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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 #: 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-1D
Length: 11:04
Year: 1911
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1910s
Description:
The sequel to "His Trust." The opening scene takes place four years afterwards. The war has closed, and the negroes leave to enjoy their emancipation, but George remains true to his trust. He has all these years cared for the widow and her child. The poor woman, worn with worry and heartache is...
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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 criminals...
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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-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-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 #: TFA-211G-3
Length: :36
Year: 1899
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1890s
Description:
Fictional Edison Manufacturing Company film from 1899 of men fighting over a poker game in a gambling house in the Yukon gold country.
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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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Clip #: SF-11B-2
Length: 4:04
Year: 1907
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1900s
Description:
1907 silent drama directed by Edwin S. Porter
A miner's cabin in the mountains. Mines don't pan out, Gambler offers money for the hand of daughter. The insult. The stranger appears. The blow. Girl shows stranger to main road. They part. Stranger shot by gambler in ambush. Gambler escapes....
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