Has anyone checked the Library of Congress film collection?

On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 9:03 AM, Barbara Schmidt <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> The article that Cindy referenced to the _British Trade Journal_, October
> 1, 1907, p. 377 titled "New Catalogues and Price Lists" is available on
> google book search and does make reference to the Gaumont company filming
> various pageants including Oxford and Mark Twain.  I think it is likely
> that such a film was made.
>
> YouTube currently includes a number of films from 1897 of Queen Victoria's
> Jubilee (which Mark Twain attended) and they appear to be filmed from
> various camera angles. (Picking Clemens out of the crowd in those films
> would be a supreme challenge.)  The fact that footage from 1897 still
> survives seems to offer hope that footage of the 1907 Oxford pageant may
> also survive.  It does seem unusual that Clemens would make no reference to
> the filming in his autobiography. Was the film the historical reenactment
> of British history that he described in his autobiography or the awarding
> of his honorary degree, or scenes from both?
>
> However, another more pertinent question is whether or not the entry for
> the film on the IMDB website (which shows the company issued hundreds of
> films) was compiled from a printed catalog or whether it was compiled from
> some public or private archive of actual footage.
>
> Barb
>



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