the fugitive ( 1910 film )
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the fugitive
( 1910) director d. w. griffith, cinematographer billy bitzer
the fugitive
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survival status: prints exist in the library of congress film archive [ 35mm nitrate negative, 35mm paper positive ]; in the george eastman museum film archive; and in the film holdings of film preservation associates [ 35mm preservation negative ] .
in may it won the silver award at the 2015 international independent film awards .
at the accolade global film competition. of equal merit is the inclusion of the documentary in the official selection of the san jose international short film festival in october 2015. in december
the fugitive is a 1910 american drama film directed by d. w. griffith. prints of the film survive at the film archive of the library of congress and at george eastman house. the script was by john macdonagh, who would later fight in the easter rising under the command of his brother, thomas macdonagh, one of the seven signatories of the proclamation of the irish republic, who would be executed by the british along with 15 other leaders after the rising .
love among the roses (dir. d. w. griffith, 1910 )
the fugitive
is a short civil war drama directed by d. w. griffith. this film illustrates the work of our star cinematographer billy bitzer .
dorothy west looks on as her fiance leaves for the front in
the fugitive
( 1910), directed by d. w. griffith, cinematographer billy bitzer .
clara bracy and edwin august bid farewell in the union camp in
the fugitive
( 1910), directed by d. w. griffith, cinematographer billy bitzer .
edward dillon enthusiastically shows his confederate uniform to kate bruce in
the fugitive
( 1910), directed by d. w. griffith, cinematographer billy bitzer .
won the extremely prestigious diamond award at the 2015 california film awards. the amazing run of recognition for our documentary continued in 2016. in february it was included in the official selection of the buffalo niagara international film festival .
! in march 2015 it won the distinction
award of merit
at the san francisco film awards .
kate bruce and dorothy west in the confederate camp rejoice at some good news from the front in
the fugitive
( 1910), directed by d. w. griffith, cinematographer billy bitzer .
clara bracy and lucy cotton in the union camp also rejoice at some good news from the front in
the fugitive
( 1910), directed by d. w. griffith, cinematographer billy bitzer .
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the unchanging sea (1910) - mary pickford - d. w. griffith | g. w. bitzer
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references: film credits, film viewing: barry - griffith p. 42; sloan - loud p. 148; spehr - american p. 2; usai - griffith - 4 p. 211: website - afi .
there are hundreds of films from 1910 that survive but are not on dvd. making a list of 1910 films available on dvd / bluray is a useful exercise, but for all surviving films you' ll need access to the fiaf archive database .
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[ … ] she grows into a somewhat bouncy dorothy west (from “the house with closed shutters” and “the fugitive”), who attracts the hand of the lawyer’s young cousin from england. george, having fulfilled [ … ]
biograph company production; distributed by biograph company. / scenario by john mcdonagh. cinematography by g. w. bitzer. / © 14 november 1910 by biograph company [ j147671 ]. released 7 november 1910. / standard 35mm spherical 1. 33: 1 format .
[ … ] of a union soldier (charles west, who wore the opposite uniform in “swords and hearts” and “the fugitive”), rather than a confederate. the storyline roughly parallels that of the red badge of courage [ … ]
[ … ] movie sets the stage in a similar manner to the earlier d. w. griffith short, “the fugitive, ” but with the advantage of more time to develop character. two families are presented, one [ … ]
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( 1928) as a fugitive disguised as a boy and living among hobos. but her reputation rests on two silent german classics, gw pabst’s subtle, mature
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, a pastiche of a monochrome hollywood movie of the 20s, has created a welcome new interest in the silent cinema. it’s probably inspired by real - life lovers john gilbert, whose star waned when the talkies came, and greta garbo, who became even more successful when her first sound film proclaimed “garbo talks! ”. she made one film in her native sweden and a second in germany before coming to hollywood. the camera loved her, and she made 10 silent films in five years, the greatest being
the stoneman family finds its friendship with the camerons affected by the civil war, both fighting in opposite armies. the development of the war in their lives plays through to lincoln' s assassination and the birth of the ku klux klan .
