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Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films

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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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What is Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films (2011) about?

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…

Who stars in Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films?

Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films stars Baby Peggy (Herself), Heather Linville (Herself - Film Preservationist: Academy Film Archive), Mike Mashon (Himself), Michael Pogorzelski (Himself), King Baggot (Himself (archive footage)).

How long is Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films?

Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films has a runtime of 1 min and premiered in 2011.

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Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films holds an IMDb rating of 7.6/10. Fans of Documentary, TV Movie are most likely to enjoy it — TasteRay can tell you how well it matches your personal taste.

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