
- Language:
- English intertitles
- Genre:
- Early Cinema, Crime, Melodrama, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with new music score by Martin Marks. Known as “the earliest surviving Mafia film.” Supplemental material: audio commentary by Tom Gunning.
- Link to:
- AFI catalog
+ How They Rob Men in Chicago
- Alternate Title:
- How They Welcome Strangers In Chicago
- Director:
- McCutcheon, Wallace
- Production Co:
- American Mutoscope and Biograph Co.
- Running Time:
- Short. 0 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1900
- Genre:
- Early Cinema, Crime, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with new music score by Martin Marks. Supplemental material: audio commentary by Tom Gunning.
- Link to:
- AFI catalog
+ Voice of the Violin, The
- Director:
- Griffith, D. W.
- Production Co:
- American Mutoscope and Biograph Co.
- Running Time:
- Short. 16 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1909
- Language:
- English intertitles
- Genre:
- Action Adventure, Drama, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with new music score. Supplemental material: audio commentary by Tom Gunning.
- Link to:
- AFI catalog
+ Usurer’s Grip, The
- Director:
- Merwin, Bannister
- Production Co:
- Thomas A. Edison, Inc.
- Running Time:
- Short. 15 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1912
- Language:
- English intertitles
- Genre:
- Drama, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with new music score. Supplemental material: audio commentary by Lendol Calder.
+ From the Submerged
- Director:
- Wharton, Theodore
- Production Co:
- Essanay Film Mfg. Co.
- Running Time:
- Short. 11 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1912
- Language:
- English intertitles
- Genre:
- Drama, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with new music score. Supplemental material: audio commentary by Richard Abel.
+ Hope - A Red Cross Seal Story
- Director:
- Brabin, Charles J.
- Production Co:
- Thomas A. Edison Inc.
- Running Time:
- Short. 14 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1912
- Language:
- English intertitles
- Genre:
- Drama, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with new music score. Sponsored by The National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis. A story of tuberculosis, then thought of as a “city disease,” reaching a small town. Supplemental material: audio commentary by Jennifer Horne.
+ Cost of Carelessness, The
- Director:
- uncredited
- Production Co:
- Universal Film Mfg. Co.
- Running Time:
- Short. 13 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1913
- Language:
- English intertitles
- Genre:
- Drama, Educational, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with new music score. Sponsored by the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Co. and the Brooklyn Institution for Safety. Warnings about the dangers of automobile and trolley traffic. Supplemental material: audio commentary by Rick Prelinger.
+ Lights and Shadows in a City of a Million
- Director:
- uncredited
- Production Co:
- Ford Motor Co.
- Running Time:
- Short. 7 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1920
- Language:
- English intertitles
- Genre:
- Documentary, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with new music score. A film about the social problems due to overpopulation. Supplemental material: audio commentary by Jennifer Horne.
+ 6,000,000 American Children ... Are Not in School
- Alternate Title:
- Six-Million American Children are Not in School
- Director:
- uncredited
- Production Co:
- Associated Screen News Ltd.
- Running Time:
- Short. 2 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1922
- Language:
- English intertitles
- Genre:
- Newsreel, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with new music score. A newsreel about the problems of school enrollment and child labor.
+ Soul of Youth, The
- Director:
- Taylor, William D.
- Production Co:
- Realart Picture Corp.
- Running Time:
- Feature. 80 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1920
- Language:
- English intertitles
- Genre:
- Melodrama, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with new music score. The mistress of a politician attempts to force him to marry her by passing an infant off as his child. That child grows up in an orphanage and is forced to steal for survival. Supplemental material: audio commentary by Donald Crafton.
+ Saved by the Juvenile Court [excerpts]
- Director:
- Thayer, Otis B.
- Production Co:
- Columbine Film Co.
- Running Time:
- Short. 4 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1913
- Language:
- English intertitles
- Genre:
- Drama, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with new music score.
+ Call for Help from Sing Sing!, A
- Director:
- uncredited
- Production Co:
- Hearst Metrotone News Inc.
- Running Time:
- Short. 3 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1934
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Newsreel, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- A plea to reduce the growing number of imprisoned youth. Supplemental material: audio commentary by Blaine M. Bartell.
