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Biograph shorts : [a collection of early works by the cinema's most influential pioneer].

Call Number

  • DVD 791.43 B6153 (CEN)

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Edition

Special ed.

Performers

Florence Lawrence, Marion Leonard, Mary Pickford, Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish.

Publication Information

New York, NY : Kino on Video, c2002.

Physical Description

2 videodiscs (362 min.) : si., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

This selection of motion pictures by D.W. Griffith traces his rapid, unparalleled development as a filmmaker during his five year stint at the Biograph Company - a development that contributed substantially to the emergence of film as a powerful form of cultural expression.

Notes

DVD format.

Videodisc release of silent films produced between 1908 and 1913 at the Biograph Company.

Not rated.

Subtitle and additional title from container.

Contents

  • Disc one: Those awful hats (1909)
  • The sealed room (1909)
  • Corner in wheat (1909)
  • The unchanging sea (1910)
  • His trust (1911)
  • The New York hat (1912)
  • An unseen enemy (1912)
  • The mothering heart (1913). Bonus shorts: The adventures of Dollie (1908)
  • The usurer (1910)
  • Enoch Arden (1911)
  • The miser's heart (1911).
  • Disc two: The musketeers of Pig Alley (1912)
  • The burglar's dilemma (1912)
  • The sunbeam (1912)
  • The painted lady (1912)
  • One is business, the other crime (1912)
  • Death's marathon (1913)
  • The battle at Elderbush Gulch (1913). Bonus shorts: The last drop of water (1911)
  • Friends (1912)
  • The lesser evil (1912)
  • The massacre (1912).

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