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Scene still from "The Broken Coin"

Date: 1915
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...
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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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Scene still from "The Broken Coin"

Date: 1915
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...
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"Birth of a Nation" Street Battle

Date: 1915
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...
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Keystone Comedy Production Still

Date: 1915
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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Thomas Ince and William S. Hart production still

Date: 1915
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...
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Keystone Film Company Pool

Date: 1915
Description: Production still of the Keystone pool. On the far left is Mack Sennett, coatless, in derby and suspenders. On the far right is Adam Kessel, coatless, in a ...
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Edith Taliaferro and Florence Dagmar in a Scene Still

Date: 1915
Description: Nellie Nolan (left, played by Edith Taliaferro) and her friend Lou (Florence Dagmar) conspire to make Nellie appear to be the well-traveled heiress Ethel V...
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Scene Still from "Young Romance"

Date: 1915
Description: Surrounded by wealthy hotel guests dressed in formal evening wear, Nellie Nolan (played by Edith Taliaferro) learns that the person she is pretending to be...
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Outdoor Scene Still from "Young Romance"

Date: 1915
Description: Held against her will on a desolate island, Nellie Nolan (played by Edith Taliaferro) is forced to write her own kidnapping note by Spagnoli (Al Ernest Gar...
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Hotel Lobby Scene Still from "Young Romance"

Date: 1915
Description: Nellie Nolan (played by Edith Taliaferro) signs the register of an expensive resort hotel under the assumed name Ethel Van Dusen in a scene still from "You...
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Lobby Card for "Zudora"

Date: 1915
Description: Printed lobby card with hand-coloring for the Thanhouser silent film serial "Zudora."
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Joe Ray and Blanche Ring

Date: 1915
Description: Blanche Ring in riding clothes (playing Jessie Gordon) and, probably, Joe Ray (as Ramon Morales) in "The Yankee Girl" (1915).
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Frank McGlynn, Sr., and Miriam Nesbitt

Date: 1915
Description: Roger Davis (left, played by Frank McGlynn Sr.) and Effie Dorgan (played by Miriam Nesbitt dressed as a nun and holding a child) with an unidentified actor...
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Ethel Clayton and Joseph Kaufman in Scene Still

Date: 1915
Description: Ethel Clayton in a floor-length Japanese print dress and long white gloves flinches as Joseph Kaufman punches an unidentified actor in a scene still from "...
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Ethel Clayton and Joseph Kaufman in a Love Scene

Date: 1915
Description: Ethel Clayton, stretched out upon a chaise lounge, is being made love to by Joseph Kaufman in a love scene from "A Woman Went Forth" (Lubin 1915).
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Scene Still with Robert Warwick and Ruth Shepley

Date: 1915
Description: Jimmy Valentine (played by Robert Warwick) is down on one knee imploring forgiveness from Rose Fay (Ruth Shepley) in a heavily retouched scene still from "...
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Scene Still with Madge Evans and Robert Warwick

Date: 1915
Description: Jimmy Valentine (played by Robert Warwick) sleeps on the floor beside the bed of Rose Fay's baby sister (the child actress Madge Evans) in a heavily retouc...
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Publicity Still of George Beban

Date: 1915
Description: George Beban is in character as Pietro Massena, the Italian ditch digger in "The Alien." Beban wrote and acted in the stage version which was titled "The S...
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Enid Markey and Willard Mack Scene Still

Date: 1915
Description: Enid Markey, in a grass skirt, plays Kalaniweo, the Polynesian chief's daughter. Embracing her is Willard Mack playing David Harmon, a shipwrecked lawyer i...

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