We also get the last reel of the director's 1922 film THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH. We then take a look at director John Ford and his trailer to the lost STRONG BOY (1929), which looks pretty interesting.

It too comes from a documentary and contains narration. Lon Chaney in THE MIRACLE MAN (1919) comes up next and I'm sure most will be familiar with this footage since it's been released by Kino and a few other companies. We get just under 10-minutes worth of footage and we get a couple exciting stunt sequences and of course there's plenty of Fairbanks smiling. HE COMES UP SMILING (1918) is a Douglas Fairbanks picture directed by Allan Dwan. Even with just these few minutes Jannings is able to pull you into the story and one can only hope this eventually turns up complete. We certainly can't judge an entire film on five-minutes but man does the performance seem great. The second fragment is the final couple minutes of the film. Two fragments are shown here with the first taken from a documentary released in the 1930s so it features narration. THE WAY OF ALL FLESH earned Emil Jannings a Best Actor Oscar but it's also the only acting winner that is currently lost. The next section looks at three legendary actors and some of their missing work. We also get a few brief sequences from THREE WEEKENDS (1928) and this footage is a brief dance scene. The Bow footage starts with RED HAIR (1928), which features her only color footage, which was a real eye-opener to see. In one scene we see Moore in front of a mirror getting some make up on and in a more risky clip we see a pool party where one drunk lady jumps into some sprinklers and we can see through her shorts. We get around ten-minutes worth of footage from Moore's 1923 film FLAMING YOUTH. These clips are followed by a section devoted to Colleen Moore and Clara Bow, the two greatest flappers of the 1920s. We get scenes from WHAT ONE SMALL BOY CAN DO (1908), THE VIKING'S DAUGHTER (1908), TOO MUCH CHAMPAGNE (1908) and WAITING ON THE WAITER (1910). Up next is a special section on Vitaphone as we're told that they sent 35mm paper prints off for copyright purposes but instead of sending the entire film the studio would just send certain parts of the film, which is one reason why so many of their movies are now lost. While the footage only lasts a few seconds it's easy to tell in that time that the actress wore very few clothes in the film. The footage starts off with a few seconds from 1917's CLEOPATRA, which featured sex symbol Theda Bara who we're told that only two of forty films made between 19 still exist. Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films (2011) **** (out of 4) Michael Pogorzelshi of the Academy Film Archive and Mike Mashon from the Library of Congress explain some of the reasons why so many films are lost today and they also go into detail about what's being done to try and locate lost film and restore them before they're lost forever.

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