Treasures III social issues in American film, 1900-1934 /
In the years before World War I, virtually no issue was too controversial to bring to the screen. The first American movies were deeply engaged with society, coming from an era when movies and entertainment were intimately interwoven with public debate. As such, they were shown in commercial movie t...
| Other Authors: | Simmon, Scott., Marks, Martin Miller., American Mutoscope and Biograph Company., Thomas A. Edison, Inc., Essanay Film Manufacturing Co., Universal Film Manufacturing Company., Ford Motion Picture Laboratories., Associated Screen News Ltd., Realart Pictures Corp., Hearst Metrotone News, Inc., Mutual Film Corporation., Kalem Company., Vitagraph Company of America., United States. Extension Service., Pathé Frères (U.S.), Rothacker Film Manufacturing Co., United States Steel Corporation., Biograph Company., General Film Company., National Film Preservation Foundation (U.S.), Image Entertainment (Firm) |
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| Format: | DVD |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
[San Francisco, CA] : Chatsworth, CA :
National Film Preservation Foundation ; Distributed by Image Entertainment,
[2007]
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| Physical Description: |
4 videodiscs (approximately 738 min.) : sound, black and white with color sequences ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (xv, 173 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm) |
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Program 1. The city reformed :
- Black hand /
- American Mutoscope and Biograph Company
- (1906) (11 min.)
- How they rob men in Chicago /
- American Mutoscope and Biograph Company
- (1900) (25 sec.)
- Voice of the violin /
- American Mutoscope and Biograph Company
- (1909) (16 min.)
- Usurer's grip /
- Thomas A. Edison, Inc.
- (1912) (15 min.)
- From the submerged /
- Essanay Film Manufacturing Co.
- (1912) (11 min.)
- Hope : a Red Cross seal story /
- Thomas A. Edison, Inc.
- (1912) (14 min.)
- Cost of carelessness /
- Universal Film Manufacturing Company
- (1913) (13 min.)
- Lights and shadows in a city of a million /
- Ford Motion Picture Laboratories
- (1920) (7 min.)
- 6,000,000 American children
- are not in school /
- Associated Screen News Ltd.
- (1922) (2 min.)
- Soul of youth /
- Realart Pictures Corp.
- (1920) (80 min.)
- A call for help from Sing Sing! /
- Hearst Metrotone News, Inc.
- (1934) (3 min.).
- Program 2. New women :
- Kansas saloon smashers /
- Thomas A. Edison, Inc.
- (1901) (1 min.)
- Why Mr. Nation wants a divorce /
- Thomas A. Edison, Inc.
- (1901) (2 min.)
- Trial marriages /
- American Mutoscope and Biograph Company
- (1907) (12 min.)
- Manhattan Trade School for Girls
- (1911) (16 min.)
- Strong arm squad of the future /
- Mutual Film Corporation
- (1912) (1 min.)
- A lively affair
- (1912) (7 min.)
- A suffragette in spite of himself /
- Thomas A. Edison, Inc.
- (1912) (8 min.)
- On to Washington /
- Universal Film Manufacturing Company
- (1913) (80 sec.)
- Hazards of Helen : Episode 13 "The escape on the fast freight" /
- Kalem Co.
- (1915) (13 min.)
- Where are my children? /
- Universal Film Manufacturing Company
- (1916) (65 min.)
- Courage of the commonplace /
- Vitagraph Company of America
- (1913) (13 min.)
- Poor Mrs. Jones! /
- U.S. Dept. of Agriculture
- (1926) (46 min.)
- Offers herself as bride for $10,000 /
- Hearst Metrotone News, Inc.
- (1931) (2 min.).
- Program 3. Toil and tyranny :
- Uncle Sam and the Bolsheviki-I.W.W. rat /
- Ford Motion Picture Laboratories
- (1919) (40 sec.)
- Crime of carelessness /
- Thomas A. Edison, Inc.
- (1912) (14 min.)
- Who pays? Episode 12, "Toil and tyranny" /
- Pathé Frères
- (1915) (35 min.)
- Surviving reel of
- Labor's reward /
- Rothacker Film Manufacturing Co.
- (1925) (13 min.)
- Listen to some words of wisdom /
- Hearst Metrotone News, Inc.
- (1930) (2 min.)
- Godless girl /
- Pathé
- (1928) (128 min.).
- Program 4. Americans in the making :
- Emigrants landing at Ellis Island /
- Thomas A. Edison, Inc.
- (1903) (2 min.)
- An American in the making /
- United States Steel Corporation
- (1913) (15 min.)
- Ramona /
- Biograph Company
- (1910) (16 min.)
- Redskin /
- Paramount Pictures
- (1929) (82 min.)
- United Snakes of America /
- Ford Motion Picture Laboratories
- (1917) (80 sec.)
- Uncle Sam donates for Liberty Loans /
- Ford Motion Picture Laboratories
- (1919) (75 sec.)
- 100% American
- (1918) (14 min.)
- Bud's recruit /
- General Film Company
- (1918) (26 min.)
- Reawakening /
- Ford Motion Picture Laboratories
- (1919) (10 min.)
- Eight Prohibition newsreels /
- Hearst Metrotone News, Inc.
- (c1923-1933) (13 min.).