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Lost & found : American treasures from the New Zealand Film Archive

documentary heritage
  • Description

    Drawn from a cache of early American movies found at the New Zealand Film Archive and preserved with the American archival community, this collection presents lost works not seen in decades, including films by major directors such as Alfred Hitchcock and a variety of industrial films, news stories, cartoons, travelogues, serial episodes, previews, and comedies.

  • Place
  • Other Id

    PN 1997 NAT (Library of Congress Call Number)

    83169 (Cat ID)

    154297 (DBTextworks system ID)

    81274 (Presto content ID)

  • Department

Images and documents

Catalogue

  • Object Type
  • Name/Title
    Lost & found : American treasures from the New Zealand Film Archive
  • Primary Maker
  • Contributor/Publisher
    National Film Preservation Foundation
  • Place
  • Production date notes
    c2013
  • Physical Description

    1 DVD-video (approximately 198 minutes) : silent, black & white and colour ; 12 cm + 1 booklet (48 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)

  • Language
    English
  • Level of Current Record
    Bib record
  • Member Object

    1 item in this collection. View all items.

  • Subject Category
  • Content
    Lyman H. Howe's famous ride on a runaway train (1921); 6 minutes / producer, Lyman H. Howe
    Happy-go-luckies (1923); 7 minutes / Fables Pictures, Inc. ; producer, Paul Terry ; animators, Paul Terry (and three others)
    Strong boy (preview) (1929); 42 seconds / Fox Film Corp. ; producer, William Fox ; director, John Ford ; writers, James Kevin McGuinness and two others)
    Upstream (1927); 60 minutes / Fox Film Corp. ; producer, William Fox ; director, John Ford ; writer, Randall H. Faye
    Birth of a hat : the art and mystery of making fur felt hats (ca. 1920); 14 minutes / John B. Stetson Co.
    Love charm (1928); 10 minutes / Colorart Pictures ; producers, Howard C. Brown and Curtis F. Nagel ; director, Howard Mitchell ; writer: Duncan Renaldo
    Won in a cupboard (1914); 13 minutes / Keystone Film Co. ; producer, Mack Sennett ; director, Mabel Normand ; writer, Mabel Normand?
    Active life of Dolly of the dailies : episode 5, "The Chinese fan" (1914); 14 minutes / Thomas A. Edison Inc. ; producer, Walter Edwin ; writer, Acton Davies
    Stories from American newsreels. Co-operative weekly review (1918) ; Selznick news (ca. 1921); 4 minutes) / Selznick Pictures Corp. ; producers, Lewis J. Selznick, Myron Selznick, David O. Selznick
    Andy's stump speech (1924); 22 minutes / Samuel Van Ronkel Productions ; director, Norman Taurog
    Virginian types : Blue Ridge mountaineers (ca. 1926); 2 minutes / Pathe Exchange Co.
    White shadow (1924); 42 minutes / Balcon, Freedman and Saville ; director, Graham Cutts ; assistant director and scenarist, Alfred Hitchcock.
  • Public Access Text

    Title from container spine: Treasures New Zealand. Lost and found : American treasures from the New Zealand Film Archive. American treasures from the New Zealand Film Archive. Originally produced as motion pictures between 1914 and 1929. "Thanks to a multi-year collaboration involving the New Zealand Film Archive, the NFPF, and the largest American nitrate archives, scores of "lost" American silent-era films are being returned to the big screen and shared with new audiences.

    "--Publisher's website. Film notes (in booklet) by Scott Simmon. Special features: Newly recorded music by Michael D. Mortilla and Donald Sosin; music video extra; interactive screens about the films. System details: DVD; NTSC; Dolby digital stereo; region 0 (all regions).

  • Collection Type
    Reading Room
  • Copyright
    All rights reserved
  • Last Update
    19 Dec 2023

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