More Treasures From American Film Archives 1894-1931 – disc 1

50 films and 6 previews never before seen on video

The astonishing vitality and creative range of American motion pictures in their first four decades as seen through films saved by the nation's premier silent-film archives: the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, George Eastman House, the Library of Congress , the Museum of Modern Art, and the UCLA Film and Television Archive.

Including
Ernst Lubitsch's Lady Windermere's Fan Clash of the Wolves starring the original Rin-Tin-Tin First version of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Gretchen the Greenhorn with Dorothy Gish The Invaders with Lakota Sioux actors There It Is, comedy by Charley Bowers Serial episode from The Hazards of Helen Cartoons by Gregory La Cava and the Fleischer brothers Avant-garde masterpieces by Robert Florey and Jay Leyda Martha Graham's The Flute of Krishna Kinetoscopes of Buffalo Bill's Wild West, mutoscopes of Rip Van Winkle, paper prints of New York City The Dickson 1894 Sound Test and talkies with George Bernard Shaw, Eddie Cantor, and President Coolidge Crusading dramas by striking workers and the National Child Labor Committee First surviving Chinese American production Footage of the rural South by Zora Neale Hurston Special-effects, movie contests, and newsreels Early advertising, industrial, and educational films D.W. Griffith's The Country Doctor Falling Leaves by Alice Guy Blache Edwin S. Porter's Life of an American Fireman and The "Teddy" Bears And more...