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| 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: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Street scene from the film "The Birth of a Nation" featuring a battle between soldiers on foot and members of the Ku Klux Klan on horseback. The men on hor... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | The dissolute Herbert Lorrimer (played by Howard Davies) leers at Ruth Cleave (Myrtle Steadman) as they are served champagne by an African servant wearing ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | The child actors Jane Lee and her sister Katherine divide a man's pajama top and bottom between them in a cute scene still for "American Buds." |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Juana de Castalar (played by Alma Reubens) has her hand kissed by Blaze Derringer (Douglas Fairbanks) in a scene still for "The Americano." Reubens is cost... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Mary Miles Minter plays the orphan Anne Shirley in a scene still for "Anne of Green Gables." She is costumed as a young girl with pigtails and freckles and... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Louise Fazenda holds baby Don Marion who holds a revolver on Eddie Gribbon who is held about the waist by Billy Bevan in a scene still for the Mack Sennett... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Ethel Clayton, playing Ruth Wingate, stands between a cab driver or chauffeur and another man to whom she speaks, who may well be the actor John Ince. A cr... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | John Hamilton (played by Herschel Mayall) sits on a couch with two children: Roland, who is in a sailor suit, played by Francis Carpenter and Rose, who is ... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | From left to right, digging in beach sand, are Olive Johnson, Violet Radcliffe, Teddy the Dog, and Francis Carpenter in a scene still for the 1915 silent s... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | With their backs to the camera, Olive Johnson, Teddy the Dog, and Francis Carpenter stand on the shore and look out to sea in this scene still for the 1915... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | In this scene still for the 1915 silent short film "The Baby," Teddy the Dog lies on the beach and looks out at the Pacific. Baby Guerin has been placed on... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | In a kitchen with a counter covered with baking supplies, Louise Fazenda entertains the child actor John Henry, Jr. with a snake made of dough in a scene s... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Tucked in bed, the orphaned baby Toodles (played by Bruce Guerin) is attended by Sally Lockwood (Leatrice Joy) who is the secretary of Richard Chester (Tho... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Actress Mae Gaston gives a baby doll to a poor flower girl as an older and more prosperous girl looks on in a scene still from the 1915 Reliance film "The ... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Actress Jennie Lee bends over a small flower girl who wears a kerchief on her head. They stand on the front porch of an impoverished house in this scene st... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | The Arab chieftan Benchaalal (played by Pedro de Cordoba) romances the English noblewoman Lady Wyverne (Elsie Ferguson) in a scene still for the silent fil... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | English noblewoman Lady Wyverne (played by Elsie Ferguson) poses on a balcony in a Moorish palace and offers her hand to Arab chieftan Benchaalal (Pedro de... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | English noblewoman Lady Wyverne (played by Elsie Ferguson) displays herself with a dreamy look on her face and her left arm posed above her head. She wears... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | English noblewoman Kathryn, Lady Wyverne (played by Elsie Ferguson), sits on the edge of a rustic well in a scene still for the 1917 silent film "Barbary S... |
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