Archive collection a Turner coup

A collection of rare, archival films has been snagged by Turner Classic Movies, Variety reports. The films will air during November sweeps in primetime on four separate Sunday evenings. National Film Preservation Foundation Director Annette Melville said the films “represent a cross-section of American filmmaking that flourished across the U.S. ever since the invention of the film camera. In addition to the November screenings, July will see the 1925 version of The Lost World, written by Sherlock Holmes inventor Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and starring Wallace Beery. October will feature the U.S. debut of famed Italian writer-director Gilberto Pontecorvo’s The Wide Blue Road, the first film Gillo wrote. Other rare prints include Orson Welles’ stage production of Voodoo “Macbeth”; a 1916 Western called Hell’s Hinges; and a World War II propaganda documentary The Battle of San Pietro from John Huston.