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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-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 #: SF-5A
Length: 29:55
Year: 1914
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1910s
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Brute Force [a.k.a. Primitive Man] (1914) is a short silent drama film directed by D. W. Griffith, and starring Robert Harron and Mae Marsh. The film was shot in Chatsworth Park, Chatsworth, Los Angeles, California. It is a story of cavemen and dinosaurs, and perhaps the first live-action...
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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
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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-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 #: TFA-315I
Length: 2:50
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
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Candy, including Saf-T-Pops and Baby Ruth bars, is produced at the the Curtiss Candy Company in Chicago, Illinois.
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Clip #: SF-6A
Length: 26:41
Year: 1915
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1910s
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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 #: TFA-344B
Length: 24:44
Year: 1959
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
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Last Clear Chance is a 1959 American short film produced and directed by Robert Carlisle. Sponsored by Union Pacific Railroad, Last Clear Chance is a safety film intended to warn young drivers to be careful at railroad crossings.On the day young Alan receives his driver's license, Officer Hal...
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