Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films

Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films

2011/04/03 • Released • English

Documentary
TV Movie
9.0
1h 50m

Overview

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).

Director : N/A

Casts
Baby Peggy

Baby Peggy

Herself

Heather Linville

Herself - Film Preservationist: Academy Film Archive

Mike Mashon

Himself

Michael Pogorzelski

Himself

King Baggot

King Baggot

Himself (archive footage)

Theda Bara

Theda Bara

Herself (archive footage)

Clara Bow

Clara Bow

Herself (archive footage)

Louise Brooks

Louise Brooks

Herself (archive footage)

Lon Chaney

Lon Chaney

Himself (archive footage)

Betty Compson

Betty Compson

Herself (archive footage)

Oliver Hardy

Oliver Hardy

Himself (archive footage)

Emil Jannings

Emil Jannings

Himself (archive footage)

Harry Langdon

Harry Langdon

Himself (archive footage)

Stan Laurel

Stan Laurel

Himself (archive footage)

Winnie Lightner

Winnie Lightner

Herself (archive footage)

Nick Lucas

Nick Lucas

Himself (archive footage)

Victor McLaglen

Victor McLaglen

Himself (archive footage)

Colleen Moore

Colleen Moore

Herself (archive footage)

George Raft

George Raft

Himself (archive footage)

Lawrence Tibbett

Lawrence Tibbett

Himself (archive footage)

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