Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
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Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films

2011·1 h 50·United States of America
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A documentary story that tends to land well.

Synopsis

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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Cast
Baby Peggy
Baby Peggy
Herself
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Heather Linville
Herself - Film Preservationist: Academy Film Archive
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Mike Mashon
Himself
MP
Michael Pogorzelski
Himself

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