Upcoming Restorations:

His Glorious Night (1929, Dir Lionel Barrymore. Starring John Gilbert and Catherine Dale Owen)

Locked away since 1929, this notorious early talkie, allegedly responsible for killing John Gilbert's career, will finally be released.

COMPLETED PROJECTS:

The Affairs of Anatol (Dir. Cecil B. Demille. 1921, Starring Wallace Reid and Gloria Swanson)

Newly married Anatol (Wallace Reid) is a sucker for troubled women. On his quest to save every woman who is down on their luck, he overlooks the one woman who most loves him, his wife (Gloria Swanson).

Highlights of this film: BEAUTIFUL Handschiegl color !

Beau Geste ( Dir. Herbert Brenon, 1926, Ronald Colman, William Powell, Noah Berry, Alice Joyce, and Neil Hamilton)

The story of three brothers, who, to protect one another, end up in the French Foreign Legion, where a mystery unfolds.

Although the Beau Geste has been generally available in some form, and some film elements were preserved, this is the first time a restoration has been attempted.

The New Klondike (1926. Dir. Lewis Milestone. Starring Thomas Meighan and Lila Lee)

Baseball Spring Training in Florida, meets swamp land real estate hustlers. Love, Baseball and Hucksters come together in the Sunshine state..

Thought to be incomplete, Lewis Milestone’s third feature film will be making its debut this November at the San Francisco Silent Film Festival.

Mothers of Men aka EVERY WOMAN’S PROBLEM (Dir. Willis Robards. 1917)

Willis Robards’s Mothers of Men was originally released in November 1917 and then re released four years later, after the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, with the new title, Every Woman’s Problem. No elements of the 1917 version are known to survive, but a single complete, tinted 35mm nitrate print of the 1921 rerelease has been preserved at the British Film Institute. Film archivist James Mockoski has been passionate in his research on the film and its significance to the history of his native Santa Cruz and suggested a collaboration between SFSFF and the BFI National Archive to restore the film. Digital tools allowed for minimizing the dirt and damage present in the ninety-five-year-old print, which was scanned at 4K, and the color tinting present in the rerelease print was reproduced. In addition to the materials preserved at the BFI National Archive, a new 35mm preservation negative and positive print have been deposited in the San Francisco Silent Film Festival Collection at the Library of Congress.

The Johnstown Flood (Dir. Irving Cummings. 1926)

Academy Award Winner Janet Gaynor appears in her first major role as Anna Burger, a love-struck teenage girl smitten with the dashing, but unavailable Tom O’Day, played by George O’Brien. Tom is an engineer for the Hamilton Lumber Company and engaged to the owner’s daughter Gloria, played by Florence Gilbert. He warns the owners of the imminent failure of the dam, only to be ignored, leaving it up to Anna to try to save her community from impending disaster. The Johnstown Flood captures one of the great American tragedies, when over 2000 lives were lost in 1889 because of the inaction of a wealthy group ignoring the dangers of the dam they’d failed to maintain. Almost a century old, The Johnstown Flood has been newly restored from unique surviving film elements. It’s a thrilling drama and a prime example of the cutting edge special effects techniques that emerged at the end of the silent era. The all star cast also features George Reed, Walter Perry and Max Davidson, with cameos by Clark Gable, Carole Lombard and Florence Lawrence. The Johnstown Flood is a classic silent film and essential to every film enthusiast’s collection.

Miss Lulu Bett (Dir. William DeMille. Starring Lois Wilson, Theodore Roberts, Milton Stills and Helen Ferguson)

More Information to Come…..