PERILS OF THE NEW LAND: The Immigrant Experience (1910- 1915):
Special contents of this edition ©1996, 2008 Film Preservation Associates, Inc.
Music for Traffic In Souls ©1996 Philip Carli.
DVD publication and design ©2008 Flicker Alley, LLC
194 min. / B&W / Tinted / Silent / 1:33:1 aspect ratio

This new digital edition of The Italian is conflated from three sources, but mostly copied from an original tinted 35mm nitrate print found in a Maryland barn in 1974. The editing and digital restoration was completed by Lobster Film Studios in Paris.
Music score by Rodney Sauer and the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra.
Audio essay by Giorgio Bertellini, Assistant Professor, Screen Arts & Cultures, University of Michigan; Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (Harvard University).

Traffic In Souls derives from an original 35mm print obtained and preserved by Blackhawk Films in1972 from the estate of an itinerant showman who traveled with his movies among remote logging camps in northern Minnesota in the years before World War I. The digital edition was completed at Image Post, Ascent Media, and Elektrofilm Digital Studios. New opening titles were made by Roam Creative.
Music score by Philip Carli. Audio essay by Shelley Stamp, Professor, Film & Digital Media, Univ. of California, Santa Cruz.

Police Force, New York City was discovered as an original 1910 release print in a Maine barn, while The Call of the City and McQuade of the Traffic Squad are duplicated from 35mm fine grain masters printed in 1953 from the original camera negatives. Music for all three shorts compiled and performed by Rodney Sauer.