Movie: Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films

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Baby Peggy
Baby Peggy

Herself

Heather Linville
Heather Linville

Herself - Film Preservationist: Academy Film Archive

Mike Mashon
Mike Mashon

Himself

Michael Pogorzelski
Michael Pogorzelski

Himself

King Baggot
King Baggot

Himself (archive footage)

Theda Bara
Theda Bara

Herself (archive footage)

Clara Bow
Clara Bow

Herself (archive footage)

Louise Brooks
Louise Brooks

Herself (archive footage)

Lon Chaney
Lon Chaney

Himself (archive footage)

Betty Compson
Betty Compson

Herself (archive footage)

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    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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    2011-04-03

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