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Topic: Silent Films Returned to US
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Martin McCaffery
Film God
Posts: 2481
From: Montgomery, AL
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 06-07-2010 08:27 AM
From the NYT:
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A late silent feature directed by John Ford, a short comedy directed by Mabel Normand, a period drama starring Clara Bow and a group of early one-reel westerns are among a trove of long-lost American films recently found in the New Zealand Film Archive.
National Film Preservation Foundation
“The Girl Stage Driver” (1914), with Edna Payne, and other films in the New Zealand trove underline the contribution made by women to early cinema. More Photos »
Some 75 of these movies, chosen for their historical and cultural importance, are in the process of being returned to the United States under the auspices of the National Film Preservation Foundation, the nonprofit, charitable affiliate of the Library of Congress’s National Film Preservation Board. (This writer is a member of the board, and has served on grant panels for the foundation, though none related to the current project.) Chris Finlayson, New Zealand’s minister for arts, culture and heritage, is expected to announce the discovery and the repatriation officially this week.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/07/movies/07silent.html?hpw
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