5 on 105
(1974),
promotional short for Polaroid’s 105 film, featuring Walker Evans and four other photographers
(2018 Federal Grants).
Play film
The Ace of Hearts
(1921),
starring Lon Chaney in a drama about radical conspirators with murderous plans
(Saving the Silents).
Alba Novella e Ralph Pedi cantando il canzoni il gondoliere ed il tango della gelosia
(1935),
Italian-language short by New Jersey's Rome Film Corporation, featuring two well-known Italian-American singers
(2000 Partnership Grants).
American Aristocracy
(1916),
adventure comedy, written by Anita Loos, pitting Douglas Fairbanks against an international arms smuggler
(Saving the Silents).
American Co-Op Weekly
(ca. 1918),
newsreel featuring stories related to World War I
(New Zealand Project).
Atwater Kent Radio Plant
(1928),
newsreel profile of the Philadelphia facility of the Atwater Kent Manufacturing Company, then the largest radio producer in America
(New Zealand Project).
The Battle of the Sexes
(1928),
D.W. Griffith's late silent drama, photographed by Karl Struss, about a beautiful gold digger who sets her sights on a wealthy family man
(Saving the Silents).
Beasts of the Jungle
(1913),
jungle adventure by Alice Guy-Blaché
(2009 Federal Grants).
The Better Man
(1912),
Western in which a Mexican American outlaw proves himself the better man
(New Zealand Project).
Black Oxen
(1924),
fountain-of-youth melodrama with Corinne Griffith and Clara Bow
(2008 Partnership Grants).
The Blue Bird
(1918),
Maurice Tourneur's atmospheric Christmas fantasy, based on the Maeterlinck play, about two poor children in search of the Blue Bird of Happiness
(Saving the Silents).
Bringin’ Home the Bacon
(1924),
Western feature directed by Richard Thorpe, starring “Buffalo Bill Jr.” and Jean Arthur
(2019 Federal Grants).
By Might of His Right
(1915),
Sidney Drew comedy in which an overtaxed host hatches a plot to rid his household of an obnoxious guest
(New Zealand Project).
Play film
The Call of Her People
(1917),
melodrama starring Ethel Barrymore
(2002 Federal Grants).
The Camera Cure
(1917),
Keystone comedy starring Maude Wayne and Malcolm St. Clair
(2009 Federal Grants).
Can You Beat It?
(1919),
two-reel comedy released by Jester Comedies featuring Dorothy Earle and Flo Bailey
(2004 Partnership Grants).
The Chalk Line
(1916),
one-reeler by the Vim Film Company, starring Rosemary Theby
(2005 Partnership Grants).
Charles Wesley Lee Collection
(1955–60),
footage of the Civil Rights protests near Buffalo, New York, shot by the African American news cameraman
(2010 Federal Grants).
The Clutch of Circumstance
(1918),
silent melodrama starring Corinne Griffith as an actress whose marriage is imperiled by success on Broadway
(2022 Federal Grants).
The Colleen Bawn
(1911),
the surviving reel of an early Sidney Olcott three-reeler, shot on location in Ireland
(Saving the Silents).
The Country Beyond
(1926),
silent melodrama partly filmed in Canada’s Jasper National Park, based on the novel by James Oliver Curwood
(2021 Federal Grants).
Daguerreotype Likenesses
(ca. 1949),
educational film on 19th-century photographic processes by James Card
(2018 Federal Grants).
A Daughter of the Poor
(1917),
comedic romance starring Bessie Love as a downtrodden woman who learns to love the rich
(2003 Partnership Grants).
Defying Destiny
(1923),
melodrama in which a wronged man, played by Monte Blue, changes his appearance through plastic surgery and returns home to reclaim his good name and win his girl
(New Zealand Project).
Play film
Down to the Sea in Ships
(1922),
whaling yarn featuring an early performance by Clara Bow
(2009 Federal Grants).
Drifting
(1923),
Todd Browning’s underworld saga about opium smuggling in China, starring Priscilla Dean, Wallace Beery, and Anna May Wong
(2012 Federal Grants).
Drifting
(1923),
new restoration of Todd Browning’s underworld saga about opium smuggling, featuring Anna May Wong in an early role
(2015 Federal Grants).
The End of the Road
(1919),
one of the first anti-VD films aimed at American women
(2007 Federal Grants).
Eugene O'Neill and John Held in Bermuda
(1925),
fashion photographer Nickolas Muray's home movie of the playwright and cartoonist on holiday
(2001 Federal Grants).
Eyes of Science
(1930),
industrial film by James Sibley Watson, Jr., about the Bausch & Lomb Optical Company
(2005 Federal Grants).
