What is Retro Format: Rare Silents on 8MM about?

RETRO FORMAT: RARE SILENTS ON 8MM, 120 min. Before Blu-ray, before VHS, there was 8mm film. The American Cinematheque is proud to present films impossible to find in today’s formats: rare silent gems, preserved on beautiful 8mm prints made for American living rooms of the 1950s-1970s. In 1916’s THE NARROW TRAIL, star William S. Hart combines brooding machismo with boyish vulnerability. With shorts by Georges Melies (1903’s "The Monster" and 1904’s "The Terrible Turkish Executioner"), D.W. Griffith’s "Sands O’Dee" (1912); and a Keystone comedy from 1916, "A Movie Star."

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What is Retro Format: Rare Silents on 8MM about?: RETRO FORMAT: RARE SILENTS ON 8MM, 120 min. Before Blu-ray, before VHS, there was 8mm film. The American Cinematheque is proud to present films impossible to find in today’s formats: rare silent gems, preserved on beautiful 8mm prints made for American living rooms of the 1950s-1970s. In 1916’s THE NARROW TRAIL, star William S. Hart combines brooding machismo with boyish vulnerability. With shorts by Georges Melies (1903’s "The Monster" and 1904’s "The Terrible Turkish Executioner"), D.W. Griffith’s "Sands O’Dee" (1912); and a Keystone comedy from 1916, "A Movie Star."