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| Date: | 1919 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| 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... |
| 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: | 1920 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| 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... |
| 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: | 1916 |
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| 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... |
| 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... |
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