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| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Street scene from the film "The Birth of a Nation" featuring a battle between soldiers on foot and members of the Ku Klux Klan on horseback. The men on hor... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | J. Peverell Marley, cameraman (left), and Cecil B. DeMille, director (right), pose beside a Pathé motion picture camera mounted on a large tripod. An unide... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Director D.W. Griffith wears a straw hat and sits watching a scene being filmed in a production still that has been heavily retouched for print reproductio... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Essanay silent film director Harry Beaumont, wearing tinted pince-nez, watches Bryant Washburn and Hazel Daly act out a scene for "Filling His Own Shoes." ... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | On the left, cameraman Chester A. Lyons cranking a Bell & Howell model 2709 and director King Vidor seated next to his megaphone. On the right, a line of a... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "Charging that the Fox West Coast Theatres constitute an arrogant monopoly which seeks to stifle the endeavor of motion picture artists a... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Ruth Roland sits under an unbrella in a garden scene with actors and motion picture crew members around her. A Pathé camera stands on a platform. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "FROM ARTCRAFT PICTURES CORP. Pete Schmid. Elsie Ferguson, Artcraft's newest recruit gets her initial lessons in film technique from Geo... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Left to right: Cecil B. DeMille (director), Anne Bauchens (film editor), Karl Struss (cinematographer, in glasses), Alvin Wyckoff (cinematographer), and ot... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Rufus Stone (played by James Cooley) kisses the hand of Maxine (Christine Mayo) behind the back of her elderly husband, Wilfred Morgan (Joseph Burke), in a... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | The Queen of Sheba, played by Betty Blythe, sits in a cart and holds a sword above her head in William Fox's "Queen of Sheba" (1921). |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Frederick A. Thomson (at left in straw hat), Charles J. Davis (cranking what appears to be a Moy & Bastie camera), J. Stuart Blackton (in cap and bow tie a... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Pauline Starke (as Emmy) and Arthur Rankin (as Bud) pose in a production still from the 1925 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production "Sun-Up." Behind them are two o... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Antonio Moreno in make-up, jodhpurs, and an undershirt, sits under an umbrella along with a cameraman and a Bell & Howell camera with other cast and crew m... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "Cullen Landis, who has become one of the screen's most popular figures, used to be a camera-man, or cinematographer, as they say in Fren... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Thomas H. Ince gestures to a cameraman who is moving a Bell & Howell camera on its tripod. Over Ince's shoulder is William S. Hart in costume as a minister... |
| Date: | 08 23 1926 |
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| Description: | Director Fred Niblo poses between two unidentifed young women in front of a cameraman and his Debrie Interview motion picture camera in a Metro-Goldwyn-May... |
| Date: | 06 13 1928 |
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| Description: | Director Nick Grinde (in two-tone shoes) and 15 members of his film crew pose for a MGM production still. Present are a woman playing the harmonium (far le... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Democracy (played by Douglas Fairbanks) punches Prussianism (Bull Montana) on the jaw in a promotional still from "Sic 'Em, Sam" a short silent film made f... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "Mary Pickford getting tobacco and cigarettes for the soldiers. In addition to supplying her own adopted contingents, Miss Pickford has s... |
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