Play film
Fighting Blood
(1911),
D.W. Griffith’s one-reeler about a military family beseiged by Indians
(2001 Federal Grants).
Flowers for Rosie
(1923),
amateur film that premiered at the press conference announcing Kodak’s introduction of 16mm
(2007 Partnership Grants).
Fly Low Jack and the Game
(1927),
romantic narrative by Rochester homemaker Marion Gleason that was used by Kodak to introduce home-moviemaking to the public
(2007 Federal Grants).
Play film
The Girl Ranchers
(1913),
Western comedy produced by the Nestor Film Company
(2008 Federal Grants).
The Golden Chance
(1916),
Cecil B. DeMille's morality tale about an alcoholic husband who plots blackmail when his beautiful wife unwittingly becomes a millionaire's object of affection
(Saving the Silents).
The Gold Rush
(1925),
surviving reel of the only known original tint of a Chaplin feature
(2021 Federal Grants).
Happy-Go-Luckies
(1923),
animated adventures of an odd couple who crash a dog show
(New Zealand Project).
Harvesting War Timber
(1917),
educational film from Bray Studios
(2016 Federal Grants).
His Last Race
(1923),
silent feature starring daredevil rider Rex “Snowy” Baker and his wonderhorse Boomerang, directed by B. Reeves Eason
(2020 Federal Grants).
His Neglected Wife
(ca. 1919),
comedy about a writer’s neglected wife who devises her own story to make her point
(New Zealand Project).
Play film
Historic New York Landmarks of American History
(1913),
educational film from the Kalem Company
(2016 Federal Grants).
Hollywouldn’t
(1925),
film industry satire spoofing a penny-pinching studio and star-struck fans
(2012 Federal Grants).
Play film
Horse Training by Experts
(1918),
educational film from Bray Studios
(2016 Federal Grants).
Huckleberry Finn
(1920),
William Desmond Taylor’s adaptation of Mark Twain’s classic novel
(2006 Federal Grants).
Humdrum Brown
(1918),
surviving reels of Rex Ingram's comedy-drama depicting the adventures of the title character who breaks free from his "humdrum" life
(Treasures of American Film Archives).
I’ll Say He Forgot
(1920),
Malcolm St. Clair’s two-reel comedy about an absent-minded bridegroom
(2014 Federal Grants).
Joan Crawford Home Movies
(1940–41; 1950s),
home movies capturing the Hollywood star with her children and on hunting trips
(2004 Federal Grants).
Play film
Kahlo and Rivera
(1935),
the artists at home with friends, filmed in Mexico by fashion photographer Nickolas Muray
(2001 Federal Grants).
Kindred of the Dust
(1922),
Raoul Walsh melodrama starring Miriam Cooper as an unwed mother returning to her home town
(Saving the Silents).
The Latest Kinks in Canning
(ca. 1917),
industrial film from the Paramount-Bray Pictographs series
(2016 Federal Grants).
Play film
The Light in the Dark
(1922),
melodrama directed by Clarence Brown and produced by Hope Hampton, in which thief Lon Chaney steals the Holy Grail to heal a young accident victim
(2000 Federal Grants).
Llanito
(1971),
Danny Lyon’s documentary about the plight of individuals who are shut out of society because of disability or ethnicity
(2006 Federal Grants).
Local Color
(1977),
Mark Rappaport’s deadpan melodrama about the tangled lives of eight individuals who are caught in a web of interconnected dreams and relationships
(2009 Avant-Garde Masters Grants).
The Love Charm
(1928),
two-color Technicolor romance set in the tropics and filmed by Ray Rennahan
(New Zealand Project).
Love or Justice
(1917),
silent melodrama produced by Thomas Ince, involving a drug-addicted lawyer’s redemption by a woman from the underworld
(2017 Federal Grants).
Play film
Lying Wives
(1925),
independently produced silent melodrama starring Clare Kimball Young as the scheming spouse
(2023 Federal Grants).
Making Cut Glass
(1914),
industrial film from the Kalem Company
(2016 Federal Grants).
Manhattan Madness
(1916),
satire directed by Allen Dwan in which Douglas Fairbanks, returning to New York from the West, shows his "sissified" friends how things are done on the range
(Saving the Silents).
Man in the Moonlight
(1919),
Royal Mounted Police drama about the young sergeant who must postpone his wedding to apprehend his bride's brother
(Saving the Silents).
Manufacture of Paper
(1918),
sponsored film from the International Paper Company
(2016 Federal Grants).
