Silent Film Sources

Biograph Entertainment (16mm)

Phone 914-242-9838

• Public Domain Classics The Battleship Potemkin, The Birth of a Nation, Blind Husbands, The Blot, Broken Blossoms, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, College, Destiny, Earth, Easy Virtue, The End of St. Petersburg, La Fille De L'eau, Foolish Wives, The General, The Gold Rush, The Golem, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Intolerance, An Italian Straw Hat, The Joyless Street, Kriemhild's Revenge, Lady Windemere's Fan, The Last Laugh, The Lodger, Master of the House, Metropolis, Mother, Nosferatu, October, The Phantom of the Opera, A Romance of Happy Valley, Siegfried, Steamboat Bill, Jr., Storm Over Asia, Strike, The Thief of Bagdad, Variety, Way Down East, Woman in the Moon
• Harold Lloyd Features (Time-Life editions) Dr. Jack & For Heaven's Sake, The Freshman, Girl Shy, The Kid Brother, Hot Water & Safety Last, A Sailor Made Man & Grandma's Boy, Speedy

Columbia Pictures Repertory (35mm)

Phone 310-244-5683
Fax 310-244-1566

email: michael_schlesinger@spe.sony.com

• The Matinee Idol, The Price She Paid (tinted), Submarine

Criterion Pictures USA, Inc.

Phone 800-890-9494 or 847-470-8164
Fax 847-470-8194

Criterion Pictures Home Page

• Fox Film Corporation City Girl, Fig Leaves, Just Pals

The Douris Corporation (16mm and 35mm)

Attn: Tim Lanza
209 S. High Street, Suite 310
Columbus, OH 43215

Phone 614-469-0720
Fax 614-469-1607

email: Douris1@ameritech.net

• The Films of Buster Keaton
• The Films of Douglas Fairbanks, Sr.
• The Films of Harry Langdon
• The Films of Norma and Constance Talmadge
• The Films of Paul Robeson

Em Gee Film Library (16mm)

Phone 818-881-8110
Fax 818-981-5506

email: MGLASS@worldnet.att.net

Films Incorporated (16mm)

Films Incorporated Home Page

Films Incorporated withdrew from the 16mm non-theatrical business in 1997. Their library is now distributed by Kit Parker Films.

Idaho Film Collection

Idaho Film Collection at
Boise State University
Tom Trusky, Head

Phone: 208-385-1999

email: ttrusky@quartz.idbsu.edu
Idaho Film Collection Home Page

• Filmed in Idaho Photoplay Magazine Screen Supplement (1919) (16mm, includes segment showing the making of Told in the Hills), Told in the Hills (1919) (two surviving reels; 35mm and 16mm), The Grub-Stake (1923) (16mm), Trail of the North Wind (1923) (16mm Nell Shipman two-reeler), Light on Lookout (1923) (16mm Nell Shipman two-reeler), The Tornado (1924) (35mm, Dutch intertitles)
• The 1918 Maxwell (1918) (16mm commercial; Joseph Walker photographer), Back to God's Country (1919) (16mm, tinted), A Bear, A Boy, & A Dog (Saturday Off) (1921; 1920) (16mm Nell Shipman two-reeler), Something New (1920) (16mm)

Interama, Inc.

Phone 212-977-4830
Fax 212-581-6582
 

• Charlie Chaplin Retrospective The Circus and A Day's Pleasure, City Lights, The Gold Rush (1942 reissue version), The Kid and The Idle Class, Modern Times, The Chaplin Revue (A Dog's Life, Shoulder Arms, The Pilgrim), Sunnyside, Payday
• Talking films The Great Dictator, Monsieur Verdoux, Limelight, A King in New York

Kino International (16mm and 35mm)

