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| 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: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Sherlock Holmes (played by John Barrymore) and Alice Faulkner (Carol Dempster) in a night-time scene still for the 1922 silent film version of "Sherlock Ho... |
| 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: | 1919 |
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| Description: | This appears to be a "Kitty Kelly, M.D." production still from 1919. If so, the cameraman behind the Bell & Howell model 2709 is probably Eugene Gaudio. Th... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | On the left, cameraman Chester A. Lyons cranking a Bell & Howell model 2709 and director King Vidor seated next to his megaphone. On the right, a line of a... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "Photographing Norma Talmadge on the Highest Spot in New York" "The patient still man has caught Norma Talmadge and her leading man Euge... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Ruth Roland sits under an unbrella in a garden scene with actors and motion picture crew members around her. A Pathé camera stands on a platform. |
| 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... |
| 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: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Rufus Stone (played by James Cooley) kisses the hand of Maxine (Christine Mayo) behind the back of her elderly husband, Wilfred Morgan (Joseph Burke), in a... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Pauline Starke (as Emmy) and Arthur Rankin (as Bud) pose in a production still from the 1925 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production "Sun-Up." Behind them are two o... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Florence La Badie (sitting on stage in light coat and hat), Carl Leviness (leaning against stage with megaphone), and Harry Benham (far right looking up at... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | An outdoor studio used by the Eclair American Company while making silent films. Shown are four or five actors in a restaurant set on a low platform covere... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "Mary Pickford getting tobacco and cigarettes for the soldiers. In addition to supplying her own adopted contingents, Miss Pickford has s... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "Wallace Reid, Paramount star, his wife, formerly Dorothy Davenport, and their son William Wallace Reid Jr., otherwise known as Bill, at ... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "Mr. Warner's spare moments are divided between cleansing his car and photographing his baby while Mrs Warner devoted herself to photogra... |
| 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... |
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