This unique Blu-ray/DVD collection features two documentaries never before seen on home video, When You Wore a Tulip and I Wore a Big Red Rose and Palace of Silents, as well as five bonus silent films from early itinerant and local filmmakers. The bonus films feature musical accompaniment by the Ragtime Skedaddlers from our first two CDs.

Bonus materials for We’re in the Movies include an original essay by film historian David Shepard, as well as 5 early examples of the cinematic tradition of itinerant filmmaking. The Lumberjack (1914) is the oldest film shot in Wisconsin that still exists in its original, complete form. The short, silent one-reeler tells a romantic story set against the backdrop of the city’s lumber mills. Our Southern Mountaineers (1918), In the Moonshine Country (1918), and Mountain Life are a trio of shorts that document the lives of some inhabitants living in the eastern mountains of Tennessee and in the ‘moonshine country’ of northern Georgia and Kentucky. Also included are Huntingdon’s Hero (1934), a local talent film made in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, and a newly-restored, 2012 selection for the National Film Registry, Melton Barker’s The Kidnappers Foil (1937), which features a local troupe of children from Corsicana, Texas enacting Barker’s basic story of child abduction and escape. All are sourced from original nitrate or preserved 35mm stock, and feature the versatile musical accompaniment of The Ragtime Skedaddlers.