Treasures III : Social Issues in American Film, 1900-1934. Program 4, Americans in the Making
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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.
Emigrants landing at Ellis Island (1903, 2 min.) -- An American in the making / director/photographer, Carl L. Gregory ; cast, Harry Benham, Ethyle Cooke (1913, 15 min.) -- Ramona: a story of the white man's injustice to the Indian / director, D.W. Griffith ; photographer, G. W. Bitzer ; adapted from the novel by Helen Hunt Jackson ; cast, Mary Pickford, Henry B. Walthall (1910, 16 min.) -- Redskin / director, Victor Schertzinger ; writer, Elizabeth Pickett ; cast, Richard Dix, Gladys Belmont, Tully Marshall (1929, 82 min.) -- The united snakes of America [animated] / Ford Motor Co. (ca. 1917, 80 sec.) -- Uncle Sam donates for liberty loans [animated] / Ford Motor Co. (1919, 75 sec.) -- 100% American / director, Arthur Rosson ; cast, Mary Pickford, Loretta Blake, Monte Blue (1918, 14 min.) -- Bud's recruit / producer/writer, Judge Willis Brown ; director, King Vidor ; cast, Wallis Brennan, Robert Gordon (1918, 25 min.) -- The reawakening / Ford Motor Co. (1919, 10 min.) -- Eight Prohibition newsreels / producer, William Randolph Hearst: Capital stirred by biggest hooch raid (1923) ; Behind the scenes with the bootleggers (1926) ; More bad news for the thirsty (1930) ; Hoover Board's Dry Law report stirs nation (1931) ; Some opinions on Hoover Board's Dry Law report (1931) ; Dry agents still on the job (1932) ; First repeal gin shipped (1933) ; Repeal brings wet flood! (1933) (13 min.).
The fourth and final 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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LANGUAGE OPTIONS
Silent films (with music) or in English.
PUBLISHED
[Chatsworth, CA] : Image Entertainment [distributor], 2007.
Year Published: 2007
Description: 1 videodisc (182 min.) : si., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (192 p.)
Language: English
Format: DVD
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Simmon, Scott.
Marks, Martin Miller.
Gregory, Carl Louis.
Benham, Harry, 1886-1969.
Cooke, Ethyle.
Griffith, D. W. 1875-1948.
Bitzer, G. W., 1872-1944.
Jackson, Helen Hunt, 1830-1885.
Pickford, Mary, 1892-1979.
Walthall, Henry B. 1878-1936.
Schertzinger, Victor, 1890-1941.
Chevalier, Elizabeth Pickett, 1896-1984.
Dix, Richard, 1894-1949.
Belmont, Gladys.
Marshall, Tully, 1864-1943.
Rosson, Arthur.
Blake, Loretta.
Blue, Monte, 1890-1963.
Brown, Willis.
Vidor, King, 1894-1982.
Brennan, Wallis.
Gordon, Robert, 1895-1971.
Hearst, William Randolph, 1863-1951.
National Film Preservation Foundation (U.S.)
Image Entertainment (Firm)
Ford Motor Company.
SUBJECTS
Immigrants -- Drama.
Native Americans -- Drama.
Indigenous Peoples of North America -- Drama.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Drama.
Short films.
Feature films.
Silent films.
Western films.