American primitives
Contributors: Harvard Film Society; Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.); Theater Playbills and Programs Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1936
Language: eng
Other titles: Survey of the film in America, 1895-1932
Description: Harvard Film Society presents "American Primitives," a series of memorable motion pictures in five performances. The Society proposes as its first offering a series of programs released by the Museum of Modern Art in New York called "A Survey of the Film in America, 1895-1932".
Notes: Jan. 28, Feb. 9, Feb. 25, Mar. 9, Mar. 25, [1936] Cambridge, Institute of Geographical Exploration, at 4:00 and 8:00 p.m.

Title devised by Library staff from cover.

LC copy: Gift: W. Tucker Dean, Jan. 23, 1941.

In: American theater programs of the late 19th and 20th centuries (Library of Congress).
Table of contents: title: Jan. 28: Wash Day Troubles (1895); title: The Execution of Mary Queen of Scots (1895); title: A Trip to the Moon / by Georges Méliès (1902); title: The Great Train Robbery / by Edwin S. Porter (1903); title: Faust, a Pathé film (1907); title: Queen Elizabeth with Sarah Bernhardt (1911).; title: Feb. 9: The New York Hat / by D.W. Griffith, with Mary Pickford and Lionel Barrymore (1912); title: The Fugitive / by Thomas H. Ince, with William S. Hart (1916); title: The Clever Dummy, a Mack Sennett Comedy (1915); title: A Fool There Was / by Frank Powell, with Theda Bara (1914).; title: Feb. 25: Intolerance / by D.W. Griffith (1916).; title: Mar. 9: Hands / by Stella Simon (1928); title: Sunrise / by F.W. Murnau (1927).; title: Mar. 25: Early sound experiments, with a scene from The Jazz Singer (1926); title: Movietone Newsreel, with Mussolini and Bernard Shaw (1927); title: All Quiet on the Western Front / by Lewis Milestone (1930); title: Steamboat Willie / by Walt Disney (1928).