The Champion : a story of America's first film town

Resource Information

The work The Champion : a story of America's first film town represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Farmington Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

The Champion : a story of America's first film town

Title remainder

a story of America's first film town

Statement of responsibility

The Fort Lee Film Commission presents a Sirk production

Contributor

• Perez, Marc, 1972-
• Keystone Film Company
• Koszarski, Richard
• Sennett, Mack, 1880-1960
• Huff, Theodore
• Borgatta, Mark A.
• Fort Lee Film Commission
• Arnaud, Etienne, 1879-
• Universal Champion
• Universal Victor
• Champion Studios
• Goldwyn Pictures Corporation
• Pollard, Harry, 1879-1934
• Sirk Productions

Film director

• Perez, Marc, 1972-
• Sennett, Mack, 1880-1960
• Huff, Theodore
• Borgatta, Mark A.
• Arnaud, Etienne, 1879-
• Pollard, Harry, 1879-1934

Presenter

• Fort Lee Film Commission

Production company

• Keystone Film Company
• Universal Champion
• Universal Victor
• Champion Studios
• Goldwyn Pictures Corporation
• Sirk Productions

Screenwriter

• Perez, Marc, 1972-

Subject

• Nonfiction films
• Nonfiction films
• New Jersey -- Fort Lee
• Comedy films
• History
• Short films
• Silent films
• Fiction films
• Motion pictures
• Silent films
• Documentary films
• Motion picture industry
• Fiction films
• Motion picture industry -- New Jersey | Fort Lee -- History
• Motion pictures -- New Jersey | Fort Lee
• Documentary films
• Short films
• Comedy films

Genre

• Nonfiction films
• Silent films
• Comedy films
• Fiction films
• Short films
• Documentary films
• History

Language

• eng
• eng
• eng

Summary

The deluxe two-disc DVD set includes a new 2K restoration of Ghost Town (1935) an astonishing and haunting amateur documentary about post-cinema Fort Lee. Disc One also features five films made at Champion Studios, recovered thanks to the efforts of the Library of Congress and the Fort Lee Film Commission. Disc Two includes exciting NJ film rediscoveries, a slapstick comedy from director Mack Sennett, a "melodramatic comedy" starring Madge Kenney, and the earliest surviving film version of Robin Hood

Member of

• Milestone cinematheque

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

• The Champion : a story of America's first film town: camera, Donna Brennan, Michael Grand, Marc J. Perez, Dylan Russell ; editor, B.B. Enriquez ; music, Ryan Shore
• Ghost town; The Indian Land grab; A daughter of Dixie; Not like other girls; Flo's discipline; Marked cards: music composed and performed by Ben Model
• The danger game: music composed and performed by Donald Sosin
• Robin Hood; A grocery clerk's romance: music by Rodney Sauer and performed by the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra

Dewey number

791.43/75

Language note

English or Silent dialogue

LC call number

PN1997.A1

LC item number

C43 2017

PerformerNote

The Champion : a story of America's first film town: featuring Tom Meyers, Armand Pohan, Richard Koszarski, Albert H. Wunsch III, Nancy O'Mallon ; narrator, Matt Zoller Seitz

Runtime

203

Series statement

The Milestone cinematheque

Technique

live action