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On Tuesday, a newly restored print of the 1925 silent comedy-drama &quot;Little Annie Rooney&quot; will be screened at the James Bridges Theater. A Q&amp;A will follow with two of the film&#039;s preservationists and Andy Gladbach, who composed a new original soundtrack. (United Artists)

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Academy preservationists develop old film in new light

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Feisty little urchin Annie Rooney has to fight on the grimy streets of 1920s New York to avenge her father’s murder in the movie “Little Annie Rooney.” Ninety years after the release of the silent comedy-drama starring Mary Pickford, preservationists from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have teamed up with the Mary Pickford Foundation to develop a new, high-definition print of the movie, which will be screened at the James Bridges Theater on Tuesday.

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Academy preservationists develop old film in new light

By William Thorne

Oct. 28, 2015 11:54 p.m.