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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 #: 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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Clip #: SF-4A
Length: 28:52
Year: 1915
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1910s
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Chapter 5 from The Exploits of Elaine, a 1914 American film serial in the damsel in distress genre. Scientific detective Craig Kennedy uses his gadget-filled lab to discover the identity of the murderer of Elaine's father, who is known only as "the Clutching Hand." The In The Poisoned Room: The ...
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Clip #: SF-12D
Length: 18:31
Year: 1915
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1910s
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Jim Carson, a young Tennessee mountaineer, and Millie James, a mountain girl, are worried over the condition of Jim's mother. Millie nurses her tenderly. Jim's worry is increased by a note which he has received from John Calhoun, a miserly landowner, stating that, unless he pays the overdue rent ...
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Clip #: SF-12C
Length: 08:45
Year: 1915
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1910s
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A silent film about the kidnapping of a child.
Directed by Frank Cooley (as Fred Cooley)
Cast: Forrest Taylor - Black Pete, Ann Little - Carol Danforth (as Anna Little)
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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-11D
Length: 8:45
Year: 1915
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1910s
Description:
A silent film about the kidnapping of a child.
Directed by Frank Cooley (as Fred Cooley)
Cast: Forrest Taylor - Black Pete, Ann Little - Carol Danforth (as Anna Little)
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Clip #: SF-9B
Length: 14:40
Year: 1915
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1910s
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A young man tries to rescue his fiancee from kidnappers. Produced by Thomas Alva Edison. Bessie Learn, Warren Cook, Augustus Phillips, Harry Paddock, Carlton King.Unable to go to the pier to meet his daughter, Helen, who is expected on the Brazilian from Europe, the Hon. John Dearborn dispatches ...
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Clip #: SF-2E
Length: 18:29
Year: 1914
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1910s
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From Journal of the Outdoor Life By National Tuberculosis Association February 1914:
The plot of this year's picture, "The Temple of Moloch," is laid in a small village, the chief industries of which are some potteries, owned by Harrison Pratt. He also owns a group of dilapidated tenements,...
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Clip #: SF-6B
Length: 14:12
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1920s
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Part I of "Playmates," a 1918 American silent comedy film inspired by Charles Chaplin's "Easy Street,” featuring Oliver Hardy and directed by Charley Chase.
Billy West - Kid
Oliver Hardy - Kid (as Babe Hardy)
Bud Ross
Fay Holderness
Ethelyn Gibson
Ethel Marie Burton
Myrtle...
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