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Silent 1776

21 Saturday Nov 2015

Posted by la Clarina in Silents

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1776, D. W. Griffith, Mary Pickford, Silent Movies

BiographThere is something about these very early Biograph silent movies… Stories compressed in ten or twenty minutes, the transition in progress from stage to screen, an endearing amount of unreality and naïvety…

Take for instance The Hessian Renegades, from 1909 – with a very young Mary Pickford already showing much promise in one of D.W. Griffith’s earliest efforts: Continue reading →

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