Can anybody point me to a place where I can get a list of the films on the first two volumes of Treasures From The American Film Archives? Or can you post the list?
Thanks
Danny
Treasures From The American Film Archives
Here is the information from the Worldcat record
Treasures from American film archives :
50 preserved films /
An anthology of films from American film archives. In addition to rare silent-era features, includes landmark independent and avant-garde works, documentaries and newsreels, earliest American movies, pioneering special effects, one-reel adventures and comedies, cartoons and experimental animation, home movies, travel films from the 1910s, working training films from the 1920s, political ads from the 1930's, and other film types invented during the first four decades of the motion picture. Also contains newly recorded musical scores, essays about the archives narrated by Laurence Fishburne, and interactive screens about the films and music.
Contents: Program 1. The original movie -- Early films from the Edison Company (Blacksmithing scene; The gay shoe clerk; Three American beauties) -- Princess Nicotine; or the Smoke Fairy -- The Confederate ironclad -- Hell's hinges -- The fall of the House of Usher -- Groucho Marx's home movies [excerpt] -- Running around San Francisco for an education -- Tevye [excerpt] -- Cologne: from the dairy of Ray and Esther -- Private Snafu: "Spies" -- OffOn.; Program 2. Paper print copyright deposits (Star Theatre; Move on; Dog factory) -- The Lonedale operator -- Her crowning glory -- The toll of the sea -- Accuracy first [excerpt] -- West Virginia documentaries (West Virginia, the state beautiful; One-room schoolhouses) -- Early amateur sound film [excerpt] -- Composition 1 (Themis) -- The Battle of San Pietro -- Negro Leagues baseball -- Battery film.; Program 3. The thieving hand -- White Fawn's devotion -- The Chechahcos -- Japanese American communities [excerpt] -- Rare aviation filmes (The Keystone "Patrician"; The Zeppelin "Hindenburg") -- We work again -- La valse [excerpt] -- The wall -- George Dumpson's place.; Program 4. Peepshow kinetoscopes from 1894 (Luise Martinetti, contortionist; Caicedo, king of the slack wire) -- Interior New York subway -- The land beyond the sunset -- I'm insured -- Snow White -- Beautiful Japan [excerpt] -- Rural life in Maine [excerpt] -- The news parade of 1934 -- Rose Hobart -- The autobiography of a Jeep -- Marian Anderson: The Lincoln Memorial concert [excerpt].
More treasures from American film archives, 1894-1931
50 films /
An anthology of films from American film archives. Includes rare silent-era features, cartoons and animation, documentaries and newsreels, earliest American movies, pioneering sound and color experiments, serial episodes, trailers for lost films, advertisements, avant-garde shorts, ethnographic footage, films of ethnic communities, and other film types invented during the first four decades of the motion picture. Contains 50 films followed by six previews for lost features and serials. Also contains newly recorded musical scores and over 500 interactive screens about the films and music.
