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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-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-11B-2
Length: 4:04
Year: 1907
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1900s
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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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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 #: 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-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-1D
Length: 11:04
Year: 1911
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1910s
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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-11E
Length: 13:20
Year: 1915
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1910s
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Bessie Graham has been a sort of maid-of-all-work in her mother's boarding house for years. Determined to make a change, she tells her mother that she is going to strike out for herself and try to get a position in the city. Arrived in the city, she rents a cheap room and starts to look for...
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Clip #: TFA-98E
Length: 10:38
Year: 1953
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
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A family shops for a new car at a car dealership to replace their old sedan in the 1950's.
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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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