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).
Credits
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films Cast
| Name |
Character |
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George Raft
He was 115, 85 years old when he died
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as Himself (archive footage) |
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Stan Laurel
He was 120, 74 years old when he died
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as Himself (archive footage) |
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Oliver Hardy
He was 119, 65 years old when he died
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as Himself (archive footage) |
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Clara Bow
She was 105, 60 years old when she died
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as Herself (archive footage) |
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Lon Chaney
He was 128, 47 years old when he died
|
as Himself (archive footage) |
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Winnie Lightner
She was 111, 71 years old when she died
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as Herself (archive footage) |
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Harry Langdon
He was 126, 60 years old when he died
|
as Himself (archive footage) |
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Lawrence Tibbett
He was 114, 63 years old when he died
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as Himself (archive footage) |
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Baby Peggy
She was 92, now 106 years old
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as Herself |
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Emil Jannings
He was 126, 65 years old when he died
|
as Himself (archive footage) |
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Victor McLaglen
He was 124, 72 years old when he died
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as Himself (archive footage) |
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Theda Bara
She was 125, 69 years old when she died
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as Herself (archive footage) |
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Louise Brooks
She was 104, 78 years old when she died
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as Herself (archive footage) |
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Betty Compson
She was 114, 77 years old when she died
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as Herself (archive footage) |
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Colleen Moore
She was 111, 88 years old when she died
|
as Herself (archive footage) |
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King Baggot
He was 131, 68 years old when he died
|
as Himself (archive footage) |
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films Crew
