Treasures III : : Social Issues in American Film, 1900-1934. Program 1, The City Reformed

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Downtown 1st Floor 1-week checkout	DVD Silent-Film Treasures Disc 1	1-week checkout	Due 04-29-2024

Accompanying book contains full credits, descriptions of the films, illustrations, and indexes.
Films are from five major 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.
The black hand / producer, Francis J. Marion ; director, Wallace McCutcheon (1906, 11 min.) -- How they rob men in Chicago / producer/director, Wallace McCutcheon (1900, 25 sec.) -- The voice of the violin / director, D.W. Griffith (1909, 16 min.) -- The usurer's grip / director, Bannister Merwin ; writers, Theodora Huntington, Arthur H. Ham (1912, 15 min.) -- From the submerged / director/writer, Theodore Wharton (1912, 11 min.) -- Hope: a Red Cross seal story / director, Charles J. Brabin ; writer, James Oppenheim (1912, 14 min.) -- The cost of carelessness / writer, Eugene C. Clarke (1913, 13 min.) -- Lights and shadows in a city of a million / produced by the Ford Motor Company (1920, 7 min.) -- 6,000,000 American children ... are not in school / producer, Lewis J. Selznick (1922, 2 min.) -- The soul of youth / director, William Desmond Taylor ; writer, Julia Crawford Ivers (1920, 80 min.) -- Excerpts from: Saved by the Juvenile Court / writer, George Creel (1919, 4 min.) -- A call for help from Sing Sing! / producer, William Randolph Hearst (1934, 3 min.)
The first program in a series of 48 movies that helped change America. During the first decades of the 20th century no issue was too controversial for movies ... from prohibition to abortion, unions, atheism, the vote for women, worker safety, juvenile justice, homelessness and immigration, these films became the catalyst for social change.
DVD, region 0; Dolby Digital stereo., dual layer, NTSC.

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