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Clip #: SF-6B
Length: 14:12
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1920s
Description:
Part I of "Playmates," a 1918 American silent comedy film inspired by Charles Chaplin's "Easy Street,” featuring Oliver Hardy and directed by Charley Chase.
Billy West - Kid
Oliver Hardy - Kid (as Babe Hardy)
Bud Ross
Fay Holderness
Ethelyn Gibson
Ethel Marie Burton
Myrtle...
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Clip #: SF-4A
Length: 28:52
Year: 1915
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1910s
Description:
Chapter 5 from The Exploits of Elaine, a 1914 American film serial in the damsel in distress genre. Scientific detective Craig Kennedy uses his gadget-filled lab to discover the identity of the murderer of Elaine's father, who is known only as "the Clutching Hand." The In The Poisoned Room: The ...
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Clip #: SF-8A
Length: 31:46
Year: 1913
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1910s
Description:
Granddad is a 1913 American film directed by Thomas H. Ince.
Mildred lives with her grandfather, Civil War veteran Jabez Burr,who she loves deeply. One day she receives a letter from her father saying that he has remarried. Mildred's stepmother finds out that Jabez is a heavy drinker and...
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Clip #: SF-11E
Length: 13:20
Year: 1915
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1910s
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Bessie Graham has been a sort of maid-of-all-work in her mother's boarding house for years. Determined to make a change, she tells her mother that she is going to strike out for herself and try to get a position in the city. Arrived in the city, she rents a cheap room and starts to look for...
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Clip #: SF-11C-2
Length: 7:53
Year: 1913
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1910s
Description:
Roscoe's sister brings her two boys over to his office -- he's a doctor in this one, with a nice beard, and a manner like Ford Sterling -- while she goes out shopping. He doesn't like them and they don't like him and spend a lot of time and effort in ruining his practice.
Directed by George...
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Clip #: SF-3C
Length: 29:55
Year: 1914
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1910s
Description:
The Perils of Pauline, Chapter 3, Part 4, starring Pearl White. Young Pauline is left a lot of money when her wealthy uncle dies. However, her uncle's secretary has been named as her guardian until she marries, at which time she will officially take possession of her inheritance. Meanwhile, her...
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Clip #: SF-2C
Length: 16:23
Year: 1912
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1910s
Description:
When a Red Cross worker asks a prominent small-town banker for a donation to help fight tuberculosis the banker scoffs, saying that TB is a disease of poor people in the cities, not the kind of people you find in small towns. It's not long before he finds out just how wrong he is.
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Clip #: TFA-191D
Length: 14:27
Year: 1958
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
A french educational film about the region drained by the Seine river in France
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Clip #: TFA-9A-5
Length: 17:35
Year: 1936
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1930s
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17:37:01 - 17:41:31 >>> Sumatra ?? - Vintage car comes down road, western men get out at a stone stele, ZI to “AEQUATOR” sign on side. Radiator of auto is filled with crude arrangement of pipes. Sign at roadside “Paloepaoeh”. Western man at lakeside throws food into water and myriad...
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Clip #: TFA-29H
Length: 12:41
Year: 1921
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1920s
Description:
A tour of Granada Spain by Burton Holmes
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