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The New York museum's Film Library, started in 1935, is the oldest film archive in the world and holds more than 30,000 films, restored at its Celeste Bartos Film Preservation Center. Rather than selling discs, MoMA licenses its restorations, often of American silents with their original tints, to labels such as Kino Lorber, and some appear first as festival screenings or HD streams.

Aliases: moma

Way Down East (1920)

Director: D.W. Griffith

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray

Sources: moma.org (opens in a new tab)

Upcoming Release:

New digitized edition of MoMA’s definitive 1979 photochemical restoration, no release yet https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/11556

Video Notes:

Mastered in HD from the Museum of Modern Art's 35mm restoration, with original color tints

Lady Windermere's Fan (1925)

Director: Ernst Lubitsch

Video format: HD Streaming

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Retroformat HD Streaming

Upcoming Release:

In 2021, a 4K restoration was premiered by MoMA which has yet to receive home video release.

What Price Glory (1926)

Director: Raoul Walsh

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Grapevine OOP Blu-ray

Sources: moma.org (opens in a new tab)

Upcoming Release:

New restoration by MoMA and Film Foundation https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/11558 no release yet

The Wind (1928)

Director: Victor Sjöström

Video format: 1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly:

Spain DVD? Or unreleased restoration

Sources: nitrateville.com (opens in a new tab)

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The Wobblies (1979)

Directors: Stewart Bird & Deborah Shaffer

Video format: HD Streaming

Best English-Friendly:

HD Streaming

Best Video:

HD Streaming from new MoMA 4K restoration

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