as strong and powerful a western drama as ever released by this firm. there are strong dramatic crises which are developed to the utmost and are made as much of by the capable actors as possible. and there is a dash and go to the entire picture which makes it stirring at times. there is a love story connected with it which gives it a heart interest and serves to develop and maintain a human, not a wholly curious interest. details are worked out with careful attention. the acting is sympathetic and the photography helps to make it a complete and satisfactory film, certain to please an audience. - the moving picture world, april 2, 1910
( 1921). featuring a famous tango, it’s his best film. often a parody of what people think of as silent movie acting, valentino became an exotic heart - throb with gleaming eyes and flaring nostrils, in
( 1864 - 1946) although born in new york, the serious, leathery hart grew up travelling the late 19th - century west with his father, an itinerant miller. so when after some years on broadway he entered film, aged 49, he brought profound personal knowledge of the old frontier to the western, giving the genre an uncommon realism and moral power. he embodied “the good - bad man”, a figure in search of redemption, and reached his peak with
five years before his controversial epic the birth of a nation, d. w. griffith directed this relatively muted melodrama of two johns fighting in the civil war (one for the union and the other for the confederacy). both men say goodbye to mothers and sweethearts and make haste for overgrown battlefields. a desperate fight between the two johns results in the union boy seeking refuge with his confederate counterpart' s mother. the relatively simple story may rely heavily on coincidence but griffith' s early mastery of pacing and parallel editing makes the fugitive an affecting fable of sacrifice and forgiveness. - max goldberg
the cricket on the hearth
( 1909) director d. w. griffith
neither should you assume that, just because a movie has ratings, it is extant. there is an unfortunate number of titles with ratings and even reviews that have truly not been seen for decades, even a century for 1910 films. bob
yours is a laudable though sisyphean task, dan. for starters, i regularly see silent features and shorts at various film festivals and, when later looking them up online, see that they appear not to exist! imdb, understandably, has massive holes everywhere and in the case of the bfi, not all of its holdings are even listed in its own database. the same pattern repeats in archives around the world .
the son of a wealthy tobacco farmer leaves the plantation to fight for the confederacy. he loves a well - heeled belle but the daughter of the
poor white class
frets over him while he' s away .
this movie was shot on a limited number of sets in new jersey in the winter, and that may have limited the use of outdoor setups. there are some nice panoramas, i assume of the hudson river area, but the porches of the two homes appear to simply be the same set shot from the opposite angle. the editing is less taut than we saw in “the house” or than would be the case in other griffith shorts. overall, it seems that the story suffers from a rather conventional approach, and there isn’t much here to pull it out of its banality. one historical footnote is that the original story was written about the fighting in ireland, and that the writer himself died in 1916 during the rising there, fighting for the green side against the orange .
a little girl for the union shelters a confederate soldier, thereby initiating a chain of events that symbolically repairs the damages wrought by the civil war .
in the middle of the american civil war, in a peaceful valley, a foraging union soldier meets a confederate picket and shoots him. what will the confederate soldier' s mother do when she discovers the refugee she has sheltered may have killed her child? griffith, reviled for the racism of birth of a nation, sometimes by those familiar with the work and sometimes by those who have no idea what is in that movie, saw the civil war as a tragedy for all americans, full of complex problems for which there were no solutions. the fugitive, although not one of his best works, has been made available on dvd by kino and is well worth your viewing time .
directed by d. w. griffith produced by biograph company scenario by j. mcdonagh cinematography billy bitzer starring kate bruce, edward dillon, clara t. bracy, edwin august, dorothy west distributed by biograph company release date november 7, 1910 running time 17 min. country united states language silent, english intertitles
thanks greta. that was quick! as i went through imbd' s lists of films released in 1910 i thought it was safe to skip titles with no ratings but now i see that' s a lazy approach. can you recommend any reference materials that might be an easier way for me to compile my lists. i' m trying to do this for every year from 1888 to the present .
