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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: | Production still of Olga Petrova and her director George Irving looking over the script for "Daughter of Destiny." Next to them is a Bell & Howell model 27... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | The actor Paul Kelly (playing Hank Simpson) sits next to director Edward H. Griffith in front of a cameraman and his Debrie motion picture camera in a prod... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| 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." ... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "Director Paul Scardon, discussing the script of a new Blue Ribbon feature with the players in the cast. Reading from left to right; Pau... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Mack Sennett, in a dark suit, and two technicians stand by a Prestwich camera on the set of an unidentified Middle Eastern themed Keystone Comedy. A belly ... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "Director Phillips Smalley (third from the left), rehearsing his players in Brand Whitlock's story being filmed at Universal City. The ju... |
| 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 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: | Silent film actress Marguerite Clark sits in a wicker chair and knits on a set for "Bab's Burglar." Behind her is a Pathé 35mm motion picture camera on a t... |
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