Filmed on location in Rome at a then-staggering cost of $100,000, The Eternal City was based on the best-selling historical...
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1915
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In keeping with its philosophy of "famous players in famous plays," Adoph Zukor's company Famous Players-Paramount hired...
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1915
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1915
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As a rule, Pauline Frederick was better than her material in her Famous Players vehicles of the pre-1920 era, and Sold was...
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1915
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The Greek legend of Niobe, who was turned to stone because of her monumental ego, was the basis for this wry comedy-fantasy....
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1915
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Normally the very picture of femininity, Marguerite Clark was persuasively masculine in the dual "britches" role of...
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1915
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Mary Pickford was in the first flush of her screen superstardom when she appeared in this adaptation of Grace Miller White's...
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Cinematographer, Director, Screenwriter
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1914
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Cinematographer, Director
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1914
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No relation to the same-named Arthur Miller play, the 1915 Paramount production The Crucible was based on a novel by Mark Lee...
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1914
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Famous Players earned themselves a suit for plagiarism with this four-reel shipwreck melodrama, which was ostensibly written...
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1914
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Set in the apparently always topical Balkans, this humorous Mary Pickford vehicle presented the star as the Queen of...
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1914
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1913
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1913
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Based on the classic revenge tale by Alexander Dumas, this film was one of the first feature-length American movies, and...
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1912
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1912
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1911
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The title emotion of this early silent melodrama belonged to Lois Weber, a married woman discovering that the young man with...
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1911
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Director, Screenwriter
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1910
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Given the tightening of copyright laws by 1910, it is safe to assume that Edison doled out a substantial sum to Bret Harte...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1910
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The dramatis personae of this Edison one-reeler is spelled out in its title. An elderly toymaker insists that his pretty...
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1910
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Having risen to prominence with The Great Train Robbery, the Edison studios continued turning out "railroad" pictures for the...
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1910
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Edison's House of Cards takes place Out West -- west of the Hudson River, that is. Sent to town with his boss' weekly payroll...
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1909
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1908
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1908
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1908
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In 1907, pioneering Edison director Edwin S. Porter turned out such landmark films as Rescued from an Eagle's Nest and The...
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1907
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In this period short film steeped in ethnic comedy, confusion reigns as the Cohen Millenery shop loses a parcel newly...
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1907
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A historically important early silent film, The Life of a Cowboy was produced by the Edison Company on Staten Island, New...
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1907
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Edwin S. Porter's The "Teddy" Bears was a "novelty" film, using stop-motion animation to tell its story. Seven toy teddy...
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1907
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1906
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A popular, patriotic short from the nickelodeon days of the silent era, Three American Beauties was shot by Edwin S. Porter...
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1906
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1905
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1905
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1905
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An early short devoted to the ethnic comedy of the day, as a Jewish clothes merchant (depicted in a broad stereotypical...
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1904
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Filmed by Edwin S. Porter at Thomas Edison's New York studio on July 23, 1903, The Gay Shoe Clerk is notable for its early...
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Cinematographer, Director
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1903
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Director Edwin S. Porter made film history when he completed the 13 sequences for the 12-minute The Great Train Robbery,...
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Cinematographer, Director, Screenwriter
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1903
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Cinematographer, Director, Screenwriter
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1903
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1902
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1902
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1901
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1901
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1901
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1901
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This critically vital work emerged from the hand of film pioneer Edwin S. Porter, just after the assassination of President...
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1901
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A film history video. It contains three examples of early films by Edwin S. Porter, from the Edison Company. ~ Rovi...
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