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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 #: SF-11B-5
Length: :05
Year: 1913
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1910s
Description:
An excerpt from the ninth episode of the serial "What Happened to Mary.”
Directed by J. Searle Dawley and Walter Edwin
Written by Bannister Merwin and James Oppenheim.
Cast: Mary Fuller, Charles Ogle, Barry O’Moore, William Wadsworth
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Clip #: SF-6A
Length: 26:41
Year: 1915
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1910s
Description:
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 D'Albrook -...
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Clip #: SF-11B-6
Length: :26
Year: 1912
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1910s
Description:
An excerpt from the fourth episode of the serial "What Happened to Mary.”
Directed by Charles Brabin (as Charles J. Brabin.)
Written by Bannister Merwin and James Oppenheim.
Cast: Mary Fuller, William Wadsworth, William Bechtel
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Clip #: SF-11F
Length: 10:15
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1910s
Description:
A silent film that takes place near a railroad line.
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Clip #: SF-5B
Length: 27:14
Year: 1916
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1910s
Description:
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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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-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-1F
Length: 7:55
Year: 1912
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1910s
Description:
Mr. Hobb's secretary and Mrs. Hobb's maid are sweethearts, but Mr. Hobbs has a tender feeling for his wife's maid, while Mrs. Hobbs forms a liking for Hobbs' secretary. Both are fired for an offense of which they are quite innocent, and while strolling in the park taking pictures with a Kodak,...
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Clip #: SF-1E
Length: 17:34
Year: 1912
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1910s
Description:
Part Two of a silent Western film directed by D.W. Griffith. Mexican Jim, a good-for-nothing of the mining camp, spends most of his time in the tavern of the little town. On this particular day, having drunk up more than usual, he quarrels with Jack Hardy, a young prospector. Jack, under other...
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