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Scene Still with Flora Finch, John Bunny, and Mary Anderson

Date: 1914
Description: Scene still from the Vitagraph production Father's Flirtation. From left to right are Flora Finch, John Bunny, and Mary Anderson. Bunny wears a bold...
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Scene Still with John Bunny and Louise Beaudet

Date: 1914
Description: Scene still from the Vitagraph production Father's Flirtation with John Bunny and Louise Beaudet. Bunny wears a boldly striped suit.
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Under Water Packing Crate Escape

Date: 1914
Description: Harry Houdini, born Erik Weisz in Hungary and raised as Erich Weiss in Appleton, Wisconsin, preparing to do one of his famous escapes, this time from a sub...
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Florence Lawrence in "The Pawns of Destiny"

Date: 1914
Description: Florence Lawrence watches as a young man with bandaged hands and face is transferred by two orderlies from a gurney onto a hospital bed. Also visible in th...
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Second Thanhouser Studio

Date: 1914
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...
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Early Photograph of Gene Kelly and Family

Date: 1914
Description: Harriet Curran Kelly and her four children in a studio portrait from about 1914. From left to right the children are Eugene, Harriet, Louise, and James. Wi...
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Office Scene Still from "Zudora"

Date: 1914
Description: John Storm (played by Harry Benham) is in a heated discussion with a police chief or some other authority (played by Morgan Jones) in a scene still from th...
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Store Scene Still from "Zudora"

Date: 1914
Description: John Storm (played by Harry Benham) talks to a cheese maker (Justus D. Barnes) in his shop in a scene still from the Thanhouser serial "Zudora." The print ...
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Crowd Scene Still from "Zudora"

Date: 1914
Description: A crowd is gathered in a courtroom in this scene still from the Thanhouser serial "Zudora." The blonde man on the far left is the actor N.Z. Wood. Zudora (...
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Outdoor Scene Still from "Zudora"

Date: 1914
Description: Hassam Ali (played by James Cruze) is evesdropping from behind a bush on his neice Zudora (Marguerite Snow) and John Storm (Harry Benham) in a scene still ...
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Basement Scene Still from "Zudora"

Date: 1914
Description: Zudora (played by Marguerite Snow) sits at a table while John Storm (Harry Benham) practices with a semi-automatic pistol in a candlelit basement in a scen...
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Basement Scene Still from "Zudora"

Date: 1914
Description: In a candlelit basement, John Storm (played by Harry Benham) loads bullets into a pistol magazine in a scene still for the Thanhouser serial "Zudora." The ...
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Courtroom Scene Still from "Zudora"

Date: 1914
Description: John Storm (played by Harry Benham) slaps a moustached man (Arthur Bauer) with a piece of paper while a judge, witness (John Reinhard, rear right), court c...
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"Zudora" Stars Publicity Still

Date: 1914
Description: Stars of the Thanhouser serial "Zudora." From left to right James Cruze, Marguerite Snow, and Harry Benham.
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After a Fight, Scene Still from "Zudora"

Date: 1914
Description: Actor Harry Benham points accusingly at a ruffian on the floor as two police officers subdue two criminals in a scene still from the Thanhouser serial "Zud...
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Hands Up in a Scene Still from "Zudora"

Date: 1914
Description: Actor Harry Benham covers two ruffians with two pistols as Marguerite Snow ministers to an insensible young man on the floor in a scene still from the Than...
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Kathlyn Williams, Charles Clary, Bessie Eyton, and Harry Lonsdale

Date: 1914
Description: Kathlyn Williams, in a checked winter coat and carrying a suitcase, walks away from two men and a woman on the front steps of a Victorian house in a scene ...
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Scene still with Francis X. Bushman for "Ashes of Hope."

Date: 1914
Description: Fred Willard, a theatrical manager played by Francis X. Bushman, is in the dressing room of Zalata, a dancer played by Ruth Stonehouse. Reflected in the mi...
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Mary Pickford and James Kirkwood in a scene still for "Behind the Scenes"

Date: 1914
Description: An aspiring actress, Dolly Lane (played by Mary Pickford) longs for the stage but feels trapped on the farm of her husband Steve Hunter (played by James Ki...
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Mary Pickford and large group of actors in a rehearsal onstage

Date: 1914
Description: The young actress Dolly Lane (played by Mary Pickford) rehearses onstage with a dozen or so other actors in the chorus in a scene still for the silent dra...

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