The Millionaire Vagrant
(1917),
silent feature about a millionaire who decides to live on six dollars a week, starring Charles Ray, Sylvia Breamer, and John Gilbert
(2021 Federal Grants).
Mozart in Love
(1975),
Mark Rappaport’s experimental feature exploring Mozart’s romantic entanglements with three sisters
(2011 Avant-Garde Masters Grants).
Negatives on Paper: Talbot’s Process
(ca. 1949),
educational film on 19th-century photography by James Card
(2018 Federal Grants).
The Nervous Wreck
(1926),
comedy with Mack Swain and Chester Conklin
(2009 Federal Grants).
Oh Boy!
(1927),
two-reel comedy with the “McDougall Alley Kids” about a rich boy who gets his comeuppance
(New Zealand Project).
Play film
Oh! What a Day!
(1923),
third episode from the live-action series based on the Gumps comic strip by Sidney Smith, filmed at the Lick Amusement Pier in Venice, California, just months before its destruction by fire
(New Zealand Project).
Play film
One Clear Call
(1922),
silent melodrama directed by John Stahl, starring Milton Sills and Henry B. Walthall
(2024 Federal Grants).
Operation Breadbasket
(1969),
actor Robert Culp’s documentary about the Southern Christian Leadership Conference’s program to create jobs for African Americans in Chicago
(2011 Federal Grants).
Play film
Opportunity
(1918),
comedy about a young woman who disguises herself in men's clothing in order to attend a prizefight without her father's permission
(Saving the Silents).
Out of the Fog
(1922),
Kodak film made to demonstrate to George Eastman that the 16mm film format was ready for market
(2007 Partnership Grants).
Paris Green
(1920),
a post-World War I love story about a GI whose friendship with a Parisian woman blossoms into romance when he meets her again in America
(Saving the Silents).
Payroll Pirates
(1920),
western starring Helen Gibson, the pioneering action star of The Hazards of Helen
(2020 Federal Grants).
The Peaceful Dove in War
(ca. 1917),
educational film from the Paramount-Pictographs series
(2016 Federal Grants).
The Penalty
(1920),
silent feature starring Lon Chaney as an underworld mastermind seeking revenge on the man who amputated his legs
(Treasures of American Film Archives).
Phantom of the Opera
(1925),
silent horror classic starring Lon Chaney, here reconstructed with the complete, full-color masked ball
(1999 Partnership Grants).
Poverty to Riches
(1922),
comic tale of “Count Yer Change,” a crook who robs the rich, made by Marion Gleason with an early prototype of Kodak’s 16mm camera
(2007 Partnership Grants).
The Professor’s Painless Cure
(1915),
Vitagraph comedy directed by and starring Sidney Drew
(2005 Partnership Grants).
The Ranger’s Bride
(1910),
one-reel Western starring Gilbert M. “Broncho Billy” Anderson
(2005 Federal Grants).
Reckless Youth
(1922),
drama about a restless convent girl whose fling in high society teaches her a lesson
(New Zealand Project).
Play film
Red Eagle's Love Affair
(1910),
assimilation drama about a Native American who falls in love with a white woman
(2008 Federal Grants).
Roaring Rails
(1924),
railroad western starring Harry Carey, Sr.
(2008 Federal Grants).
The Robson Trail
(ca.1922),
Selznick News travelogue shot in British Columbia
(New Zealand Project).
Salmon Fishery in Alaska
(ca. 1922),
documentary showing the steps in catching and canning salmon, to be preserved as a class project by the students of the L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation
(2012 Federal Grants).
The Scarlet Letter
(1913),
one-reel fragment thought to be the only surviving material from an American feature film using the early Kinemacolor process
(Treasures of American Film Archives).
Screen Letter Box No. 5, No. 6, and No. 7
(1919),
light-hearted Movieland shorts which answer onscreen questions purportedly mailed in by fans
(2013 Federal Grants).
Sherlock Holmes
(1922),
starring John Barrymore as Sir Conan Doyle's famous sleuth, who is caught up in a web of intrigue spun by the evil Moriarty
(Saving the Silents).
Skyscraper Symphony
(1929),
avant-garde celebration of Manhattan by Robert Florey
(Saving the Silents).
A Sleeping Memory
(1917),
Metro Pictures melodrama involving brain surgery, hypnosis, and past lives, based on the E. Phillips Oppenheim novel
(2019 Federal Grants).
The Social Secretary
(1916),
story of sexual harassment and reformation by the husband-and-wife team of director John Emerson and scenarist Anita Loos. This film features an early appearance by Erich von Stroheim, also credited as Assistant Director
(Saving the Silents).