Phone 800-562-3330 or 212-629-6880
Fax 212-714-0871

email: kinoint@infohouse.com
Kino Home Page http://www.kino.com

• New Releases Peter Pan (1924) tinted and fully restored
• The Killiam Collection in 35mm Blood and Sand, Broken Blossoms, The Eagle, The General, A Girl in Every Port, The Gold Rush, It, The Phantom of the Opera, The Son of the Sheik, Steamboat Bill, Jr., Tempest, The Thief of Bagdad, Tumbleweeds
• Kino Classics in 35mm The Chaplin Mutual Shorts, Foolish Wives, The Joyless Street, Nanook of the North, Nosferatu, Pandora's Box, Potemkin, Queen Kelly, Sadie Thompson, Strike, Witchcraft Through the Ages
• The Killiam Collection in 16mm America (with narration), The Beloved Rogue, The Birth of a Nation, The Black Pirate, Blood and Sand, Broken Blossoms, Chaplin Shorts Program, College, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Down to the Sea in Ships, The Eagle, The General, The Gold Rush, Hearts of the World, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Intolerance, The Iron Mask, It, Judith of Bethulia, The Mark of Zorro, Orphans of the Storm, The Phantom of the Opera, Sally of the Sawdust, Son of the Sheik, Sparrows, Steamboat Bill, Jr., Tempest, Tillie's Punctured Romance, The Thief of Bagdad, Way Down East
• Soviet Union- The Pioneers Aelita- Queen of Mars, Arsenal, Bed and Sofa, The Cigarette Girl of Mosselprom, Earth, The End of St. Petersburg, Girl With the Hat Box, The Man With a Movie Camera, Mother, Storm Over Asia, Three Songs of Lenin
• The Films of Sergei Eisenstein Strike, Potemkin, October, The General Line
• Kino Classics in 16mm Pandora's Box, Queen Kelly, Sadie Thompson

The Harold Lloyd Trust

Kit Parker Films (16mm and 35mm)

Phone 408-393-0303
Fax 408-393-0304

email: info@kitparker.com
Kit Parker Films Home Page http://www.kitparker.com

• The Killiam Collection in 16mm
• Restored with tints and music scores America (with narration), The Beloved Rogue, The Birth of a Nation, The Black Pirate, Blood and Sand, Broken Blossoms, College, Down to the Sea in Ships, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Eagle, The Extra Girl, The General, The Gold Rush, Hearts of the World, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Intolerance, The Iron Horse, The Iron Mask, Judith of Bethulia, Little Annie Rooney, The Mark of Zorro, Mr. Robinson Crusoe, Orphans of the Storm, Peck's Bad Boy, The Phantom of the Opera, Riders of the Purple Sage, Sally of the Sawdust, Seventh Heaven, Son of the Sheik, Sparrows, Steamboat Bill, Jr., Tempest, The Thief of Bagdad, Tillie's Punctured Romance, The Toll Gate, Tumbleweeds, Way Down East, What Price Glory?
• Restored with Music Scores, but no Tints Dick Turpin, Four Sons, A Girl in Every Port, The Great K&A Train Robbery, It, Just Tony, Street Angel, Sunrise
• No Music Score A Fool There Was, Hangman's House, The Last Trail, Lazybones, A Tale of Two Cities, Three Bad Men
• Licensed Titles in 16mm The King of Kings, Son of the Sheik
• Harold Lloyd Features in 16mm (Time-Life editions) Dr. Jack & For Heaven's Sake, The Freshman, Girl Shy, Hot Water & Safety Last, The Kid Brother, Never Weaken & Why Worry?, A Sailor Made Man & Grandma's Boy, Speedy
• Public Domain Classics in 16mm The Adventures of Tarzan, The Avenging Conscience, The Birth of a Nation, The Black Pirate, Blind Husbands, Blood and Sand, Broken Blossoms, A Burlesque on Carmen, The Cat and the Canary, Clash of the Wolves, College, Don Q Son of Zorro, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Eagle, Eighty Million Women Want?, Foolish Wives, '49 '17, Free to Love, The Garden of Eden, The General, The Gold Rush, The Heart of Texas Ryan, Hearts of the World, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Idol Dancer, Intolerance, The Iron Mask, Judith of Bethulia, The Lost World, The Mark of Zorro, The Marriage Circle, Nanook of the North (1947 version), Oliver Twist, On the Night Stage, The Phantom of the Opera, The Return of Draw Egan, The Road to Ruin, The Road to Yesterday, Sparrows, Steamboat Bill, Jr., Tarzan of the Apes, Tempest, The Thief of Bagdad, Tillie's Punctured Romance, Tol'able David, The Toll Gate, Trilby, True Heart Susie, Tumbleweeds, Way Down East, Wild and Woolly, The Wizard of Oz
• Foreign Public Domain Classics in 16mm Arsenal, Bed and Sofa, Berlin: Symphony of a City, By the Law, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Destiny, Die Nibelungen: Siegfried and Kriemhild's Revenge, Dr. Mabuse Der Spieler: The Great Gambler and The Inferno, Earth, Easy Virtue, The End of St. Petersburg, The Fatal Passion of Dr. Mabuse, Faust, The General Line, The Golem, The Haunted Castle, Hintertreppe (Backstairs), Homecoming, The Italian Straw Hat, The Joyless Street, The Last Laugh, Leaves From Satan's Book, The Lodger, Love of Jeanne Ney, The Man With the Movie Camera, The Manxman, Master of the House, Metropolis, Mother, Moulin Rouge, Nosferatu, Othello, Passion, The Passion of Joan of Arc, The Phantom Chariot, Potemkin, Spies, Storm Over Asia, Story of Gosta Berling, Strike, Ten Days That Shook the World, Thomas Graal's Best Child, Thomas Graal's Best Film, Variety, Warning Shadows, Witchcraft Through the Ages, Woman in the Moon, Zvenigora
• Public Domain Classics (formerly distributed by Films, Incorporated)The Birth of a Nation, The Black Pirate, Blind Husbands, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Easy Virtue, Foolish Wives, The General, The Gold Rush, The Haunted Castle, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Intolerance, Dr. Mabuse The Gambler, The Last Laugh, The Lodger, The Lost World, The Manxman, Metropolis, Nosferatu, Orphans of the Storm, Pandora's Box, The Phantom of the Opera, Potemkin, Spies, Ten Days That Shook the World (October), The Thief of Bagdad, The Treasure, True Heart Susie, Way Down East, Witchcraft Through the Ages
• The Killiam Collection in 35mm The General, The Phantom of the Opera, Riders of the Purple Sage
• Laurel and Hardy shorts in 35mm Big Business, Liberty, Two Tars

