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Little Annie Rooney Newly Restored and Digitally Mastered on 4K with a new score from the Mary Pickford Foundation

Mary Pickford (Actor), William Haines (Actor), William Beaudine (Director) Rated:
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IMDb6.8/10.0
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Blu-ray. Mary Pickford plays a "tomboy of the tenements" in this comedy drama, which she also wrote. Filmed over ten weeks, Little Annie Rooney was shot entirely on a set created by art director John D. Schulze at the Pickford Fairbanks Studio. Co-starring William Haines and a wide-ranging, multi-ethnic cast, Little Annie Rooney met with huge critical and commercial success upon it's original release, proving fans and critics alike wanted the then 33-year old Mary to stay a child forever. Created from the original tinted nitrate print in Mary Pickford's personal collection at the Library of Congress, Little Annie Rooney was preserved photo chemically by the Academy Film Archive. A new 35mm preservation master was then scanned at 4K high definition so that the Mary Pickford Foundation, in cooperation with AMPAS, could create a digital version to perfectly match the original nitrate tints and tones. Andy Gladbach composed a new, original soundtrack for the film, which features a 12 piece orchestra, including three percussionists.

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''This is the Mary Pickford who will always be loved and welcomed. This is Mary at her best and her truest...''

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''Little Annie Rooney, staring the luminous Mary Pickford, was an unexpected delight (at the 2017 Glasgow Film Festival?) ... It is easy to see why Pickford was one of the most internationally renowned and best loved stars of her day.''

