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Her Awakening
''Her Awakening'' is a 1911 American short silent drama film starring Mabel Normand and directed by D. W. Griffith. Normand portrays a vivaciously effervescent young woman ashamed to introduce her poorly dressed mother to her elegant suitor. This early drama helped launch Normand's career and is believed to have been her second film and first substantial role. The supporting cast features Harry Hyde, Kate Bruce, Donald Crisp and Robert Harron. The film was produced by the Biograph Company when it and many other early film studios in America's first motion picture industry were based in Fort Lee, New Jersey at the beginning of the 20th century and was exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the most populous city in the United States, located at the southern tip of New York State on one of the world's largest natural harbors. The city comprises five boroughs, each coextensive w ... in 2006 as part of a one- ...
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Biograph Company
The Biograph Company, also known as the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, was a motion picture company founded in 1895 and active until 1916. It was the first company in the United States devoted entirely to Filmmaking, film production and exhibition, and for two decades was one of the most prolific, releasing over 3000 short films and 12 feature films. During the height of silent film as a medium, Biograph was the most prominent U.S. film studio and one of the most respected and influential studios worldwide, only rivaled by Weimar culture, Germany's Universum Film AG, UFA, Sweden's Svensk Filmindustri and French Third Republic, France's Pathé. The company was home to pioneering director D. W. Griffith and such actors as Mary Pickford, Lillian Gish, and Lionel Barrymore. Founding The company was started by William Kennedy Dickson, an inventor at Thomas Edison's laboratory who helped pioneer the technology of capturing moving images on film. Dickson left Edison in Apr ...
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Frank Evans (actor)
Frank Evans (c. 1849 – March 11, 1934) was an American actor. He appeared in 170 films between 1908 and 1927. Selected filmography * '' The Vaquero's Vow'' (1908) * '' Nursing a Viper'' (1909) * '' The Woman from Mellon's'' (1910) * '' A Mohawk's Way'' (1910) as Trapper * ''The Modern Prodigal'' (1910) as guard * '' Swords and Hearts'' (1911) * '' The Goddess of Sagebrush Gulch'' (1912) * '' The Musketeers of Pig Alley'' (1912) * '' Won by a Fish'' (1912) * '' One Is Business, the Other Crime'' (1912) * '' The Narrow Road'' (1912) * ''Fate'' (1913) * '' The Yaqui Cur'' (1913) * '' The Woman in Black'' (1914) * '' Her Maternal Right'' (1916) * '' The World's Great Snare'' (1916) * '' The Argyle Case'' (1917) * '' Oh, Johnny!'' (1918) * '' High Pockets'' (1919) * '' The Flaming Clue'' (1920) * '' The Tiger's Cub'' (1920) * ''Experience Experience refers to Consciousness, conscious events in general, more specifically to perceptions, or to the practical knowledge and familiarity ...
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Short Films Directed By D
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Biograph Company Films
Biograph may refer to: * Biograph Company, a motion picture company founded in 1895 and active until 1916 * An early form of the cinematograph, made by the Biograph Company * Biograph girl, a nickname given to some early silent film actresses featured in films of the Biograph Company * Biograph Studios, a studio facility and film laboratory complex built in 1912 by the Biograph Company in the Bronx, New York * Biograph Theater, a historic Chicago movie theater * Biograph Records, a record label founded in 1967 that specialized in American ragtime, jazz, and blues * ''Biograph'' (album), a 1985 box set compiling music by Bob Dylan * The Biograph The Biograph was a repertory movie theatre in the Georgetown (Washington, D.C.), DC neighborhood of Georgetown. Opened on September 30, 1967 in the shell of the Nash auto dealership, it closed in 1996. History Alan Rubin was one of its cofound ...
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American Black-and-white Films
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1910s English-language Films
Year 191 ( CXCI) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Apronianus and Bradua (or, less frequently, year 944 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 191 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Parthia * King Vologases IV of Parthia dies after a 44-year reign, and is succeeded by his son Vologases V. China * A coalition of Chinese warlords from the east of Hangu Pass launches a punitive campaign against the warlord Dong Zhuo, who seized control of the central government in 189, and held the figurehead Emperor Xian hostage. After suffering some defeats against the coalition forces, Dong Zhuo forcefully relocates the imperial capital from Luoyang to Chang'an. Before leaving, Dong Zhuo orders his troops to loot the tombs of the Han emperors, and then destroy Luoy ...