MGM/UA Classics (35mm)

Phone 310-444-1545
Fax 310-312-3372

Milestone Film & Video (16mm and 35mm)

Phone 800-603-1104 or 212-865-7449
Fax 212-222-8952

email: MileFilms@aol.com

• Mary Pickford Classics in 16mm and 35mm with Organ Scores My Best Girl, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Sparrows, Suds, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Little Annie Rooney
• Mary Pickford Classics Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley, Daddy-Long-Legs, The Hoodlum, A Little Princess, The Poor Little Rich Girl, Rosita, Stella Maris,
• Mary Pickford Sound Films Kiki, Secrets, The Taming of the Shrew
• Great Stars in the Big Films of Yesteryear in 35mm from the Mary Pickford library Eternal Love, Evangeline, Drums of Love, Lady of the Pavements
• The Age of Exploration in 16mm Tabu, Chang, The Silent Enemy (all films with music scores)
• The Age of Exploration in 35mm Tabu, Chang, Grass, The Silent Enemy (all films except Grass with music scores)

The Museum of Modern Art Circulating Film Library (16mm)

Phone 212-708-9530
Fax 212-708-0531

• Early Film Programs Films of the 1890s, Early Films of Interest, Early German Films, Lumiere Program I: First Programs, Lumiere Program II: Early Lumiere Films, The Classic American Mutuscope, Magic Films, George Melies Program, The Beginnings of British Film, Edison Program, Edwin S. Porter Program I, Edwin S. Porter Program II: Social Issues, Ferdinand Zecca Program, Max Linder Program, Cohl, Feuillade and Durand Program, Animation Program, The Film D'Art, Griffith Biograph Program, Tontolini and Polidor Comedies, Great Actresses of the Past, Griffith's Westerns, Mack Sennett Program I, Winsor McCay Program, Italian Melodrama, Polidor Comedies, Vitagraph Comedies, Broncho Billy Westerns, Swedish Cinema Classics, Chaplin's Keystone Films, Chaplin's Essanay Films, Mack Sennett Program II
• American Features
• Douglas Fairbanks Reaching for the Moon, Wild and Woolly, A Modern Musketeer, His Majesty the American, When the Clouds Roll By, The Mark of Zorro, The Mollycoddle, The Nut, The Three Musketeers, Robin Hood, The Thief of Bagdad, Don Q Son of Zorro, The Gaucho, The Iron Mask
• D.W. Griffith The Avenging Conscience, Home Sweet Home, Judith of Bethulia, The Birth of A Nation, Intolerance, Hearts of the World, Broken Blossoms, The Mother and the Law, A Romance of Happy Valley, True Heart Susie, Way Down East, Orphans of the Storm, The White Rose, America, Isn't Life Wonderful, The Sorrows of Satan
• American Features A Fool There Was, The Coward, The Martyrs of the Alamo, Rumpelstiltskin, Civilization, Mickey, Blind Husbands, The Whirl of Life, Male and Female, The Cradle of Courage, Excuse My Dust, The Toll Gate, The Blot, Tol'able David, Blood and Sand, Foolish Wives, Nanook of the North, Sky High, Anna Christie, The Covered Wagon, The Iron Horse, The Marriage Circle, Monsieur Beaucaire, Lady Windermere's Fan, Grass, Beau Geste, Moana, Hands Up!, What Price Glory?, The Cat and the Canary, The General, Hotel Imperial, Seventh Heaven, Sunrise, Underworld, The Last Command
• International Cinema
• Czechoslovakia Such is Life
• Denmark Leaves From Satan's Book
• Germany Madame Du Barry (Passion), The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The Golem, Destiny, Dr. Mabuse The Gambler, Nosferatu, The Street, Warning Shadows, The Last Laugh, Die Nibelungen: Siegfried and Kriemhild's Revenge, The Chronicle of the Gray House, The Joyless Street, Variety, Berlin: Symphony of a Great City, The Love of Jeanne Ney, Metropolis, Spies, Brothers, The White Hell of Pitz Palu
• England Squibs Wins the Calcutta Sweep, The Lodger, A Cottage on Dartmoor
• France The Crazy Ray, The Late Matthew Pascal, The Italian Straw Hat, The Passion of Joan of Arc
• Italy Quo Vadis?, Cabiria, Assunta Spina, Cenere
• Russia Father Sergius
• Soviet Union The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks, Potemkin, Strike, Bed and Sofa, By the Law, The Cloak, Mother, The End of St. Petersburg, The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty, October, Storm Over Asia, Arsenal, China Express, Fragment of an Empire, The Man With the Movie Camera, Salt for Svanetia
• Sweden The Outlaw and His Wife, The Treasure of Arne, The Phantom Chariot
• Features From George Eastman House The Cheat, The Blue Bird, The Dragon Painter, The Last of the Mohicans, Hamlet, The Master of the House, Body and Soul, Ten Nights in a Barroom, Borderline

