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| Description: | Undated portrait of Roscoe Arbuckle, autographed as follows: Very Truly Yours, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle P.S. TO HELL WITH THE KAISER. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Director D.W. Griffith appears to be adjusting actor Robert Harron's moustache. Original caption: "Making up Bobbie." |
| Date: | 05 07 1923 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "D.W. Griffith rehearses Mae Marsh and Ivor Novello for scene in his forthcoming production of The White Rose in spot near Miami,... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Snapshot of J. Searle Dawley, Walter Hiers, and Billie Burke riding on top of a New York bus. Dawley is on the far left. Hiers sits next to Burke. An unkno... |
| Date: | 02 1919 |
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| Description: | Four of the founders of United Artists, Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, and D.W. Griffith. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | From left to right, Clarence Brown (director), Joseph M. Schenck, Rudolph Valentino (dressed for the role of Vladimir Dubrovsky), and Douglas Fairbanks, in... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "Universal Actor as Sculptor Ben Wilson spends leisure hours at favorite pastime--the making of statuary. Here he is modeling a statuet... |
| 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: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Publicity still for All Souls' Eve, a Realart silent film released in 1921. From left to right: the child actor Mickey Moore plays a harmonica, the ... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Albert E. Smith, one of the founders of the Vitagraph motion picture company, stands with a cigar in his mouth looking down at the silent film star Antonio... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Full page display ad for the husband and wife filmmaking team of John Emerson and Anita Loos in the 1918 edition of Wid's Yearbook, a motion picture trade ... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | John Ford in a detail from a group portrait of the cast and crew of the 1915 Universal serial "The Broken Coin". John, then about twenty-one years old, act... |
| 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... |
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