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( 1895 - 1966) on stage from the age of three, joseph frank keaton was nicknamed buster by houdini, he was the youngest, most cinematically inventive and endearing of hollywood’s three greatest silent comics (the others being chaplin and lloyd), and the only one to experience post - stardom obscurity, though, fortunately, his films were discovered and his reputation restored in the 1960s. the stone - faced buster was the determined, dedicated everyman, a sisyphus who sometimes manages to get his stone over the hill. his finest films –
trippy indie madeline' s madeline is the movie that lakeith stanfield and boots riley from sorry to bother you want to see the most .
two johns, a confederate and an union soldier, leave their family to go to the front. after a skirmish they end up separated from their respective sides, the union soldier shoots the confederate, but he has to escape and look for refuge in the house of his enemy .
two johns, a confederate and an union soldier, leave their families to go to the front. after a skirmish they end up separated from their respective sides, the union soldier shoots the confederate, but he has to escape and look for refuge in the house of his enemy .
a man is reunited with his childhood friend and her husband, who believe he knows the truth about the death of her rich aunt years earlier .
[ … ] turns out that not just d. w. griffith was making movies about the civil war during the early teens. the kalem company produced a series of them between 1911 and 1915, which [ … ]
minnie harding, a western maiden, is preparing for a hard washing day. sam, the negro helper, is assisting her with the wash, carrying water and filling the tub. while he is making his third trip to the well, a cowboy rides up to the cottage and asks minnie for a drink. she goes to get it and the cowboy, taking advantage of her hospitality, makes love to her. minnie repulses him and the cowboy becomes insulting. when sam returns he finds minnie struggling in the arms of the cowboy, but being a coward himself, he runs out to the road to see if other help cannot be secured. ross white, another cowboy, is cantering by when sam sees him and tells him that minnie has been insulted by a strange cowboy. white is a good friend of minnie' s and, hurriedly dismounting, runs to the house. white orders the cowboy away and the latter, menacing white with future revenge, sneaks away. the scene changes to the front of a little western saloon and gambling house. white rides up, dismounts and enters... .
two johns, a confederate and an union soldier, leave their family to go to the front. after a skirmish they end up separated from their respective sides, the union soldier shoots the... see full summary »
no, this is not a movie about a man on the run seeking a one - armed assassin. instead, it is another of d. w. griffith ’s pre - “ birth of a nation ” explorations of the civil war. this time, we start with not one, but two tearful farewells, as a confederate (edward dillon, also in “ what shall we do with our old ” and “ in the border states ”) and a union soldier (edwin august, who appears in “ the house with closed shutters ” and “ the eternal mother ”) depart for the front in one of many examples of parallelism the movie provides. in a typical coincidence, they both get separated from their units and the yankee kills the reb, only to find himself on the run when his fallen foe’s enemies find the body. stretching that coincidence even further, now the survivor seeks shelter in his enemy’s home from his victim’s mother (kate bruce, also seen in “ the red man’s view ” and “ the unchanging sea ”)! she nearly turns him in, but “thinks of another mother, awaiting her son’s return and does the decent thing. dorothy west (who starred in last night’s “the house with closed shutters”) is the fiancé who loses her beau, and her while exuberance worked on the battlefield, it seems out of place in a bereaved lover .
( 1895 - 1926) the son of a military vet, valentino drifted from italy to hollywood, working as a dancer and gigolo. after specialising in oily villains, he found overnight stardom as the argentinian hero of the first world war epic
another d. w. griffith short dealing with the civil war. good story and poignant. i' m finding it interesting with the silent films how the use of title cards can be too spare or too frequent. it must have been difficult to determine how to tell a story visually and use the right amount of cards to relate the action / dialogue and not be annoying by using too many .
minnie harding, a western maiden, is preparing for a hard washing day. sam, the negro helper, is assisting her with the wash, carrying water and filling the tub. while he is making his... see full summary »
( 1883 - 1925) this french comedian turned to the cinema in 1905, creating the first widely popular comic character “max”, an aristocratic, skirt - chasing boulevardier. he was much admired by chaplin, who gave him a photograph signed: “to max, the professor, from his disciple charles chaplin. ” seriously wounded in the great war, he suffered from depression and experienced failure in the us. but in the early 20s and with chaplin’s help, he made two classics in hollywood ,
( both 1929), reflecting the corrupt weimar republic. her dark bobbed hair, the perfect complexion, the infinitely expressive face and graceful movement made her a much - imitated fashion icon. back in america, she became a recluse and wrote a splendid memoir
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d. w. griffith throws an exciting wrench in this otherwise conventional civil war melodrama when a proud daughter of the confederacy takes her coward brother' s place on the battlefield .
