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| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Film still - interior - actress and actor standing together; no set beyond carpet on the floor. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Film still - interior - actress and actor standing together; no set beyond carpet on the floor. |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Film still - interior - actress wrapped as a mummy. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A menacing Sessu Hayakawa looms over a terrified Fannie Ward in a scene from the silent film "The Cheat" (Paramount 1915). In the upper right hand corner, ... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Film still of interior scene, exotic atmosphere, with actor and two actresses, one in Indian costume with turban. |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Film still of interior scene, exotic atmosphere, with actor and group of actresses, all in Indian costume with turban. |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Film still of exterior garden with two actors in Indian costume with turbans in conversation. |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Film still of exterior garden with three actors, two in Indian costume with turbans. One actress in Indian costume. One actor in "colonial" costume. |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Film still of interior palatial scene with large group of actors and actresses dancing and celebrating in Indian costumes, some with turbans. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | The Bostock Arena and Jungle, part of David Horsley's Centaur motion picture studio and animal attraction in Los Angeles, c. 1915. "The Moving Picture W... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Photograph of the winter studios of the Kalem Company showing outbuildings on the grounds of the Roseland Hotel on the St. Johns River near Jacksonville, F... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | The Dixieland Theatre in South Jacksonville, Florida, before it was converted by the Gaumont Company into a film studio. |
| 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: | 1916 |
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| Description: | General view of the American Film Company studio located at State Street and Mission Street in Santa Barbara, California. The American Film Company, also k... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of D.W. Griffith's motion picture studio in Mamaronek, New York. Griffith bought the 28-acre estate of Henry Flagler on Orienta Point in 1919 a... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Lila Lee (as Annette Ainsworth) confronts the camera with a loaded revolver in a scene still from the 1919 Famous Players silent film "A Daughter of the Wo... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Publicity still of William Gillette in costume as Sherlock Holmes for the 1916 Essanay silent film production "Sherlock Holmes," based upon the play Gillet... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Kitty Gray (played by Grace Cunard) holds a knife and struggles with a ruffian, while behind them two men fight on the floor and a third escapes out the wi... |
| 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: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Grace Cunard (playing Kitty Grey) slips a note to Harry Mann as he examines a book with Francis Ford (playing Count Frederick) in a scene still from the Un... |
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