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| Date: | 1921 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| 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... |
| 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: | 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: | 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: | 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: | 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: | Production still of the Keystone pool. On the far left is Mack Sennett, coatless, in derby and suspenders. On the far right is Adam Kessel, coatless, in a ... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | From left to right: Douglas Fairbanks, Charlie Chaplin, Oscar Amos Price, president of the United Artists Corporation, and Mary Pickford. Mr. Chaplin expla... |
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