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Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films

Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films

APR 3, 2011 · 110 MIN

DocumentaryTV Movie

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

    Baby Peggy

    Herself

  • Heather Linville

    Herself - Film Preservationist: Academy Film Archive

  • Mike Mashon

    Himself

  • 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)

  • Oliver Hardy

    Oliver Hardy

    Himself (archive footage)

  • Emil Jannings

    Emil Jannings

    Himself (archive footage)

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