Silent Movie Day: The Little American
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This program is presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive. Part of the UCLA Film & Television Archive screening series Archive Treasures.
In-person: Steven K. Hill, UCLA associate motion picture curator, co-founder of Silent Movie Day.
The UCLA Film & Television Archive is getting the jump on Silent Movie Day this year which officially falls on September 29, but we just can’t wait to show our support for the preservation and exhibition of silent films! It is with great pleasure that we present this special screening in solidarity with theaters around the world celebrating the glorious silent era.
The Little American (1917)
This year we celebrate Silent Movie Day with Mary Pickford and Cecil B. DeMille’s war-time classic, The Little American. Written by longtime DeMille collaborator Jeanie Macpherson, Angela (Pickford) finds herself torn between two lovers — one French (Raymond Hatton), one German (Jack Holt) — and follows them to Europe as they fight on opposite sides of the trenches. The UCLA Film & Television Archive photochemically restored The Little American in 1990 from DeMille’s personal 35mm nitrate print and a nitrate negative fragment. In 2019, the Archive partnered with the Mary Pickford Foundation to scan the preservation duplicate picture negative in 4K as the basis for the current digital restoration.
DCP, b&w, silent with musical accompaniment, 63 min. Director: Cecil B. DeMille. Screenwriter: Jeanie Macpherson, Clarence J. Harris, Cecil B. DeMille. With: Mary Pickford, Jack Holt, Raymond Hatton.
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