Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
Watch fragments: surviving pieces of lost films soap2day. 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).
- Genre: Documentary, TV Movie
- Country: United States
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- Cast: Baby Peggy, Heather Linville, Mike Mashon, Michael Pogorzelski, King Baggot, Theda Bara, Clara Bow, Louise Brooks, Lon Chaney, Betty Compson, Oliver Hardy, Emil Jannings, Harry Langdon, Stan Laurel, Winnie Lightner, Nick Lucas, Victor McLaglen, Colleen Moore, George Raft, Lawrence Tibbett,
