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This is the grave of William S. Hart. Born in 1864 in Newburgh, New York, Hart started working in acting in New York City in the late 1880s. The first.
This is the grave of Harold Lockwood. Born in 1887 in Brooklyn, Lockwood grew up middle class in Newark. He started his work life in the import-export business, but hated.
I always love the recovery of lost films and this story on early footage from Ireland really made me want to see the films. Hopefully I will have that opportunity..
Imagine yourself at the movies in the 1910s. By this point, there are real cinemas. You are going to go there with your family, or your friends, or your girl/boyfriend..
It's hard to put the Progressive Era more succinctly than the 1912 film The Land Beyond the Sunset, about a boy who has a terrible home life and who gets.
The reason D.W. Griffith was a great filmmaker isn't that he had a great moral message, though he most certainly thought of himself as a liberal. Being a pro-Confederate liberal.
This remarkable Alice Guy Blaché film from 1912, Making an American Citizen, is a story in four parts. It shows an eastern European peasant and his wife becoming Americans. In.
An old favorite of mine for tonight, with an emphasis on old. This brilliantly creative 1909 film is a lot of fun. https://www.youtube.com/embed/_UvG5ItVzxc Hard out there for the smoker.