Orem Library

For decades archives have worked behind the scenes to save America's film heritage before it disappears. Now for the first time, eighteen of the nation's premier archives join forces to showcase the range of films that survive today thanks to their efforts. For decades archives have worked behind the scenes to sae America's film heritage before it disappears. Now for the first time, eighteen of the nation's premier archives join forces to showcase...

An anthology of films from American film archives. In addition to rare silent-era features, includes cartoons and animation, documentaries and newsreels, earliest American movies, pioneering sound and color experiments, serial episodes, trailers for lost films, advertisements, avant-garde shorts, ethnographic footage, films of ethnic communities, and other film types invented during the first four decades of the motion picture. Contains 50 films followed...

"This meditation on cinema's past from Decasia director Bill Morrison pieces together the bizarre true history of a long-lost collection of 533 nitrate film prints from the early 1900s. Located just south of the Arctic Circle, Dawson City was settled in 1896 and became the center of the Canadian Gold Rush that brough 100,000 prospectors to the area. It was also the final stop for a distribution chain that sent prints and newsreels to the Yukon. The...

48 films, produced between 1900-1934 and digitally mastered and restored by the National Film Preservation Foundation, the nonprofit organization created by the U.S. Congress to help save America's film heritage.