Contents: Program 1. Dickson experimental sound film (ca. 1894, 15 sec.) -- Buffalo Bill's wild west (Annie Oakley (1894); Buffalo dance (1894); Bucking broncho (1894)) (1 min.) -- The suburbanite (1904, 9 min.) -- The country doctor (1909, 14 min.) -- The wonderful Wizard of Oz (1910, 13 min.) -- Early advertising films (Admiral Cigarette (1897); Flash Cleaner (ca. 1920); Buy an electric refrigerator (1926); The stenographer's friend (1910) (10 min.) -- The invaders (1912, 41 min.) -- The hazards of Helen. Episode 26 (1915, 14 min.) -- Gretchen the greenhorn (1916, 58 min.) -- The breath of a nation (1919, 6 min.) -- De-light: making an electric light bulb (1920, 12 min.) -- Skyscraper symphony (1929, 9 min.) -- Greetings by George Bernard Shaw (1928, 5 min.).; Program 2. The streets of New York (What happened on Twenty-Third Street (1901); At the foot of the Flatiron (1903); New York City "ghetto" fish market (1903)) (5 min.) -- From Leadville to Aspen (1906, 8 min.) -- The "Teddy" bears (1907, 13 min.) -- Children who labor (1912, 13 min.) -- Early color films (Concerning $1,000 [excerpt] (1916); Exhibition reel of two color film [excerpt] (ca. 1929); The flute of Krishna (1926)) (12 min.) -- Lotus blossom (surviving reel) (1921, 12 min.) -- Gus Visser and his singing duck (ca. 1925, 90 sec.) -- Clash of the wolves (1925, 74 min.) -- International newsreel (1926, 13 min.) -- Now you're talking (1927, 9 min.) -- There it is (1928, 19 min.) -- A Bronx morning (1931, 11 min.).; Program 3. Rip Van Winkle (1896, 4 min.) -- Mr. Edison at work in his chemical laboratory (1897, 30 sec.) -- Life of an American fireman (1903, 6 min.) -- Westinghouse works (1904, 6 min.) -- Falling leaves (1912, 12 min.) -- Hollywood promotional films (Hand's up [exhibitor's reel] (1918); C-V news [filming Greed excerpt] (1923); Movie lovers' contest (1926)) (14 min.) -- De Forest phonofilms (A few moments with Eddie Cantor (ca. 1923); President Coolidge, taken on the White House grounds (1924)) (11 min.) -- Inklings (1925, 6 min.) -- Lady Windermere's fan (1925, 89 min.) -- Cockeyed (ca. 1925, 3 min.) -- The Passaic textile strike (prologue) (1926, 18 min.) -- Tramp, tramp, tramp (1926, 4 min.) -- Zora Neale Hurston's fieldwork footage (1928, 7 min.) -- Trailers for six lost films (In the days of Daniel Boone; The silent flyer; The American Venus; The great Gatsby; Beau Sabreur; The patriot) (1923-1928, 10 min.).
Treasures from American film archives :
50 preserved films /
An anthology of films from American film archives. In addition to rare silent-era features, includes landmark independent and avant-garde works, documentaries and newsreels, earliest American movies, pioneering special effects, one-reel adventures and comedies, cartoons and experimental animation, home movies, travel films from the 1910s, working training films from the 1920s, political ads from the 1930's, and other film types invented during the first four decades of the motion picture. Also contains newly recorded musical scores, essays about the archives narrated by Laurence Fishburne, and interactive screens about the films and music.
Contents: Program 1. The original movie -- Early films from the Edison Company (Blacksmithing scene; The gay shoe clerk; Three American beauties) -- Princess Nicotine; or the Smoke Fairy -- The Confederate ironclad -- Hell's hinges -- The fall of the House of Usher -- Groucho Marx's home movies [excerpt] -- Running around San Francisco for an education -- Tevye [excerpt] -- Cologne: from the dairy of Ray and Esther -- Private Snafu: "Spies" -- OffOn.; Program 2. Paper print copyright deposits (Star Theatre; Move on; Dog factory) -- The Lonedale operator -- Her crowning glory -- The toll of the sea -- Accuracy first [excerpt] -- West Virginia documentaries (West Virginia, the state beautiful; One-room schoolhouses) -- Early amateur sound film [excerpt] -- Composition 1 (Themis) -- The Battle of San Pietro -- Negro Leagues baseball -- Battery film.; Program 3. The thieving hand -- White Fawn's devotion -- The Chechahcos -- Japanese American communities [excerpt] -- Rare aviation filmes (The Keystone "Patrician"; The Zeppelin "Hindenburg") -- We work again -- La valse [excerpt] -- The wall -- George Dumpson's place.; Program 4. Peepshow kinetoscopes from 1894 (Luise Martinetti, contortionist; Caicedo, king of the slack wire) -- Interior New York subway -- The land beyond the sunset -- I'm insured -- Snow White -- Beautiful Japan [excerpt] -- Rural life in Maine [excerpt] -- The news parade of 1934 -- Rose Hobart -- The autobiography of a Jeep -- Marian Anderson: The Lincoln Memorial concert [excerpt].
