Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films

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).

9

110 min

Cast

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)