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Title:

Biographs shorts [videorecording].

Format:

[videorecording].

Publisher:

Kino on Video,

Copyright Date:

c2002

Description:

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

Subject:

Silent films
Short films.

Other Authors:

Griffith, D. W. (David Wark), 1875-1948.
Shepard, David.
Kino International Corporation.
Biograph Company.

Notes:

Originally produced from 1909-1913. Title from container. Licensed for individual viewing only.

Contents:

Disc 1. The miser's heart. The sealed room -- Corner in wheat -- The unchanging sea -- His trust -- The New York hat -- An unseen enemy -- The mothering heart -- The adventures of Dollie -- The usurer -- Enoch Arden -- The miser's heart.
Disc 2. The massacre. The burglar's dilemma -- The sunbeam - The painted lady -- One is business, the other crime -- Death's marathon -- The battle at Elderbush Gulch -- The last drop of water -- Friends -- The lesser evil -- The massacre.

Summary:

The selection of motion pictures in this two-disc set traces D.W. Griffith's 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.

Series:

Griffith masterworks : twenty-three complete films

OCLC:

(OCoLC)52072817

Locations:

O3AX572 -- Cornell College - Russell D. Cole Library (Mount Vernon)