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Directing a Movie

Date: 04 17 1928
Description: Mr. Sutton and Fay directing a scene for the movie "American Girl." Eight people are standing in front of an Oakland automobile and airplane, and four more...
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Directing a Movie

Date: 04 17 1928
Description: Mr. Sutton and Fay directing a scene for the movie "American Girl." Three people are standing in front of an automobile parked next to an airplane at Pennc...
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Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, and D.W. Griffith

Date: 02 1919
Description: Four of the founders of United Artists, Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, and D.W. Griffith.
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Clarence Brown, Joseph M. Schenck, Rudolph Valentino, and Douglas Fairbanks

Date: 1925
Description: From left to right, Clarence Brown (director), Joseph M. Schenck, Rudolph Valentino (dressed for the role of Vladimir Dubrovsky), and Douglas Fairbanks, in...
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Scene Still with Melina Mercouri and Jules Dassin from Pote tin Kyriaki (Never on Sunday)

Date: 1960
Description: Homer Thrace (played by Jules Dassin) is inflating a globe for the prostitute Ilya (Melina Mercouri) whom he is trying to educate in Dassin's Pote tin K...
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François Truffaut and Jean-Pierre Cargol in L'enfant sauvage (The Wild Child)

Date: 1970
Description: Scene still of François Truffaut, as Dr. Jean Itard, and Jean-Pierre Cargol, as the wild child Victor, in Truffaut's L'enfant sauvage (The Wild Child,
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"Citizen Kane" Production Still

Date: 1941
Description: Production still during the filming of "Citizen Kane." Orson Wells smokes a pipe and directs Dorothy Comingore (playing Susan Alexander Kane) from a wheel...
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Actors and Director John Ford

Date: 1956
Description: Director John Ford (in glasses and a hat) on the set of the film "The Searchers," with actors including John Wayne (left) and Doris del Rio. Behind them st...
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John Ford

Date: 1915
Description: John Ford in a detail from a group portrait of the cast and crew of the 1915 Universal serial "The Broken Coin". John, then about twenty-one years old, act...
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J. Peverell Marley, Cecil B. DeMille, and Camera

Date: 1922
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...
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Production Still with Harry Beaumont, Bryant Washburn and Hazel Daly

Date: 1917
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." ...
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"Our Boys in France Tobacco Fund"

Date: 1918
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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Tom Moore, Alice Joyce Moore, and Owen Moore

Date: 1918
Description: Silent film actor Tom Moore, his little daughter Alice Moore, and his brother the actor Owen Moore.
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Paramount's 1926 Honor Roll

Date: 1926
Description: Original caption: "'That's where our names will be next time,'is the solemn vow of this group of Paramount players and directors before the company's 1926 ...
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Production Still with Jack Mulhall and Marguerite Clark

Date: 1920
Description: In this production still for "All of a Sudden Peggy," Jack Mulhall and Marguerite Clark kneel and act a scene in front of a tapestry. In the foreground, Wa...
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Production Still with Mickey Moore, Mary Miles Minter, and Chester Franklin

Date: 1921
Description: Seated on a cushion on the floor, Chester Franklin directs a tender scene with the child actor Mickey Moore (Michael D. Moore) and Mary Miles Minter in a p...
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Alfred Hitchcock and Walter Wanger

Date: 1940
Description: Alfred Hitchcock stands next to Gertrude Hoffman who is smiling and holding a birthday cake. Walter Wanger stands to the right of the woman, and Herbert Ma...
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Gloria Swanson, Elinor Glyn, Sam Wood, and Rudolph Valentino, production still in costume

Date: 1922
Description: Costumed for an 18th century fantasy scene for the silent drama "Beyond the Rocks" are Gloria Swanson, Rudolf Valentino, and a host of extras in the backgr...
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Citizen Kane Set

Date: 1941
Description: Orson Welles directs Agnes Moorehead in a scene from the film Citizen Kane. Welles is sitting on the camera crane behind the camera operator. The ca...
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Louis Hayward and James Whale

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Description: Actor Louis Hayward and director James Whale during the production of the 1939 film "The Man in the Iron Mask." Both men are sitting at a table on set, wit...

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