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1910s American Films
Year 191 ( CXCI) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Apronianus and Bradua (or, less frequently, year 944 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 191 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Parthia * King Vologases IV of Parthia dies after a 44-year reign, and is succeeded by his son Vologases V. China * A coalition of Chinese warlords from the east of Hangu Pass launches a punitive campaign against the warlord Dong Zhuo, who seized control of the central government in 189, and held the figurehead Emperor Xian hostage. After suffering some defeats against the coalition forces, Dong Zhuo forcefully relocates the imperial capital from Luoyang to Chang'an. Before leaving, Dong Zhuo orders his troops to loot the tombs of the Han emperors, and then destroy Lu ...
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1911 Short Films
Events January * January 1 – A decade after federation, the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory are added to the Commonwealth of Australia. * January 3 ** 1911 Kebin earthquake: An earthquake of 7.7 Moment magnitude scale, moment magnitude strikes near Almaty in Russian Turkestan, killing 450 or more people. ** Siege of Sidney Street in London: Two Latvian people, Latvian anarchists die, after a seven-hour siege against a combined police and military force. Home Secretary Winston Churchill arrives to oversee events. * January 4 – Comparison of the Amundsen and Scott expeditions, Amundsen and Scott expeditions: Robert Falcon Scott's British Terra Nova Expedition, ''Terra Nova'' Expedition to the South Pole arrives in the Antarctic and establishes a base camp at Cape Evans on Ross Island. * January 5 – Egypt's Zamalek SC is founded as a general sports and Association football club by Belgian lawyer George Merzbach as Q ...
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1911 Films
The year 1911 in film involved some significant events. __TOC__ Events *February: '' The Motion Picture Story Magazine'', the first American film fan magazine, is published. It is followed later in the year by ''Photoplay''. *April 8: Winsor McCay releases his first film ''Little Nemo'', one of the earliest animated films. *October 23 (October 10 OS): Svetozar Botorić's '' The Life and Deeds of the Immortal Leader Karađorđe'' (''Život i dela besmrtnog vožda Karađorđa'', Живот и дела бесмртног вожда Карађорђа) premieres in Belgrade and becomes the first feature film made in Serbia and the Balkans. *October 26: '' Defence of Sevastopol'' («Оборона Севастополя») premieres at the Crimean palace of Tsar Nicholas II and becomes the first feature-length film made in the Russian Empire and one of the first in the world. It is also the first known film to use a multiple-camera setup (2 cameras) *October 27: David Horsley' ...
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Kate Toncray
Kate Toncray (1867 – December 6, 1927) was an American actress of the silent era. She appeared in more than 170 films between 1905 and 1925. She was born in St. Louis, Missouri and died in Manhattan, New York City.Bibliographical Dictionary of Silent Film Western Actors and Actresses by George A. Katchmer
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Selected filmography

* '' A Smoked Husband'' (1908) * '' A Flash of Light'' (1910) * '' His Trus ...
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Marion Sunshine
Marion Sunshine (born Mary Tunstall Ijames,} May 15, 1894 – January 25, 1963) was an American actress and songwriter. During her youth she worked in many films and Broadway musicals, as well as vaudeville and variety shows. In the 1930s she was involved in the so-called "rhumba craze" and translated the lyrics of many Latin music songs. Life and career Sunshine was born in Louisville, Kentucky on May 15, 1894. After moving to New York City at a young age, she sang in Broadway musicals such as '' Going Up''. Between 1908 and 1916 she appeared on 26 films. In many of her performances she appeared with her sister Florence Tempest. Sunshine also worked as a vaudeville performer, and as a songwriter for Edward B. Marks. In 1922, while working in the Ziegfeld Follies, she became romantically involved with Cuban businessman Eusebio Azpiazú, known in the Latin music scene as Don Antobal. His brother Justo Ángel Azpiazú, better known as Don Azpiazú, was a prominent band leader i ...
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