More treasures from American film archives, 1894-1931
50 films /
An anthology of films from American film archives. Includes rare silent-era features, cartoons and animation, documentaries and newsreels, earliest American movies, pioneering sound and color experiments, serial episodes, trailers for lost films, advertisements, avant-garde shorts, ethnographic footage, films of ethnic communities, and other film types invented during the first four decades of the motion picture. Contains 50 films followed by six previews for lost features and serials. Also contains newly recorded musical scores and over 500 interactive screens about the films and music.
Contents: Program 1. Dickson experimental sound film (ca. 1894, 15 sec.) -- Buffalo Bill's wild west (Annie Oakley (1894); Buffalo dance (1894); Bucking broncho (1894)) (1 min.) -- The suburbanite (1904, 9 min.) -- The country doctor (1909, 14 min.) -- The wonderful Wizard of Oz (1910, 13 min.) -- Early advertising films (Admiral Cigarette (1897); Flash Cleaner (ca. 1920); Buy an electric refrigerator (1926); The stenographer's friend (1910) (10 min.) -- The invaders (1912, 41 min.) -- The hazards of Helen. Episode 26 (1915, 14 min.) -- Gretchen the greenhorn (1916, 58 min.) -- The breath of a nation (1919, 6 min.) -- De-light: making an electric light bulb (1920, 12 min.) -- Skyscraper symphony (1929, 9 min.) -- Greetings by George Bernard Shaw (1928, 5 min.).; Program 2. The streets of New York (What happened on Twenty-Third Street (1901); At the foot of the Flatiron (1903); New York City "ghetto" fish market (1903)) (5 min.) -- From Leadville to Aspen (1906, 8 min.) -- The "Teddy" bears (1907, 13 min.) -- Children who labor (1912, 13 min.) -- Early color films (Concerning $1,000 [excerpt] (1916); Exhibition reel of two color film [excerpt] (ca. 1929); The flute of Krishna (1926)) (12 min.) -- Lotus blossom (surviving reel) (1921, 12 min.) -- Gus Visser and his singing duck (ca. 1925, 90 sec.) -- Clash of the wolves (1925, 74 min.) -- International newsreel (1926, 13 min.) -- Now you're talking (1927, 9 min.) -- There it is (1928, 19 min.) -- A Bronx morning (1931, 11 min.).; Program 3. Rip Van Winkle (1896, 4 min.) -- Mr. Edison at work in his chemical laboratory (1897, 30 sec.) -- Life of an American fireman (1903, 6 min.) -- Westinghouse works (1904, 6 min.) -- Falling leaves (1912, 12 min.) -- Hollywood promotional films (Hand's up [exhibitor's reel] (1918); C-V news [filming Greed excerpt] (1923); Movie lovers' contest (1926)) (14 min.) -- De Forest phonofilms (A few moments with Eddie Cantor (ca. 1923); President Coolidge, taken on the White House grounds (1924)) (11 min.) -- Inklings (1925, 6 min.) -- Lady Windermere's fan (1925, 89 min.) -- Cockeyed (ca. 1925, 3 min.) -- The Passaic textile strike (prologue) (1926, 18 min.) -- Tramp, tramp, tramp (1926, 4 min.) -- Zora Neale Hurston's fieldwork footage (1928, 7 min.) -- Trailers for six lost films (In the days of Daniel Boone; The silent flyer; The American Venus; The great Gatsby; Beau Sabreur; The patriot) (1923-1928, 10 min.).
Danny has of course already answered this question, but I'll just add that if you go to http://www.filmpreservation.org/ and then click on the "DVD Collections" tab, you can then click on the individual sets, and from there you can download a pdf brochure listing the full contents of each set.
Should the NFPF receive funding for a fifth set you can be reassured that plenty of silent films will appear on it.
Should the NFPF receive funding for a fifth set you can be reassured that plenty of silent films will appear on it.