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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-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 #: SF-3A
Length: 13:01
Year: 1915
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1910s
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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-7C
Length: 21:36
Year: 1926
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1920s
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Officer 444 is a 1926 film serial directed by Francis Ford and Ben F. Wilson, produced by Goodwill Productions and released by the independent Davis Distributing Division. Officer 444, a heroic policeman, does battle with The Frog, a criminal mastermind who is trying to get his hands on...
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Clip #: SF-11C-2
Length: 7:53
Year: 1913
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1910s
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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-4B
Length: 8:39
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1910s
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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 #: TFA-40B
Length: 10:22
Year: 1937
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1930s
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An animated cartoon about touring in a trailer. Farmer Al Falfa and his dog take their new modern travel trailer on a vacation. The trailer is packed with push button gags and gadgets, including a cruising cafeteria and self-turning griddle cakes. Bees smell the breakfast and attack. Al Falfa is ...
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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 #: MF-32A
Length: 8:51
Year: 1938
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1930s
Description:
Wild animals at Gay's Lion Farm in El Monte, California and recreational amusements including a woman being fired from a cannon, people skydiving and water skiing.
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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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