Georgina Coburn --Geogina Coburn Arts Blog, October

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  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ NR (Not Rated)
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 4.8 ounces
  • Director ‏ : ‎ William Beaudine
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ NTSC, Subtitled
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 54 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ April 13, 2021
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Mary Pickford, William Haines, Walter James, Gordon Griffith
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Flicker Alley
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07GVXBHZ1
  • Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ USA
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 2
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Clever, classy and cool, a vintage girl power movie
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Clever, classy and cool, a vintage girl power movie
This 2018 restoration from the Library of Congress was scanned in 4K high definition and the picture and musical score are phenomenal. This two DVD set includes a regular DVD and a Blue-Ray Disc. Both have a crisp and clear picture. Flicker Alley's version of 1925s "Little Annie Rooney" is impossible not to like because of the print quality.Mary Pickford wrote the story and used her grandmothers name, Catherine Hennessey in the credits. I learned this from the nifty 23 page booklet included. The booklet also includes details on some of the actors in the movie, how the film was restored, and a picture of Helen Keller with the cast members.Details of the orchestra and how nearly a dozen musicians redid the original music score is also covered in the booklet. Behind the scenes photos are laden throughout the book also.The plot is still potent today. Poor kids fighting on the streets, crime including murder and comedy mixed with drama very well. The single father / daughter relationship between Officer Rooney and Annie Rooney is sly and sentimental.The zenith of vintage movie remastering has arrived!
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Mark Izzy Schurr
5.0 out of 5 stars Clever, classy and cool, a vintage girl power movie
Reviewed in the United States on July 4, 2023
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This 2018 restoration from the Library of Congress was scanned in 4K high definition and the picture and musical score are phenomenal. This two DVD set includes a regular DVD and a Blue-Ray Disc. Both have a crisp and clear picture. Flicker Alley's version of 1925s "Little Annie Rooney" is impossible not to like because of the print quality.
Mary Pickford wrote the story and used her grandmothers name, Catherine Hennessey in the credits. I learned this from the nifty 23 page booklet included. The booklet also includes details on some of the actors in the movie, how the film was restored, and a picture of Helen Keller with the cast members.
Details of the orchestra and how nearly a dozen musicians redid the original music score is also covered in the booklet. Behind the scenes photos are laden throughout the book also.
The plot is still potent today. Poor kids fighting on the streets, crime including murder and comedy mixed with drama very well. The single father / daughter relationship between Officer Rooney and Annie Rooney is sly and sentimental.
The zenith of vintage movie remastering has arrived!
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Mark Izzy Schurr
5.0 out of 5 stars Clever, classy and cool, a vintage girl power movie
Reviewed in the United States on July 4, 2023
This 2018 restoration from the Library of Congress was scanned in 4K high definition and the picture and musical score are phenomenal. This two DVD set includes a regular DVD and a Blue-Ray Disc. Both have a crisp and clear picture. Flicker Alley's version of 1925s "Little Annie Rooney" is impossible not to like because of the print quality.
Mary Pickford wrote the story and used her grandmothers name, Catherine Hennessey in the credits. I learned this from the nifty 23 page booklet included. The booklet also includes details on some of the actors in the movie, how the film was restored, and a picture of Helen Keller with the cast members.
Details of the orchestra and how nearly a dozen musicians redid the original music score is also covered in the booklet. Behind the scenes photos are laden throughout the book also.
The plot is still potent today. Poor kids fighting on the streets, crime including murder and comedy mixed with drama very well. The single father / daughter relationship between Officer Rooney and Annie Rooney is sly and sentimental.
The zenith of vintage movie remastering has arrived!
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Deema
5.0 out of 5 stars My Personal Review of Little Annie Rooney
Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2012
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It was one of Mary Pickford's best work, she was 32 years old but she did an incredible job at playing a 12 year old tough street girl with her very own gang, the dvd had an excellent quality and there were several different interesting pieces of music comical and ballad. this is a dvd any Mary Pickford fan will enjoy. plus the dvd has an international region
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Mr Peter G George
4.0 out of 5 stars Good film, good print, poor score
Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2003
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Little Annie Rooney is a fine Mary Pickford film. She plays a young girl growing up in a rough neighbourhood. The film starts with gang warfare erupting between the kids of the area. These scenes are played mainly for humour even if the missiles they throw at each other are bottles and bricks. No one is seriously hurt and the fighting is good-natured. Pickford does well in this rough-and-tumble battle and shows the tomboy character that is present in many of her films. She can hold her own with any boy and is not about to back down from a challenge. The fighting amongst the slum children is contrasted, in the film, with the more serious and dangerous world of the adult gangster. Annie Rooney is on the brink of growing up and falls for a gangster played by William Haines. But the path of her romance is far from smooth as the film mixes comedy, sentiment and heartbreak in equal measures.
Mary Pickford was in her thirties when she played Annie Rooney, but she could still be convincing playing a young girl. This is partly because she was so small. She is about the same size as the other kids and the adults tower over her. More importantly however, it is her acting which allows the viewer to believe that she really is still a child. The convention of adults playing children has passed into history and it may take some modern viewers a while to get used to it. But once you accept the convention, Pickford's charm and vitality sweeps you along and makes the story engaging, poignant and entertaining. Pickford's role in this film was not limited to acting. The story is credited to one Katherine Hennessey, but this "writer" was Pickford's grandmother who died in 1904. It was Mary who actually wrote the story.
The DVD of Little Annie Rooney is from Terra Entertainment a company which I had not heard of before in connection with silent films. The DVD has a few faults, but on the whole is a reasonable effort and worth the price. The film seems to be complete and the picture quality is very good. The print is in black and white and has very little in the way of apparent damage. The images are clear and sharp with lots of detail. Unfortunately one brief scene, lasting about a minute and a half, is inexplicably repeated. This is a pity as it rather spoils what is a fairly crucial scene in the film. However the worst thing about this DVD is the score. The sound quality is pretty horrible. It sounds like snatches of music from old records, played on a gramophone. At times this music works well, but it does not carefully follow the action of the film and thus it can be extremely inappropriate. For example during a tense part of the film the score plays "Jingle Bells". I'm glad I bought this DVD, as Little Annie Rooney is a very good Pickford film and the DVD's faults did not spoil my enjoyment of it too much. It has to be said though, that there are better Mary Pickford DVDs available than this one.
