The 50 film collection includes the early Edison films [Dickson Experimental Sound Film] (1895), Annie Oakley (1894), Buffalo Dance (1894) and Bucking Broncho (1894), the Biograph comedy The Suburbanite (1904), The Country Doctor (1909), The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1910), Admiral Cigarette (1897), the advertising films Flash Cleaner, Buy an Electric Refrigerator (1926), and The Stenographer’s Friend (1910), the Ince drama The Invaders (1912), episode 26 from the serial The Hazards of Helen (1915), Gretchen the Greenhorn (1916), cartoon The Breath of a Nation (1919), De-Light: Making an Electric Light Bulb (1920), Robert Florey’s Skyscraper Symphony (1929), Greeting by George Bernard Shaw (1928), What Happened on Twenty-Third Street, New York City (1901), At the Foot of the Flatiron (1903), New York City “Ghetto” Fish Market (1903), From Leadville to Aspen (1906), The “Teddy” Bears (1907), Children Who Labor (1912), The Flute of Krishna (1926), a surviving fragment from Lotus Blossom (1921), an early Case sound film Gus Visser and His Singing Duck (1925), the Rin-Tin-Tin feature film Clash of the Wolves (1925), instructional film Now You’re Talking (1927), the Charley Bowers comedy There It Is (1928), experimental film by Jay Leyda A Bronx Morning (1931), the American Mutoscope films Rip Van Winkle (1896), documentary Mr. Edison at Work in His Chemical Laboratory (1897), Life of an American Fireman (1903), documentary Westinghouse Works (1904), Alice Guy Blaché’s Falling Leaves (1912), teaser trailer for Hands Up (1918), newsreel footage of the production of Greed (1924), the DeForest sound films A Few Minutes with Eddie Cantor (1924) and President Coolidge, Taken on the White House Grounds (1924), cartoon Inklings (1925), the Ernst Lubtisch feature film Lady Windermere’s Fan (1925), Cockeyed (1925), the prologue from The Passaic Textile Strike (1926), Max Fleischer bouncing-ball sing-along film Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, the Boys Are Marching (1926), footage of the southern United States shot by novelist Zora Neale Hurston, plus trailers from six presumed lost films. Silent films are accompanied by music by Peter Child, Brian Robison, Charles Shadle and Fred Steiner. The collection also contains commentary on the films by 17 critics, historians and preservationists, including Paolo Cherchi Usai, Robert Gitt, Tom Gunning and Patrick Loughney.

The set includes a 200-page book of program notes. A number of the films have been available on home video for years, but we expect this collection to present the best available editions of these films.

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Collections and boxsets that contain silent era SHORT DRAMA films.