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Clip #: SF-11D
Length: 8:45
Year: 1915
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1910s
Description:
A silent film about the kidnapping of a child.
Directed by Frank Cooley (as Fred Cooley)
Cast: Forrest Taylor - Black Pete, Ann Little - Carol Danforth (as Anna Little)
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Clip #: SF-3A
Length: 13:01
Year: 1915
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1910s
Description:
William S. Hart, Rhea Mitchell, J. Barney Sherry
aka Mr Silent Haskins. When Rhea Mitchell arrives in town and discovers she has inherited a saloon with dancing girls, she shuts it down. However, both William S. Hart and crooked gambler J. Barney Sherry want to marry her, so they play poker...
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Clip #: SF-4B
Length: 8:39
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1910s
Description:
Excerpts of daring scenes from silent adventure serial films including “Dirty Work at The Crossroads,” “The Fatal Ring,” “White Eagle,” “The Terrible People,” “The Man Without a Face,” “The Fast Express” and “The Fire Detective.”
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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-5A
Length: 29:55
Year: 1914
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1910s
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Brute Force [a.k.a. Primitive Man] (1914) is a short silent drama film directed by D. W. Griffith, and starring Robert Harron and Mae Marsh. The film was shot in Chatsworth Park, Chatsworth, Los Angeles, California. It is a story of cavemen and dinosaurs, and perhaps the first live-action...
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Clip #: SF-17
Length: 17:36
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1920s
Description:
A retrospective of the career of actor, screenwriter, producer and director William S. Hart, with clips from his films “Tumbleweeds” and “Hell’s Hinges.”
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Clip #: TFA-319K
Length: 3:42
Year: 1907
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1900s
Description:
Footage of a royal parade and meeting between King Edward VII, King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India, and Kaiser Wilhelm II, German Emperor and King of Prussia, circa 1907, in London.
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Clip #: SF-11A
Length: 12:31
Year: 1909
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1900s
Description:
The Lonely Villa is a 1909 American short silent crime drama film directed by D. W. Griffith. The film stars David Miles, Marion Leonard and Mary Pickford in one of her first film roles. It is based on the 1901 French play Au Telephone (At the Telephone) by André de Lorde. A group of criminals...
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Clip #: SF-2B
Length: 2:43
Year: 1904
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1900s
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Directed by and starring Georges Méliès. Through a rapid succession of drawings, ingenious disguises and soft dissolves, the director portrays a quick-sketch artist who transforms to various characters according to the static outlines on his chalkboard. The background of this picture...
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Clip #: TFA-220A
Length: 10:07
Year: 1939
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1930s
Description:
The daily life of a Watussi Prince and his family in 1930's Rwanda.
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