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| 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: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Gloria Swanson backstage handling a Kliegl electric spotlight. She wears a plaid skirt and jacket. |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | The director (Reginald Barker, seated wearing knickers and over-the-calf socks), cameraman cranking a Bell & Howell model 2709 (most probably Percy Hilburn... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Left to right: Cecil B. DeMille (director), Anne Bauchens (film editor), Karl Struss (cinematographer, in glasses), Alvin Wyckoff (cinematographer), and ot... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Cinematographer Alvin Wyckoff stands next to his Bell & Howell model 2709 motion picture camera on a set for the Cecil B. DeMille silent feature "Fool's Pa... |
| 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: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Nell Craig playing Princess Vashti in the 1921 Fox production "The Queen of Sheba." |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | The Queen of Sheba, played by Betty Blythe, sits in a cart and holds a sword above her head in William Fox's "Queen of Sheba" (1921). |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Frederick A. Thomson (at left in straw hat), Charles J. Davis (cranking what appears to be a Moy & Bastie camera), J. Stuart Blackton (in cap and bow tie 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: | 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: | 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: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Thomas H. Ince gestures to a cameraman who is moving a Bell & Howell camera on its tripod. Over Ince's shoulder is William S. Hart in costume as a minister... |
| Date: | 08 23 1926 |
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| Description: | Director Fred Niblo poses between two unidentifed young women in front of a cameraman and his Debrie Interview motion picture camera in a Metro-Goldwyn-May... |
| Date: | 06 13 1928 |
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| Description: | Director Nick Grinde (in two-tone shoes) and 15 members of his film crew pose for a MGM production still. Present are a woman playing the harmonium (far le... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Earle Williams, Vitagraph star, studies a script in front of a bank of Cooper-Hewitt lights. |
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