vitagraph-smokestack.jpg The smokestack that stands on the former site of the Vitagraph Company silent film studios, established in 1907 in the Midwood section of Brooklyn, is the oldest still-standing monument to the American film industry on the east coast and, possibly, in the country. Prodigiou...

I'm a filmmaker and teacher and for past 2 years I've been working on a project - a kind of 'experimental' documentary about Vitagraph and Vitaphone studios (I live near the historic studio buildings in Brooklyn, NY). I am looking for a few fragments of 35mm (nitrate) films - Vitagraph (1916 or befo...