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Clip #: SF-11A
Length: 12:31
Year: 1909
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1900s
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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...
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Clip #: SF-1A
Length: 12:56
Year: 1909
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1910s
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A Corner in Wheat is a 1909 American short silent film which tells of a greedy tycoon who tries to corner the world market on wheat, destroying the lives of the people who can no longer afford to buy bread. It was directed by D. W. Griffith and adapted by Griffith and Frank E. Woods from a novel ...
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Clip #: SF-2A
Length: 7:15
Year: 1904
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1900s
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A family moves out to the 'peaceful' suburbs where everything goes wrong, including the mother-in-law moving in. The Suburbanite is a 1904 American short comedy silent film directed by Wallace McCutcheion and starring John Troiano. The film was produced and distributed by the American Mutoscope...
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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 #: MF-15A
Length: 14:59
Year: 1931
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1930s
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1931 American crime movie directed by Joseph Levering and starring Catherine Dale Owen, John Holland and Robert Gleckler, about police trying to infiltrate a gang of racketeers who have moved from New York.
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Clip #: MF-15B
Length: 13:47
Year: 1931
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1930s
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1931 American crime movie directed by Joseph Levering and starring Catherine Dale Owen, John Holland and Robert Gleckler, about police trying to infiltrate a gang of racketeers who have moved from New York.
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Clip #: SF-1B
Length: 21:32
Year: 1910
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1910s
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A young girl looking for work, is hired by a farmer's wife to work as a maid. A smooth talking peddler comes by the farm, and flirts with the young maid. He gives the naive girl an engagement ring and promises to marry her. When the peddler runs up some gambling debts, he visits the maid again...
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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 #: SF-6A
Length: 26:41
Year: 1915
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1910s
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Part II of “The Gilded Cage,†a 1916 silent film drama romance directed by Harley Knowles and starring Alice Brady.
Alice Brady - Princess Honore
Alec B. Francis - King Comus
Gerda Holmes - Queen Vesta
Montagu Love - Baron Stefano
Arthur Ashley - Capt. Kassari
Sidney...
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Clip #: SF-5B
Length: 27:14
Year: 1916
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1910s
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Part I of “The Gilded Cage,†a 1916 silent film drama romance directed by Harley Knowles and starring Alice Brady.
Alice Brady - Princess Honore
Alec B. Francis - King Comus
Gerda Holmes - Queen Vesta
Montagu Love - Baron Stefano
Arthur Ashley - Capt. Kassari
Sidney D'Albrook ...
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