Mike Mashon

Mike Mashon

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The Films of Zora Neale Hurston
Title: The Films of Zora Neale Hurston
Character: Himself
Released: July 26, 2016
Type: Movie
"The Films of Zora Neale Hurston" welcomes Library of Congress employee Mike Mashon, who discusses the discovery of a forgotten filmmaker's work.
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Reel in the Closet
Title: Reel in the Closet
Released: June 21, 2015
Type: Movie
Never before seen home movies made by queer people dating back to the 1930s and the struggle to save them before they are lost forever.
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Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
Title: Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
Character: Himself
Released: April 3, 2011
Type: Movie
Among the pieces featured in Fragments are the final reel of John Ford's The Village Blacksmith (1922) and a glimpse at Emil Jannings in The Way of All Flesh (1927), the only Oscar®-winning performance in a lost film. Fragments also features clips from such lost films as Cleopatra (1917), starring Theda Bara; The Miracle Man (1919), with Lon Chaney; He Comes Up Smiling (1918), starring Douglas Fairbanks; an early lost sound film, Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929), filmed in early Technicolor, and the only color footage of silent star Clara Bow, Red Hair (1928). The program is rounded out with interviews of film preservationists involved in identifying and restoring these films. Also featured is a new interview with Diana Serra Cary, best known as "Baby Peggy", one of the major American child stars of the silent era, who discusses one of the featured fragments, Darling of New York (1923).