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Hall Beat for Election - Chuck Jones, Industrial Films and Poster Service, USA
1944, 12:30
Chuck Jones took a break from directing Looney Tunes, Merrie Melodies and
Private Snafu cartoons to make this labor-sponsored film for Franklin D.
Roosevelt's 1944 Presidential campaign. It was produced by Industrial Film
and Poster Service which, later rechristened UPJ, earned animation immortality
with Gerald McBoing Boing and the near-sighted Mr. Magoo.
Blackhawk copied this film in 1975 from a nitrate 35mm Technicolor print in the
Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library at Hyde Park, New York.

PROGRAM THREE - TELL ME A STORY

For His Son - D.W. Griffith, Biograph Co., USA, 1912, 14:52
D.W. Griffith directed For His Son in 1912, one of about 450 films he made
for the pioneer Biograph Company. His works included every genre, and
Griffith was also a moralist, and made many films on the folly of unbridled
ambition. Until the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 put a stop to the practice,
Coca-Cola actually contained cocaine. Charles Hill Mailes plays the doctor,
Charles West, his son.
The Biograph negatives were posted as collateral for a bank loan and were put into
storage after the pioneer producer ceased production in 1916. The negatives were
donated by the bank in 1939 to The Museum of Modern Art, and pioneer television
producer Paul Killiam bought commercial rights to them from the bank in 1952.
Blackhawk later purchased this film among many 35mm elements Killiam made for
his daily 15-minute syndicated show "Movie Museum." This is the first home video
edition made directly from a 35mm element. Music by Sydney Hill Lehman.

Suspense - Lois Weber & Phillips Smalley, Rex Co., USA, 1913, 10:10
Suspense (1913) was directed by Lois Weber with her husband Phillips
Smalley. Although there are earlier examples of some of Weber's impressive
techniques, her bravura filmmaking more than makes up for the plot, which
was swept into cinema from 18th-century grand guignol. Blackhawk's
35mm negative was made from one of two surviving original prints in
Britain's National Film Archive, London. Music by Donald Sosin.

The Heart an Indian - Thomas Ince, Bison Co., USA, 1912, 22:20
Thomas Ince leased 17,000 acres of spectacular California land to produce
rugged westerns like The Heart of an Indian, also known as The Indian
Massacre (1913). With the men, livestock and wagons of the Miller Brothers
101 Wild West Show, it has the genuine and unglamorous "feel" of the iron-
less. The missus British man title erroneously credits J. Barney Sherry in
the leads; it is actually Francis Ford (made up as an Indian), with Ann Little.
William Eagleton, Art Acord and Bob Kortman. This is one of approximately
a dozen Ince productions acquired as original negatives by Paul Killiam from Harry
Aitken, once President of Ince's original distribution company. Blackhawk purchased
Killiam's 35mm master some fifty years after it was copied for (but never used in)
Killiam's "Movie Museum." Music by Rodney Sauer.

PROGRAM THREE - ONE FOR THE ROAD

Stolen Kisses - compilation, c. 1920s, 3:30
In Giuseppe Tornatore's beautiful Cinema Paradiso (1988), the local priest
prowls the weekly film show and censors objectionable shots. Decades
after the small boy in the film, now a middle-aged man, receives his legacy:
the entire reel of all the excised snippets. The story was too good not to be
true. Just as found near Brussels in 1997, is an actual reel of "stolen
kisses". But prior to Lobster's acquisition, the clips had never been spliced
together, so it is clear that the projectionist never intended to watch them
again. Music by Eric Le Guen.