Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films

Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films (2011)


  • Genre: Documentary, TV Movie
  • Release Date: 2011-04-03
  • User Rating: 9/10 from 1 ratings
  • Runtime: 1h 50min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: Flicker Alley
  • Production Country: United States of America
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Summary

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).

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  • Baby Peggy

    as Herself
  • Heather Linville

    as Herself - Film Preservationist: Academy Film Archive
  • Mike Mashon

    as Himself
  • Michael Pogorzelski

    as Himself
  • King Baggot

    as Himself (archive footage)
  • Theda Bara

    as Herself (archive footage)
  • Clara Bow

    as Herself (archive footage)
  • Louise Brooks

    as Herself (archive footage)
  • Lon Chaney

    as Himself (archive footage)
  • Betty Compson

    as Herself (archive footage)
  • Oliver Hardy

    as Himself (archive footage)
  • Emil Jannings

    as Himself (archive footage)
  • Harry Langdon

    as Himself (archive footage)
  • Stan Laurel

    as Himself (archive footage)
  • Winnie Lightner

    as Herself (archive footage)
  • Nick Lucas

    as Himself (archive footage)
  • Victor McLaglen

    as Himself (archive footage)
  • Colleen Moore

    as Herself (archive footage)
  • George Raft

    as Himself (archive footage)
  • Lawrence Tibbett

    as Himself (archive footage)

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