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| 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: | 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: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Marguerite Clark looks through the viewfinder of a Pathé motion picture camera in a publicity still. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | From left to right: Charlotte Shelby (mother of Mary Miles Minter), Mrs. E.M. Miles (mother of Charlotte Shelby), and Mary Miles Minter, the silent film st... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Essanay silent film star Bryant Washburn in U.S. Army sergeant's uniform sits on the grass with his little son Bryant Washburn, Jr., and his wife, the actr... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | From a high angle, this snapshot shows actors, crew, and bystanders at an open-air studio under canvas diffusers at Universal City. The cameraman stands be... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Dick Mason (played by George Walsh) confronts the corrupt, monocle-wearing Count Vortsky (Edward Cecil) as Princess Alexia (Enid Markey) and Baron Maravitc... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Princess Alexia (played by Enid Markey in an elaborately decorated dress and wearing a crown) marches arm in arm with Dick Mason (George Walsh) in a scene ... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Roma Winnet and Bob Lawson (played by Virginia Pearson and Irving Cummings) embrace in a scene still from "Wrath of Love." |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Allen Cotter (played by Allan Sears) looms over Paula Letchworth (Seena Owen) in a scene still from "A Woman's Awakening." |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Charlie Chaplin, in tuxedo, surrounded by guests in the party scene from "The Adventurer." He is speaking to Marta Golden who holds a feather fan. In the b... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | In this scene still from Chaplin's 1917 silent film "The Adventurer," Eric Campbell, made-up with large eyebrows, beard, and moustache, closely scrutinizes... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | The six year old child actor Francis Carpenter, as Aladdin, holds the lamp and looks up in a scene still from the 1917 William Fox production "Aladdin and ... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Jack Stanton and Faimeh Fitzgerald (played by Antonio Moreno and Edith Storey) flirt through a screen in a publicity still for "Aladdin from Broadway." The... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Faimeh Fitzgerald (played by Edith Storey) cautions Jack Stanton (Antonio Moreno) as he hangs on the rope of a well in a publicity still for "Aladdin from ... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Amad (played by Otto Lederer in beard and turban) watches as his wife Faimeh (Edith Storey) threatens to do herself harm with a dagger in a scene still for... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Jack Stanton (played by Antonio Moreno) is being married to Faimeh (Edith Storey) in a Turkish ceremony in a scene still from "Aladdin from Broadway." More... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Robert Walker and Viola Dana pose on a rocky beach in a publicity still for "Aladdin's Other Lamp." |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Robert Walker and Viola Dana pose holding hands on a rocky beach in a publicity still for "Aladdin's Other Lamp." |
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