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| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Irene Castle and her director Frank Crane discussing a script on the set of either Vengence is Mine or Stranded in Arcady, two films they mad... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Taliaferro sits in an overstuffed chair and holds her pets still for the photographer. Original caption: "Mabel Taliaferro, Metro Star, in the library ... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Pearl Date (played by Pearl White) threatens Captain Ralph Payne (Ralph Kellard) with a piece of firewood as he struggles with Bertha Bonn (Marie Wayne) fo... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Kitty Gray (played by Grace Cunard) and Count Frederick (played by Francis Ford) stand in a dungeon and stare off-camera in horror in a scene still from Ep... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Three or more pioneer women and an older man in buckskin look in horror at a threat--indians?--that is beyond the frame of the photograph in this scene sti... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | In the foreground Ethel Grandin and Francis Ford embrace at the foot of a grave. Behind them are three covered wagons, numerous men and women on horseback,... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | In the left foreground Ethel Grandin is comforted by a U.S. Army cavalry officer. Behind them other officers and a woman standing by a Wells Fargo stagecoa... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Film still exterior of a group of people at a picnic. A man is holding a bear with a chain in the center of the image. Booths can be seen in background, on... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Film still of a group outdoors at a Fourth of July picnic. A man is chasing a small pig in the center of a group of people. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Film still of two men standing outdoors looking at a newspaper. A horse is tethered behind them. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Film still of a man seated at a roll-top desk in his office. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Film still of a male actor in a stage musical surrounded by actresses in matching costumes. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Film still of a picnic in "The Clod Hopper". Spectators are at a mule-riding attraction. There is a man on a mule in a enclosure, while a second man in a c... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Film still of a group of people, interior. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Film still of Interior bedroom with young woman in bed being comforted by a servant - a white actress in blackface. ("Black face" is written on the back of... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Film still of group of well-dressed men at a table playing a game of cards; money is on the table. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Kitty Gray (played by Grace Cunard) holds a knife and struggles with a ruffian, while behind them two men fight on the floor and a third escapes out the wi... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Grace Cunard (playing Kitty Grey) slips a note to Harry Mann as he examines a book with Francis Ford (playing Count Frederick) in a scene still from the Un... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Mack Sennett (in suit and derby) directs Chester Conklin (on his knees) as Ernest B. Schoedsack cranks a Moy & Bastie silent film camera for an unidentifie... |
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