Soc. Sci. 127
(1969),
film by Danny Lyon, capturing a Houston tattoo artist at work
(2006 Federal Grants).
Sowing the Wind
(1920),
melodrama directed by John Stahl about a convent girl who denounces her mother, a notorious gambling queen, and becomes a successful actress
(Saving the Silents).
Sprockets and Splices: A Little Journey to the Source of Film Damage and Poor Presentation
(1923),
tutorial on proper film projection, produced by Famous Players-Lasky
(2018 Federal Grants).
Stronger Than Death
(1920),
melodrama starring Nazimova as a famed dancer who uses her art to thwart a colonial insurrection
(2003 Federal Grants).
The Struggle
(1913),
early Western produced by Thomas Ince, featuring a stagecoach chase filmed by a moving camera
(Saving the Silents).
Thirty Years of Motion Pictures
(1927),
film adaptation of A Million and One Nights (1926), the book about the early movie industry by pioneering producer and publicist Terry Ramsaye
(2013 Federal Grants).
The Tip
(1918),
silent-era short starring comedian Harold Lloyd
(2002 Federal Grants).
Tomato's Another Day/It Never Happened
(1930),
sound film by the American avant-garde pioneer James Sibley Watson, Jr.
(2000 Partnership Grants).
Play film
Tompkin’s Boy Car
(1922),
story of the car built by two Rochester youngsters shot by Rochester homemaker Marion Gleason using one of the earliest 16mm cameras
(2007 Federal Grants).
Torture de Luxe
(ca. 1926),
Pathé Review newsreel story showing how Broadway beauties stay in shape under the tutelage of former heavyweight boxing champion “Philadelphia” Jack O’Brien
(New Zealand Project).
Play film
Training Man Hunters
(1917),
Bray Studios educational film on new crime fighting methods
(2016 Federal Grants).
Treat ’Em Rough
(1919),
silent vehicle for cowboy Tom Mix
(2008 Federal Grants).
Triple Exposure
(ca. 1947),
Kodachrome advertising film made by James Card, George Eastman Museum’s founding curator of motion pictures
(2018 Federal Grants).
A Trip through Japan with the YWCA
(1919),
travelogue by Benjamin Brodsky spotlighting the work of Japanese women
(Film Connection Australia).
Play film
Tropical Nights
(1920),
travelogue capturing the romantic landscapes of the tropics
(New Zealand Project).
Play film
Turn to the Right
(1922),
Rex Ingram's masterpiece of how an unjust accusation changes a Connecticut village
(Treasures of American Film Archives).
The Upheaval
(1916),
feature starring Lionel Barrymore as an honest politician fighting political corruption
(2002 Partnership Grants).
Upstage Trailer
(1926),
preview for the show business drama starring Norma Shearer as a "girl with grit"
(New Zealand Project).
Play film
Verde Canyon and the Cliff Dwellings of Arizona
(ca. 1918),
travelogue from the Essanay Film Manufacturing Company, to be preserved as a class project by the students of the L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation
(2012 Federal Grants).
Virginian Types
(ca. 1926),
newsreel profile, in color, of the Appalachian communities soon to be displaced for Shenandoah National Park
(New Zealand Project).
A Virgin's Sacrifice
(1922),
melodrama starring Corinne Griffith as a young woman seeking refuge from the man claiming to be the father of her child
(Saving the Silents).
The Virtuous Model
(1919),
drama—produced, written and directed by Albert Capellani—about a French sculptor who falls in love with his model
(Saving the Silents).
A Visit to the Largest Copper Smelter in the World
(ca. 1918),
industrial short showing the United Verde Copper Company near Clarkdale, Arizona.
(2012 Federal Grants).
The Voice of the Violin
(1909),
among the earliest D.W. Griffith one-reelers to survive with intertitles
(1998 Partnership Grants).
The Wet Collodion Process
(ca. 1949),
educational film on 19th-century photography by James Card
(2018 Federal Grants).
When Betty Bets
(1917),
only extant film of Broadway actress and singer Marie Cahill, known for her signature song “Under the Bamboo Tree”
(2020 Federal Grants).
The Willow Tree
(1920),
adapted from the stageplay about an unhappy British expatriate who falls in love with a Japanese statue thought to have magical powers
(Saving the Silents).
The Woman Hater
(1910),
early Pearl White vehicle in which a disgruntled suitor, claiming to hate all women, changes his tune after his girlfriend saves him from Indians
(New Zealand Project).
Play film
Yanvallou: Dance of the Snake God Dambala
(1953),
film of a West Indies ritual dance by famed pictorial photographer Fritz Henle
(2007 Partnership Grants).