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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-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 #: MF-15C
Length: 11:21
Year: 1929
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1920s
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An expectant father grows increasingly anxious while he waits for his baby to be born.
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Clip #: SF-3C
Length: 29:55
Year: 1914
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1910s
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The Perils of Pauline, Chapter 3, Part 4, starring Pearl White. Young Pauline is left a lot of money when her wealthy uncle dies. However, her uncle's secretary has been named as her guardian until she marries, at which time she will officially take possession of her inheritance. Meanwhile, her...
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Clip #: SF-12A
Length: 24:23
Year: 1925
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1920s
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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-7D
Length: 22:28
Year: 1928
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1920s
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The Garden of Eden is a 1928 silent film starring Corinne Griffith. It was adapted from Avery Hopwood's short-lived stage production.
Corinne Griffith - Toni LeBrun
Louise Dresser - Rosa
Lowell Sherman - Henri D'Avril
Maude George - Madame Bauer
Charles Ray - Richard Dupont/Spanyi
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Clip #: SF-11B-6
Length: :26
Year: 1912
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1910s
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An excerpt from the fourth episode of the serial "What Happened to Mary.”
Directed by Charles Brabin (as Charles J. Brabin.)
Written by Bannister Merwin and James Oppenheim.
Cast: Mary Fuller, William Wadsworth, William Bechtel
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Clip #: SF-11B-3
Length: 3:03
Year: 1916
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1910s
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Pearl of the Army is a 1916 American silent film serial directed by Edward José. The Pathé-Astra film was made when many early film studio and film producers in America's first motion picture industry were based in New Jersey's Hudson River towns, particularly Fort Lee.
Directed by Edward...
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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-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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