Episode Details

Film historian Randy Haberkamp just recently retired as the Executive Vice President of the Library, Archive and Sci-Tech for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, where he held various positions for 23 years. With that experience in film preservation in mind, he highlights hard-to-find films as well as more famed stars and titles.

Randy worked for CBS for 14 years, culminating as Director of Specials and Feature Films. He is also the founder of The Silent Society, a silent film preservation and appreciation group that has presented and preserved silent films in Los Angeles for nearly 40 years, and currently serves on the board of Hollywood Heritage.

Films mentioned:

• Max Learns to Skate (1907) - Louis J. Gasnier
• Ben Hur (1907) - Sidney Olcott and Frank Oakes Rose
• The Haunted Hotel (1907) - J. Stuart Blackton
• Smuggled into America (1907) - unknown
• The Girl from Montana (1907) - Gilbert M. “Broncho Billy” Anderson
• Modern Times (1936) - Charlie Chaplin
• The Rink (1916) - Charlie Chaplin
• Reefer Madness (1936) - Louis J. Gasnier
• Napoleon (1927) - Abel Gance
• The Great Train Robbery (1903) - Edwin S. Porter
• The Great Train Robbery (1904) - Siegmund Lubin
• Ben-Hur (1959) - William Wyler
• The Haunted House (1908) - Segundo de Chomón
• A Clockwork Orange (1971) - Stanley Kubrick
• The Count of Monte Cristo (1908) - Francis Boggs and Thomas Persons
• Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat (1896) - Auguste and Louis Lumière
• Repas de bébé (1895) - Louis Lumière
• L'Arroseur Arrosé (1895) - Louis Lumière
• Vertigo (1958) - Alfred Hitchcock
• In the Mood for Love (2000) - Wong Kar-wai
• The Wizard of Oz (1939) - Victor Fleming