here' s by the faith of a child (vitagraph) looks like maurice costello, i haven' t watched the whole thing. there are probably a lot in the eye collection online but i haven' t figured out a good way to find them. greta
d. w. griffith' s cinematic debut was already laced with dramatic irony, dynamic staging and deft parallel editing, ingeniously coaxing maximum drama out of the sight of the barrel .
navigation is clumsy and awkward; older posts get buried more or less irretrievably, at least as far as the average reader is concerned. the more content you generate, the worse it gets, you' ve got some hidden gems on your site, but i really had to go digging for them !
thanks. i noticed that that most of the films you posted had either norma talmadge or clara kimball in them. i' m still impressed by how quickly you found the films missing from my list !
john macdonagh' s script was originally on an orange / green theme, and set in ireland where unionists and nationalists were at war, rather than the american civil war theme to which it was adapted. the plot involves two soldiers, one confederate and one union, who leave their families to go to war. after a skirmish they end up separated from their own sides; the union soldier shoots the confederate. escaping from pursuing confederates, he looks for refuge in the house of his enemy' s family .
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a poor girl is secretly in love with a wealthy young planter. during the civil war she helps him escape capture by union soldiers. after the war, with his fortune gone, she confesses that she loves him .
the painted lady (1912) - blanche sweet - d. w. griffith | g. w. bitzer
during the civil war, a father living in a border state leaves to join the union army. after he leaves, confederate troops forage on his property, where a soldier encounters one of his... see full summary »
a confederate officer is called off to war. he leaves his wife and daughter in the care of george, his faithful negro servant. after the officer is killed in an exciting battle sequence, ... see full summary »
cast: kate bruce [ the confederate mother ], edward dillon [ john, her son and a confederate soldier ], clara t. bracey [ the union mother; and woman among the confederate wellwishers ], edwin august [ john, her son and a union soldier ], dorothy west [ the confederate son’s finacée ], lucy cotton [ the union son’s fiancée ], w. chrystie miller [ top - hatted old man among confederate wellwishers ], lily cahill [ among the confederate wellwishers ], dell henderson [ among the confederate wellwishers; and a union soldier ], jeanie macpherson [ among the confederate wellwishers ], claire mcdowell [ among the confederate wellwishers ], guy hedlund [ a union soldier; and a confederate soldier ], alfred paget [ a union soldier ], charles h. west [ a union soldier; and a confederate soldier ], frank evans [ a confederate soldier ], francis j. grandon [ a confederate soldier ], j. jiquel lanoe [ a confederate soldier ], w. c. robinson [ a confederate soldier ]
union soldiers march off to battle amid cheering crowds. after the battle turns against the union army, one soldier runs away, hiding in his girlfriend' s house. ashamed of his cowardice, he... see full summary »
during the civil war a young soldier loses his nerve in battle and runs away to his home to hide; his sister puts on his uniform, takes her brother' s place in the battle, and is killed... . see full summary »
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the differences and pros and cons of blogs vs sites are a big subject and you' d be better off doing a search. there are some great sites (and blogs !) which go into some detail. personally, i' m not a fan of the blog format: i think it was already dated when it appeared in the 1990s and it seems like more of an anachronism with each passing year .
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( 1883 - 1939) the handsome son of a jewish lawyer, fairbanks achieved success as the ideal, all - american boy on broadway. on screen, he first played athletic, devil - may - care types, then switched to being a swashbuckling hero in tongue - in - cheek adventure yarns such as
a young woman' s peaceful existence is shattered when she is abducted by the crew of a boat of smugglers, who then also turn against their captain .
i don' t know of an easy way to go about it - - the ones i posted were just films for people i had been researching. greta
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a union soldier panics during his first fight and flees to his girlfriend' s house. she bullies him back into harm' s way as the balance of war begins to shift .
