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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-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-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-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-1F
Length: 7:55
Year: 1912
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1910s
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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-246B
Length: 20:33
Year: 1933
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1930s
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Film producer J. Stuart Blackton narrates this history of the motion picture, which incorporates clips from early silent and sound movies as well as first attempts at animation.
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Clip #: SF-17
Length: 17:36
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1920s
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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-8B
Length: 22:44
Year: 1916
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1910s
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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-9A
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Year: 1924
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1920s
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Will Rogers stars in "A Truthful Liar," a comedy short and finale of the Alfalfa Doolittle trilogy, produced by Hal Roach and directed by Hampton Del Ruth.
Directed by Hampton Del Ruth. With Will Rogers, Jack Ackroyd, R.O. Pennell, Jack Cooper.
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Clip #: SF-7A
Length: 13:23
Year: 1920
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1920s
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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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