More treasures from American film archives, 1894-1931 : 50 films by Scott Simmon
More Treasures from American Film Archives, 1894-1931 celebrates the first four decades of American film with fifty films and six previews preserved by the nation's foremost silent film archives: the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, George Eastman House, the Library of Congress, the Museum of Modern Art, and the UCLA Film and Television Archive. See examples of feature-length narratives, serials, cartoons, newsreels, folk life footage, avant-garde works, actuality footage, industrial films, and more. Film scholar Tom Gunning has described early cinema exhibitions as being organized around a series of wonders and sensations, or, as he calls them, attractions. Before the dominance of the narrative feature film, audiences were thrilled by the technology itself, and its ability to reproduce images from life on the screen.
(Each DVD and the book can be checked out seperately.)
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