Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
2011-04-03 | 110 minutes
Plot 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).
Cast
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Baby PeggyHerself
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King BaggotHimself (archive footage)
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Theda BaraHerself (archive footage)
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Clara BowHerself (archive footage)
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Louise BrooksHerself (archive footage)
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Lon ChaneyHimself (archive footage)
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Betty CompsonHerself (archive footage)
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Oliver HardyHimself (archive footage)
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Emil JanningsHimself (archive footage)
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Harry LangdonHimself (archive footage)
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Stan LaurelHimself (archive footage)
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Winnie LightnerHerself (archive footage)
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Nick LucasHimself (archive footage)
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Victor McLaglenHimself (archive footage)
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Colleen MooreHerself (archive footage)
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George RaftHimself (archive footage)
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Lawrence TibbettHimself (archive footage)
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