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).
Made in US
9/10
2011
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Cast
Baby Peggy
As Herself
Heather Linville
As Herself - Film Preservationist: Academy Film Archive
Mike Mashon
As Himself
Michael Pogorzelski
As Himself
King Baggot
As Himself (archive footage)
Theda Bara
As Herself (archive footage)
Clara Bow
As Herself (archive footage)
Louise Brooks
As Herself (archive footage)
Lon Chaney
As Himself (archive footage)
Betty Compson
As Herself (archive footage)
Oliver Hardy
As Himself (archive footage)
Emil Jannings
As Himself (archive footage)
Harry Langdon
As Himself (archive footage)
Stan Laurel
As Himself (archive footage)
Winnie Lightner
As Herself (archive footage)
Nick Lucas
As Himself (archive footage)
Victor McLaglen
As Himself (archive footage)
Colleen Moore
As Herself (archive footage)
George Raft
As Himself (archive footage)
Lawrence Tibbett
As Himself (archive footage)
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