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Billy Bitzer and D. W. Griffith

Date: 1919
Description: Cameraman G. W. "Billy" Bitzer and director D. W. Griffith on location in the snow filming Way Down East (Griffith, 1920). Bitzer stands behind a Pa...
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Irene Castle and Frank Hall Crane on a film set.

Date: 1917
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...
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Lucian Muratire, Lina Cavalieri, and William de Mille

Date: 1919
Description: The opera stars Lucian Muratire, French tenor, and his wife Lina Cavalieri, Italian soprano, visit film director William de Mille who is posed with a Bell ...
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Dorothy Phillips, a Capuchin Monkey, and a Bell and Howell Motion Picture Camera

Date: 1922
Description: Original title: "This is one of the rare snapshots which a photographer gets only once in a peagreen moon. Dorothy Phillips, star of Allen Holubar's Th...
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Mickey Moore, Mary Miles Minter, Chester Franklin, and Faxon Dean

Date: 1921
Description: Production still from All Souls' Eve, a Realart silent film released in 1921. Seated on a cushion on the floor, Chester Franklin is directing a ten...
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"Citizen Kane" Production Still

Date: 1941
Description: Production still during the filming of "Citizen Kane." Orson Wells smokes a pipe and directs Dorothy Comingore (playing Susan Alexander Kane) from a wheel...
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MGM Studio Booth

Date: 08 1928
Description: A man operates a Mitchell camera from inside an MGM sound booth as Raquel Torres and Nils Asther perform seated in front of lights and a microphone. Direct...
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"The Goddess" Production Still

Date: 1915
Description: Cameraman Jules Cronjagger and director Ralph Ince shoot a scene with Earle Williams (as Tom Barclay) and Anita Stewart (as Celestia, the Goddess) in the V...
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"The Broken Coin" Production Still

Date: 1915
Description: Group shot of the cast and crew for the Universal serial "The Broken Coin," taken after shooting the final scene. Grace Cunard and Francis Ford are in the ...
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"A Star is Born" scene still

Date: 1937
Description: Scene still of a fictional camera and sound crew shooting Frederic March (playing actor Norman Maine) and Janet Gaynor (as Vicki Lester) on set in David O....
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Second Thanhouser Studio

Date: 1914
Description: Production still showing how three or more silent film scenes could be simultaneously filmed under the glass roof of the Thanhouser studio. The print is ca...
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Kathlyn Williams and Bell & Howell Camera

Date: 1920
Description: Actress Kathlyn Williams wearing an evening dress sits in William C. de Mille's director's chair holding his small megaphone. Behind her is one of the Bell...
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J. Peverell Marley, Cecil B. DeMille, and Camera

Date: 1922
Description: J. Peverell Marley, cameraman (left), and Cecil B. DeMille, director (right), pose beside a Pathé motion picture camera mounted on a large tripod. An unide...
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Olga Petrova and George Irving

Date: 1917
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...
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D.W. Griffith Directing Miriam Cooper

Date: 1916
Description: D.W. Griffith, wearing a straw hat, directs Miriam Cooper in "Intolerance." Cameraman Billy Bitzer is obscured by the Pathé camera he is cranking. Behind h...
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D.W. Griffith, Frank E. Woods and Billy Bitzer

Date: 1916
Description: Director D.W. Griffith, seated with straw hat and large megaphone, confers with scriptwriter Frank E. Woods (bending, wearing a cloth cap), and cameraman G...
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Billy Bitzer and D.W. Griffith

Date: 1920
Description: Cameraman G.W. Bitzer and director D.W. Griffith stand in the snow on a New Jersey street in a publicity still for "Way Down East." They are posed with Bit...
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D.W. Griffith Production Still

Date: 1916
Description: Director D.W. Griffith wears a straw hat and sits watching a scene being filmed in a production still that has been heavily retouched for print reproductio...
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"Fit to Fight" Production Still

Date: 1917
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...
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Production Still with Harry Beaumont, Bryant Washburn and Hazel Daly

Date: 1917
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." ...

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