thanks brent! yes, i' ve noticed there are films not listed on imdb, etc. in my index their titles are in b & w because i had no reference site to link to. i also realize that the task i' ve set for myself would take more than one lifetime to complete on my own but it keeps me out of trouble. it may be possible to at least list nearly all films from the silent era that are available for home viewing but even that would need to be constantly updated due to new discoveries and releases. btw, i just discovered this urltoken which may prove very helpful. thank you for the compliment on my reviews. what would the advantage be to setting up a proper site over blogging? best regards, dan
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( 1923), he plays an accident - prone small - town boy in new york. its climax sees lloyd ascending a skyscraper kong - style, one of the scariest, funniest sequences ever made
. if you intended generating masses of future content that you intend to be navigable, i sincerely doubt that' s the case. there' s a reason why wikipedia and imdb are not blogs! good luck .
his trust, subtitled
the faithful devotion and self - sacrifice of an old negro servant ,
is something of a race - relations precursor to d. w. griffith' s better - known birth of a nation .
( 1889 - 1977) following a dickensian working - class childhood in london, chaplin became a music hall star before finding overnight success in 1914 as an inventive director - star in hollywood. his tramp persona – bowler hat, baggy trousers, outsize boots, moustache, funny walk – made him the most famous man who ever lived, and one of the richest. after a decade making shorts, he produced feature films in his own studio, most famously
( 1893 - 1971) son of a californian pool hall manager, lloyd entered films as a teenager at the fun factories run by hal roach and mack sennett, and in 1917 invented a screen persona that lasted him for life – that of a sympathetic, slightly naïf middle - class go - getter wearing a suit, tie, boater and horn - rimmed glasses. he owned what he produced and became rich. in his best, most famous movie, the magnificent
as for your task at hand, though i wish it were otherwise, you will simply get overwhelmed and give up, as you begin to realise the impossibility of it. so far i' ve a dozen or so articles that just list
continuing where his trust (1911) leaves off, george, a slave, takes care of his deceased master' s daughter after her mother' s death. he sacrifices his own meager savings to give the girl a... see full summary »
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thanks bruce. i listed the films in print in case someone knew where i could find any of them on dvd or streaming online. i just keep a record of them to check once in a while to see if any have made their way to dvd .
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the fugitive is a 1910 american drama film directed by d. w. griffith . prints of the film survive at the film archive of the library of congress and at george eastman house . the script was by john macdonagh , who would later fight in the easter rising under the command of his brother , thomas macdonagh , one of the seven signatories of the proclamation of the irish republic , who would be executed by the british along with 15 other leaders after the rising . john macdonagh 's script was originally on an orange/green theme , and set in ireland where unionists and nationalists were at war , rather than the american civil war theme to which it was adapted . the plot involves two soldiers , one confederate and one union , who leave their families to go to war . after a skirmish they end up separated from their own sides ; the union soldier shoots the confederate . escaping from pursuing confederates , he looks for refuge in the house of his enemy 's family . 
the fugitive is a 1910 american drama film directed by d. w. griffith. prints of the film survive at the film archive of the library of congress and at george eastman house. the script was by john macdonagh, who would later fight in the easter rising under the command of his brother, thomas macdonagh, one of the seven signatories of the proclamation of the irish republic, who would be executed by the british along with 15 other leaders after the rising. john macdonagh's script was originally on an orange/green theme, and set in ireland where unionists and nationalists were at war, rather than the american civil war theme to which it was adapted. the plot involves two soldiers, one confederate and one union, who leave their families to go to war. after a skirmish they end up separated from their own sides; the union soldier shoots the confederate. escaping from pursuing confederates, he looks for refuge in the house of his enemy's family.
the fugitive is a 1910 american drama film directed by d. w. griffith. prints of the film survive at the film archive of the library of congress and at george eastman house. the script was by john macdonagh, who would later fight in the easter rising under the command of his brother, thomas macdonagh, one of the seven signatories of the proclamation of the irish republic, who would be executed by the british along with 15 other leaders after the rising. john macdonagh's script was originally on an orange/green theme, and set in ireland where unionists and nationalists were at war, rather than the american civil war theme to which it was adapted. the plot involves two soldiers, one confederate and one union, who leave their families to go to war. after a skirmish they end up separated from their own sides; the union soldier shoots the confederate. escaping from pursuing confederates, he looks for refuge in the house of his enemy's family.