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| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Esther Meyers (played by Vera Gordon) discovers her son Robert Meyers (Harry Benham) and Aida (Belle Bennett) embracing in the kitchen. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Esther Meyers (played by Vera Gordon) tries to reconcile her two sons, on the left Robert Meyers (Harry Benham) and on the right Harry Meyers (Stanley... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | John Storm (played by Harry Benham) is in a heated discussion with a police chief or some other authority (played by Morgan Jones) in a scene still from th... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | John Storm (played by Harry Benham) talks to a cheese maker (Justus D. Barnes) in his shop in a scene still from the Thanhouser serial "Zudora." The print ... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | A crowd is gathered in a courtroom in this scene still from the Thanhouser serial "Zudora." The blonde man on the far left is the actor N.Z. Wood. Zudora (... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Hassam Ali (played by James Cruze) is evesdropping from behind a bush on his neice Zudora (Marguerite Snow) and John Storm (Harry Benham) in a scene still ... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Zudora (played by Marguerite Snow) sits at a table while John Storm (Harry Benham) practices with a semi-automatic pistol in a candlelit basement in a scen... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | In a candlelit basement, John Storm (played by Harry Benham) loads bullets into a pistol magazine in a scene still for the Thanhouser serial "Zudora." The ... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | John Storm (played by Harry Benham) slaps a moustached man (Arthur Bauer) with a piece of paper while a judge, witness (John Reinhard, rear right), court c... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Scene still of an enormous, elaborate winter set populated by scores of dancers designed by Joseph Urban for "The Young Diana." |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Dr. Dimitrius (played by Pedro de Cordoba) looks meaningfully at Diana May (Marion Davies) who clings to Commander Richard Cleeve (Forrest Stanley) in a sc... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "This might be a demonstration of a clubby way to sharpen a carving knife, or it might be nothing but a snapshot of Helene Chadwick and R... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Berta Nordstrom (played by Anita Stewart) struggles with John Mathison (Ward Crane) in a scene still from "The Yellow Typhoon" (1920). |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Hilda Nordstrom (played by Anita Stewart) comforts an aged woman in a wheelchair, probably Mother Nordstrom, in a scene still from "The Yellow Typhoon." |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Margaret Vane (played by Norma Talmadge) stands by her dressing table and fusses with the little Pomeranian dog held by her maid in a scene still from "Yes... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Dick Mason (played by George Walsh) confronts the corrupt, monocle-wearing Count Vortsky (Edward Cecil) as Princess Alexia (Enid Markey) and Baron Maravitc... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Princess Alexia (played by Enid Markey in an elaborately decorated dress and wearing a crown) marches arm in arm with Dick Mason (George Walsh) in a scene ... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Myra and Bryan (played by Pauline Frederick and Irving Cummings) are locked in an embrace in a highly retouched scene still from "The World's Great Snare." |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Pauline Frederick as Myra, wearing a kimono, reacts to the signs of her dissipation scattered on a table: playing cards, cigarettes, whiskey, the remains o... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Jack Thomas (played by Bryant Washburn) is falsely accused by Philip Cole (Patrick Calhoun) as his young ward Elsa Thomas (Marguerite Clayton) watches in a... |
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