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The Wedding at Cana, a Scene From "Intolerance"

Date: 1916
Description: A crowded scene still from "Intolerance": Christ at the wedding at Cana with Howard Gaye as Christ, and with Bessie Love and George Walsh as the bride and ...
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Lenore Ulric and Frank Colvin in "Her Own People" Scene Still

Date: 1916
Description: Leonore Ulric as the American Indian girl Alona, "the half-breed daughter of a wealthy white man" (Moving Picture World 8/19/1916, p. 1268). She is in the ...
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Lenore Ulric in "The Road to Love"

Date: 1916
Description: In Algiers, Hafsa (played by Lenore Ulric) is on her knees in supplication to her father, Sidi Malik (Herschell Mayall). The caption typed on the back of t...
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Lenore Ulric in "The Road to Love"

Date: 1916
Description: Sitting cross-legged on the floor, the Algerian girl Hafsa (played by Lenore Ulric) is offered jewelry and fine fabrics. Also in the scene, there appear to...
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Lenore Ulric in "The Road to Love"

Date: 1916
Description: The Algerian girl Hafsa (played by Lenore Ulric) has joined hands with Zorah (Estelle Allen). Behind them are a servant and, apparently Lucille Ward (as Le...
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Lenore Ulric, Howard Davies, and Forrest Stanley in "The Heart of Paula"

Date: 1916
Description: In dishabille, Paula Figueroa (played by Lenore Ulric) crouches on a bed in terror as Emiliano Pacheco (Howard Davies) and Bruce McLean (Forrest Stanley) f...
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Forrest Stanley and Howard Davies in "The Heart of Paula"

Date: 1916
Description: Bruce McLean (played by Forrest Stanley) has been captured by the Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Pacheco (Howard Davies) and his followers.
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Pearl White, Ralph Kellard, and Marie Wayne in "Pearl of the Army"

Date: 1916
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...
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Harry Hilliard and Theda Bara in "Romeo and Juliet"

Date: 1916
Description: Romeo (played by Harry Hilliard), on his knees, clasps Juliet's (Theda Bara) hand in a romantic scene still in the Fox production "Romeo and Juliet" (Fox 1...
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"A Daughter of Caliente" Scene Still

Date: 1916
Description: Original caption on reverse of print reads: "Principals in Corsican drama, 'A Daughter of Caliente.' Douglas Gerrard, producer and actor and his leading l...
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"Tried for His Own Murder" Scene Still

Date: 1916
Description: Still from the 1916 Vitagraph film "Tried for His Own Murder," featuring Maurice Costello (playing Ransford) and Leah Baird (playing Irene Gardner). They s...
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"In a Looking Glass" Movie Still

Date: 1916
Description: The actress Nell Craig holds a revolver on Ernest Maupain while Richard Travers looks on in a scene still from the 1916 Essanay film "In a Looking Glass."
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William Gillette as Sherlock Holmes

Date: 1916
Description: Publicity still of William Gillette in costume as Sherlock Holmes for the 1916 Essanay silent film production "Sherlock Holmes," based upon the play Gillet...
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Tourists Visit Universal City

Date: 1916
Description: Seven well-dressed tourists visit Universal City and pose with actor Neal Hart who is in cowboy costume and has his horse nearby. A water tower is visible ...
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Clara Kimball Young and Edwin August

Date: 1916
Description: Sonia Sokoloff (played by Clara Kimball Young) in a flowing white gown is seated while Adolph Rosenheimer (Edwin August) is on one knee hanging onto the ar...
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Howard Davies and Myrtle Stedman Scene Still

Date: 1916
Description: The dissolute Herbert Lorrimer (played by Howard Davies) leers at Ruth Cleave (Myrtle Steadman) as they are served champagne by an African servant wearing ...
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Henry Woodruff, Rhea Mitchell, and Tsuru Aoki in a scene still

Date: 1916
Description: In this scene still for the silent drama "The Beckoning Flame," the Indian colonial administrator Harry Dickson (played by Henry Woodruff) and his English ...
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H. B. Warner and two other actors in a scene still

Date: 1916
Description: In a scene still for the silent drama "The Beggar of Crawnpore," H. B. Warner poses in character as Dr. Robert Lowndes, a British army doctor in India. He ...
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Apache dance hall scene still from "The Black Butterfly"

Date: 1916
Description: In an Apache dance hall with artists' sketches chalked upon the walls, the opera singer Sonia Smirnov (played by Olga Petrova) sits at a rough table surrou...
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Cast and crew for the silent film "Little Eve Edgarton"

Date: 1916
Description: Posed beside the Hotel del Coronado in Coronado, California, are the cast and crew of the 1916 silent drama "Little Eve Edgarton." Crouched in front in str...

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