Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films (2011)
1h 50m
Running Time
April 3, 2011Release Date
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films (2011)
1h 50m
Running Time
April 3, 2011Release Date
Plot.
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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Cast & Crew.
Baby Peggy
Self
Heather Linville
Herself - Film Preservationist: Academy Film Archive
King Baggot
Self
Mike Mashon
Himself
Theda Bara
Self
Michael Pogorzelski
Himself
Clara Bow
Self
Randy Haberkamp
Writer
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This Movie Is About.
history of film
film preservation