Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films (2011)

Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films (2011)

2011-04-03 United States of America 110 Min. PG-13
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Overview

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).

Cast

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