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Clip #: MF-24A
Length: 16:06
Year: 1927
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1920s
Description:
Silent drama about the writing of the song "The Star Spangled Banner."
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Clip #: SF-12A
Length: 24:23
Year: 1925
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1920s
Description:
Captain Dangerfield and Captain Barr are rivals in an upcoming boat race. Barr is excited about his innovative plans for his boat, but his work is proceeding slowly, and he is hampered by his inept assistant. Meanwhile, Dangerfield is plotting to sabotage his rival. Just before the race,...
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Clip #: SF-7A
Length: 13:23
Year: 1920
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1920s
Description:
A silent film western.
Director: Warren Gordon
Writers: Ruth Buchanan Sachs (story), Jerome N. Wilson (scenario)
Stars: Romaine Fielding, William H. Tooker, Velvet Beban
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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-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-8B
Length: 22:44
Year: 1916
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1910s
Description:
A lovable scoundrel is busted for gambling and thrown into jail, where he dreams of playing poker - but even in his dreams, he loses.
Director: Bert Williams
Writer: Bert Williams
Stars: Bert Williams, Wes Jenkins
Our story centers upon the activities of a Negro fraternal organization, the...
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Clip #: TFA-93D
Length: 12:28
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1920s
Description:
A film about Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and the places associated with his life.
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Clip #: SF-1A
Length: 12:56
Year: 1909
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1910s
Description:
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-1B
Length: 21:32
Year: 1910
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1910s
Description:
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-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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