Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films

Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films (2011)

9.0 110 min Movie
DocumentaryTV Movie

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).

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Cast

Baby Peggy Baby Peggy Herself
Heather Linville Heather Linville Herself - Film Preservationist: Academy Film Archive
Mike Mashon Mike Mashon Himself
Michael Pogorzelski Michael Pogorzelski Himself
King Baggot King Baggot Himself (archive footage)
Theda Bara Theda Bara Herself (archive footage)
Clara Bow Clara Bow Herself (archive footage)
Louise Brooks Louise Brooks Herself (archive footage)
Lon Chaney Lon Chaney Himself (archive footage)
Betty Compson Betty Compson Herself (archive footage)
Oliver Hardy Oliver Hardy Himself (archive footage)
Emil Jannings Emil Jannings Himself (archive footage)

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