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Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films (2011)

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).

  • Documentary
  • TV Movie

Top billed cast

  • Photo of Baby PeggyBaby PeggyHerself
  • Photo of Heather LinvilleHeather LinvilleHerself - Film Preservationist: Academy Film Archive
  • Photo of Mike MashonMike MashonHimself
  • Photo of Michael PogorzelskiMichael PogorzelskiHimself
  • Photo of King BaggotKing BaggotHimself (archive footage)
  • Photo of Theda BaraTheda BaraHerself (archive footage)
  • Photo of Clara BowClara BowHerself (archive footage)
  • Photo of Louise BrooksLouise BrooksHerself (archive footage)
  • Photo of Lon ChaneyLon ChaneyHimself (archive footage)
  • Photo of Betty CompsonBetty CompsonHerself (archive footage)

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