The United States' national library, established in 1800, preserves its film and video holdings at the Packard Campus in Culpeper, Virginia. Early and public-domain films from the collection stream free in HD on loc.gov through the National Screening Room and on the Library's YouTube channel, which is how most of its titles reach viewers. The Library also runs the National Film Registry.
Library of Congress
32 films on Best Blurays
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How we pick the best Library of Congress releases
24 in HD
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Library of Congress official HD Streaming https://www.loc.gov/item/2023602008/
Director: Ralph Steiner
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Library of Congress official HD Streaming https://www.loc.gov/item/2023600533/
Director: Edward Bland
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Official Library of Congress HD Streaming https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE00fzXpI04
Director: D.W. Griffith
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Youtube Library of Congress official HD Streaming
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Youtube Library of Congress official HD Streaming https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EEcvfWYVYg
Youtube Library of Congress official HD Streaming https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EEcvfWYVYg
Other wise available in Kino Lorber or Flicker Alley DVD
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Library of Congress official HD Streaming https://www.loc.gov/resource/ntscrm.00016765/
Director: Billy Bitzer
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Library of Congress official HD Streaming https://www.loc.gov/item/00694394/
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Library of Congress official HD Streaming https://www.loc.gov/item/2001646000/
Director: W.W. Young
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Library of Congress Streaming
Reconstruction on YouTube better
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Complete 2-hour film is lost, only Wonderland and Looking-Glass reissue prints survive
Director: Billy Bitzer
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Library of Congress HD Streaming https://www.loc.gov/collections/films-of-westinghouse-works-1904/about-this-collection/
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Library of Congress HD Streaming https://www.loc.gov/collections/films-of-westinghouse-works-1904/about-this-collection/ is a significantly better restoration compared to previous NFPF restoration
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Library of Congress official HD Streaming https://www.loc.gov/item/2024600519/
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Library of Congress official HD Streaming https://www.loc.gov/item/00694367/
Director: William Heise
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Library of Congress HD Streaming https://www.loc.gov/item/00694131/
1 in SD
Best video release on DVD, SD streaming, LaserDisc or VHS · by Letterboxd rating
Director: Benjamín Doniger
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Library of Congress official SD Streaming https://www.loc.gov/item/2023600548/
7 with no official release
Unofficial sources only, no home media, or lost · by Letterboxd rating
Director: Frank Borzage
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Only has really bad public domain copies
New restoration done by Library of Congress with DCP has no release yet
Director: William A. Seiter
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Unofficial sources ripped from TCM
Library of Congress has completed a digital restoration around 2018 but no release yet
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From Wikipedia:
The film survives complete. A mute print was transferred onto 16mm film by Associated Artists Productions in the 1950s. The Vitaphone soundtrack was lost until 2004 and restored to the film by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. A 16mm copy is housed at the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research. Also listed as being incomplete at the Library of Congress.
Director: Roy Del Ruth
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From Wiki:
The sound discs survive, but the visuals are lost. The George Eastman Museum 2015 book The Dawn of Technicolor, 1915-1935 mistakenly reported that the Library of Congress possesses a black and white print, but that is not true. No color print is known to exist as of 2024.
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