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wayne clark
5.0 out of 5 stars little annie rooney
Reviewed in the United States on February 14, 2013
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my friend told me about silent movies and i thought he was nuts about watching them,but now i am hook on them and mary pickford is one of my favorite,after watching this silent movie little annie rooney then i watch sparrow and i would say its her best,check her out
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Bob G.
3.0 out of 5 stars Weird Silent Movie
Reviewed in the United States on August 7, 2016
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weird watching one of the classic SILENT movies. Reminded me that the industry still hasn't got the sound tracks synchronized properly so that, when I buy a CDROM of a movie, the mouth movements often don't match when the sound appears. Same thing with the closed captioning on an awful lot of films. Meanwhile the tenements have gotten so much worse than depicted that the story line itself was awfully tame. Providing a three star rating out of respect for the early days of the film industry.
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James R. White
5.0 out of 5 stars MARY PICKFORD DVD
Reviewed in the United States on September 21, 2018
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WAS GREAT DVD THE SERVICE GOOD NO TROUBLE TO
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Old Guy Rules
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on December 10, 2014
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good old silent movie. Different times, different ways people acted.
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Robert Badgley
4.0 out of 5 stars One of my favourite of Mary's films,but the price is absurdly high.
Reviewed in Canada on January 14, 2020
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Little Annie Rooney(released Oct/25) starred,among others,Mary Pickford,William Haines,Walter James,and Gordon Griffith.While not a perfect Pickford film,it has charm galore and like all her best ones,runs the gamut from laughter to pathos to drama to everything in between.
The story finds Mary playing Annie Rooney living with her father, a cop and her brother,a future man of the force.Teenage Annie is as feisty an Irish girl as there ever was and much of the beginning of the film concerns the comical battles of her gang against a rival one, that taunts her with a verbal name calling that raises Annie's temper through the roof.
William Haines as Joe Kelly,is a few short years older than Annie and if there is anyone that can calm her down and quick,it is he.She has a huge crush on the boy.Joe though tends to hang around periodically with the wrong crowd,as does his younger brother.
During a dance Joe's hot headed brother gets very jealous of Joe dancing with his girl.An ex con just out of jail eggs him on and gives him a revolver to get even with.The ex con's girl cuts the lights and a shot rings out,but it isn't Joe who goes down but Annie's dad,who saw the light trouble and came in to investigate.
Back at the apartment Annie prepares a birthday celebration for her father who has just this day,of all days,turned 45.There is a knock at the door and Annie first stalls him(thinking the man is her dad) then says to come in only after hiding under the table.It is another policeman who has come bearing the sad news of her father's death.He is in tears and it is not too soon there after Annie is also.
To throw the cops off his tail,the ex con and Joe's brother(the shooter) spread the word that Joe Kelly is the one who pulled the trigger.Annie's brother learns of this and goes storming off to find Joe with a gun.Joe meanwhile drops by to see Annie and denies his involvement.Annie's brother returns and Joe high tails it away with her brother in pursuit.
Meanwhile with the aid of a witness's word,Annie's gang find out who the real shooter is,rounds up Joe's brother ,hauls him to the police station and explains the situation.While there, Annie's brother comes in explaining he just shot Joe Kelly.But Joe's brother is arrested, and Annie's brother is held until the outcome of the shooting is clear.Annie hears this and rushes to the hospital,and even though she's underage to give blood,without a donor they end up using Annie.Joe pulls through and in the end Annie and Joe go on to live happily ever after.
The only criticism I have about the film is that it tends to wander a littleand emphasizes the gang fights a bit too much,as comical as they are.The scene where Annie learns of her father's death is as touching as any that has ever been put on the screen.The policeman telling her starts crying ,then slowly but surely the realization sinks in and the tears start slowly then run into a torrent from Annie.Only Mary could portray real heart break as she does here,which goes to the viewers very soul.Her brother who has been listening to the policeman,with his back turned,finally comes to her after the cop leaves ,and as Mary's crying which had started to subside,it starts all over again.The scene fades out in her brothers arms,but it does exactly what it was meant to do.And if there isn't at least a tear or two in your eyes,you must be a mannequin.
As I said the scenes of the gang fight are quite cute and comical, and show the variety of ethnicity prevalent in the big cities.Also her scene going to save Joe with a blood transfusion while at first quite touching,slowly devolves into a heartfelt bit of levity as she thinks she is going to die.But Mary never lets go of the tenderness ; with her little will she writes and gives to one of her friends before she has the transfusion, and afterwards when the doctors realize Mary was,in her mind at least,giving up her life to save someone she loved.
The biggest bugaboo I have about this film isn't the film itself,but the price for this unit.It is totally unacceptable.It is certainly way over the average collectors reach.About 20 years ago the Mary Pickford Foundation released some of her films through Milestone films.In those you got the main feature film and a short,which cost in the $20-$30 range(Canadian).Then just a few short years back they released three main features and shorts in a two DVD pack which cost me $35.But now for around $45 we are getting just one film and that's it.Oh sure they put a fancy booklet in with it...whoopee.They could forgo the booklet,and sell the DVD and Blu Ray copies separately and half the price.Along with this they released Fanchon the Cricket, a 1915 film around 50 minutes long,and are selling it for more money than this!?? Ridiculous.This is shoot yourself in the foot stuff and out and out price gouging.The MPF has plans to release more films in the future, but it is my belief they won't have many takers at these inflated prices.And if no one supports their efforts, then no releases will be forthcoming.Someone at the MPF has got to rethink their plainly flawed strategy....and fast.The only reason I have a copy is because I was given an Amazon card for a Xmas gift.
In conclusion this is certainly one of Mary's most endearing films,and while not perfect it is a gem to be sure.A good cast supports Mary here and Mary,the one who can hit every emotion in a film and still have plenty of steam left over,is here with her full bag of tricks in full force,ready to have you eating out of the palm of her hand....and loving it.The biggest downer is the price of this unit,which considering what you get,is totally outrageous.For that it gets a big "0".For the film it gets a 4-4 1/2 stars.
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