19 Feb 2022
In Search of Tomorrow
A nostalgic journey through ’80s Sci-Fi-films, exploring their impact and relevance today, told by the artists who made them and by those who were inspired to turn their visions into reality.
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
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).
Top Billed Cast
Baby Peggy Herself
Heather Linville Herself - Film Preservationist: Academy Film Archive
Mike Mashon Himself
Michael Pogorzelski Himself
King Baggot Himself (archive footage)
Theda Bara Herself (archive footage)
Clara Bow Herself (archive footage)
Louise Brooks Herself (archive footage)
Lon Chaney Himself (archive footage)
Betty Compson Herself (archive footage)
Oliver Hardy Himself (archive footage)
Emil Jannings Himself (archive footage)
Harry Langdon Himself (archive footage)
Stan Laurel Himself (archive footage)
Winnie Lightner Herself (archive footage)
Nick Lucas Himself (archive footage)
Victor McLaglen Himself (archive footage)
Colleen Moore Herself (archive footage)
George Raft Himself (archive footage)
Lawrence Tibbett Himself (archive footage)
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