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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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Man Films Workers on Farm

Date: 1915
Description: A man uses a camera mounted on a tripod to film another man and two boys near a farm building. The man and boys appear to be constructing a silo. Two horse...
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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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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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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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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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Paul Scardon, Franklyn Hanna, Corrinne Griffith and Earle Williams

Date: 1917
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...
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Bessie Barriscale, Howard Hickman and Jack Holt Production Still

Date: 1919
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...
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"The Daughter of the Gods" Production Still

Date: 1916
Description: From left to right: Cameraman J. Roy Hunt with a Pathé camera, Annette Kellerman (seated), and director Herbert Brenon pointing to a caravan scene in the v...
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"Martha's Vindication" Production Still

Date: 1916
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...
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"The Adventures of Ruth" Production Still

Date: 1919
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.
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Keystone Comedy Production Still

Date: 1915
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...
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Keystone Oriental Set Production Still

Date: 1917
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 ...

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