THE BARGAIN in the NFPF Screening Room
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William S. Hart in The Bargain (1914)
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The NFPF has the pleasure of announcing that The Bargain (1914) is now available for free viewing in our online screening room. This epochal western, produced by Thomas Ince, directed by Reginald Barker, and added to the National Film Registry in 2010, marked the feature film debut of William S. Hart, one of the genre's greatest stars. It kicked off Hart’s decade-long mission of giving the Western a greater semblance of realism and intense morality. Hart plays his favorite character type, the “good badman,” the outlaw who finds redemption in uneasy reach.
Though The Bargain is available elsewhere online, our copy is in High Definition and graced with a score by Ben Model! Our thanks to the Library of Congress for providing a scan of the 35mm paper print, originally deposited at the Library for copyright purposes in 1914, and for allowing us to reproduce the National Film Registry essay by Brian Taves.
We can also report that several films in the Treasures from American Film Archives section of our screening room have received HD upgrades. They are:
George Dumpson's Place (1965), Ed Emshwiller’s captivating portrait of the scavenger artist.
The Thieving Hand (1908), a surreal special-effects comedy from Vitagraph.
The Confederate Ironclad (1912), a Civil War adventure from Kalem, pitting a "Northern girl spy" against a "southern sweetheart."
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Snow White (1916).
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Snow White (1916), the live-action feature of the Brothers Grimm tale, starring Marguerite Clark, that inspired Walt Disney.
The Fall of the House of Usher (1928), the avant-garde adaptation of Poe’s short story by James Sibley Watson, Jr., and Melville Webber.
More additions and upgrades will arrive in the coming months, so stay tuned!