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Presenters: Robert Byrne, Martin Koerber, Russell Merritt, Davide Pozzi, Cynthia Walk, and Elzbieta Wysocka RESTORATION REDUX E.A. Dupont’s 1923 feature The Ancient Law, about the son of a rabbi who leaves the shtetl to become an actor, was reconstructed by the Deutsche Kinemathek in 1984 based … [Read more...] about Amazing Tales from the Archives 2018

Presenters: Heather Linville from the Academy Film Archive, Eilf Rongen-Kaynakçi from EYE Filmmuseum, and George Willeman from the Library of Congress "THE WORLD'S MOST TRAVELED GIRL" In the late 1920s Aloha Wanderwell Baker became the first woman to travel around the world by car, deploying her … [Read more...] about Amazing Tales from the Archives 2017

Presenters: Bryony Dixon, Georges Mourier, Janice Simpson, and Emily Wensel Behind the Silver Screen Bryony Dixon, senior curator of silent film for the British Film Institute, returns to present rarely seen short nonfiction films and cine-magazine items about the British film industry in the … [Read more...] about Amazing Tales from the Archives 2016

Presenters: Bryony Dixon, Dan Streible, Ben Burtt and Craig Barron We continue our behind-the-curtain look at the international preservation scene with another edition of our popular Amazing Tales from the Archives program. A NEW LOOK AT AN OLD SNEEZE Fred Ott’s Sneeze was shot in Edison’s … [Read more...] about Amazing Tales from the Archives 2014

A WILD ROOMER, USA, 1926  Charley, a brilliant inventor, has forty-eight hours to make a convincing demonstration of his newest machine in order to collect an inheritance from his father. NOW YOU TELL ONE, USA, 1926 The liars’ club meets to vote on who can tell the most unbelievable story. Along … [Read more...] about The Amazing Charley Bowers

Erich Paul Remark was born a German Catholic in Osnabruck in 1898 and conscripted into the army when he was eighteen. In 1917, he saw a month’s action on the Western Front before being so wounded by shrapnel he was invalided out. Thereafter, he studied to be a teacher and started writing. His first … [Read more...] about All Quiet on the Western Front

The myth, promoted by Walt Disney himself, was that the Disney empire “all began with a mouse.” In fact, according to Walt in Wonderland, Russell Merritt and J.B. Kaufman’s book on the silent films of Walt Disney, it all began with a little girl. The Alice series of silent films starring a … [Read more...] about Alice in Disneyland

Aelita abides. Rarely seen, it’s known mostly from photos featuring oddly-garbed women posing amid disorienting geometric shapes. Foreign distributors saddled it with the embarrassing subtitles “Queen of Mars” or “Revolt of the Robots.” In 1929, Aelita was described by the New York Times as “far … [Read more...] about Aelita Queen of Mars