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Treasures 5 presents the American West as it was recorded and imagined in the first decades of motion pictures. Among the 40 selections are Mantrap (1926), the wilderness comedy starring Clara Bow in her favorite role; W.S. Van Dyke’s legendary The Lady of the Dugout (1918), featuring outlaw-turned-actor Al Jennings; Salomy Jane (1914), with America’s first Latina screen celebrity Beatriz Michelena; Gregory La Cava’s sparkling Old West–reversal Womanhandled (1925); Sessue Hayakawa in the cross-cultural drama Last of the Line (1914); one-reelers with Tom Mix and Broncho Billy, Mabel Normand in The Tourists (1912), and dozens of other rarities.
Treasures 5 showcases both narrative and nonfiction films. In addition to early Westerns, fascinating actuality films abound: travelogues from 10 western states including Seeing Yosemite with David A. Curry and the Fred Harvey Company’s The Indian-Detour; Kodachrome home movies; newsreels about Native Americans; and documentaries and industrial films about such Western subjects as cattle ranch-ing in Santa Monica, riding the rails along the Columbia River, how vaqueros made horsehair ropes, the birth of the canned fruit industry, and the beginning of the water wars. There are even vivid docudramas by crime-fighting lawmen: Bill Tilghman restaging his capture of the Wild Bunch and a Texas sheriff reliving his fight against ammunition smuggling on the Mexican border. For full list of films, visit the NFPF Web site, www.filmpreservation.org.
The motion pictures are drawn from the preservation work of the nation's foremost early film archives of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, George Eastman House, the Library of Congress, the Museum of Modern Art, the National Archives, and UCLA Film & Television Archive—and include movies recently repatriated from the New Zealand Film Archive. Many of the films have not been screened in decades. None has been available before in high-quality video.
Customer Reviews
As good as the features are, the real treasures here are the short features that include BRONCHO BILLY AND THE SCHOOLMISTRESS (1912), Biograph's THE TOURISTS (1912) with an 18 year old Mabel Normand, and Thomas Ince's astonishing 1914 pro-Native American drama LAST OF THE LINE (PRIDE OF RACE) with Sessue Hayakawa. In addition to these are recent discoveries from the New Zealand Film Archives, newsreels involving the changing face of the Old West, and the remarkable early color advertisement film SUNSHINE GATHERERS (1921) which showcases sunny California and Del Monte brand canned fruits. It's a history lesson (revisionist in some cases), a cinematic trip back in time to a vanished landscape, and an opportunity to see some well known silent performers early in their careers. As is always the case with the NFPF TREASURES series, the prints are top quality (though not always perfect) with excellent commentary available separately and suitable newly recorded background scores. To top it off there's a 110 page booklet chock full of fascinating details. A must for any film buff especially those of you interested in the history of cinema.