National Center for Jewish Film (16mm)

Phone 617-899-7044
Fax 617-736-2070

email: NCJF@logos.cc.brandeis.edu
National Center for Jewish Film Home Page http://www.brandeis.edu/jewishfilm/

• Yiddish Films East and West, His Excellency (missing one reel), Jewish Luck, Laughter Through Tears, The Unfortunate Bride/Broken Hearts, Yizkor
• Hollywood Films Ben-Hur, His People, Hungry Hearts, The Jazz Singer, None So Blind, Surrender
• Austrian Film The Wandering Jew

New Yorker Films (16mm)

Phone 212-247-6110
Fax 212-307-7855

New Yorker Films Home Page http://www.newyorkerfilms.com/

• Films of Yasujiro Ozu I Was Born, But..., A Story of Floating Weeds

Paramount Pictures Corp. (35mm)

Phone 213-956-5889
Fax 213-862-8627

The Mary Pickford Company (16mm and 35mm)

Phone 310-396-4847
Fax 310-396-3482

The films of Mary Pickford are distributed by Milestone Film & Video.

Swank Motion Pictures (16mm)

Phone 800-876-5577 or 314-534-6300
Fax 314-289-2192

Swank Motion Pictures Home Page http://www.swank.com

• Directed by Frank Capra in 16mm So This is Love, Submarine, That Certain Thing, Way of the Strong, The Younger Generation
• MGM Classics Ben-Hur, The Big Parade, The Cameraman, Camille (1921), The Crowd, Exit Smiling, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Greed, He Who Gets Slapped, The Kiss, Love, Mockery, The Mysterious Island, The Penalty, Proud Flesh, The Scarlet Letter, The Show, Show People, The Student Prince, Tell It to the Marines, The Unholy Three, Where East is East, The White Sister, Wild Oranges, Wild Orchids, Wine of Youth, Winners of the Wilderness
• Paramount The Covered Wagon, Docks of New York, Doomsday, Feel My Pulse, Fine Manners, Hotel Imperial, Kid Boots, The Last Command, Love 'Em and Leave 'Em, The Lucky Lady, Manslaughter, Moana, Running Wild, The Ten Commandments, Wings
• Universal-owned Paramount Classics The Four Feathers
• Universal Classics The Man Who Laughs, The White Hell of Pitz Palu
• Warner Bros. Classics Don Juan, The Jazz Singer, The Sea Beast, The Singing Fool
• Japanese Silents A Page of Madness, Passing Fancy
• Public Domain Classics Blind Husbands, Blood and Sand, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The Cat and the Canary, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Farmer's Wife, The General, The Mark of Zorro, Metropolis, The Narrow Trail, Nosferatu, The Phantom of the Opera, Son of the Sheik, The Square Deal Man, The Toll Gate, Way Down East

Warner Bros. Classics

Phone 818 954-1508

e-mail: roger_lewin@warnerbros.com

Worldview Entertainment, Inc.

Attn: Sandra J. Birnhak
145 West 55th Street, 7th floor
New York, NY 10019

Phone 212-925-4291
Fax 212-925-2314

The Killiam Shows library of silent classics is available in 16mm and 35mm from Kit Parker Films. Some Killiam titles were available on home video from Republic Pictures Home Video and on laserdisc from Landmark Laservision. The titles are now offered on video with new transfers through Critic's Choice.

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