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Film Director Cast Notes Ref 1910: Il Trovatore: Louis J. Gasnier, Ugo Falena: Francesca Bertini, Gemma Farina, Alberto Vestri: An adaptation, by Film d'Arte Italiana, of the Gutiérrez play, with a special music score adapted from Verdi [1] [2] Jean and the Calico Doll: Laurence Trimble: Jean: Film debut of Helen Hayes [3] [4] 1911: Back to ...
Silent films became less vaudevillian in the mid-1910s, as the differences between stage and screen became apparent. Due to the work of directors such as D. W. Griffith , cinematography became less stage-like, and the development of the close up allowed for understated and realistic acting.
List of lost films; List of lost silent films (1910–1914) List of lost silent films (1915–1919) List of lost silent films (1920–1924) List of lost silent films (1925–1929) List of incomplete or partially lost films; List of lost or unfinished animated films; List of rediscovered films; List of rediscovered film footage
A Christmas Carol is a 1910 silent drama film directed by J. Searle Dawley and produced at Edison Studios in The Bronx in New York City. After the 1901 British release Scrooge, or, Marley's Ghost, this American version of Charles Dickens' 1843 novella is the second oldest surviving screen adaptation of the famous literary work.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, also known as The Wizard of Oz, [1] is a 1910 American silent fantasy film and the earliest surviving film version of L. Frank Baum's 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The film was made by the Selig Polyscope Company without Baum's direct input.
Many films of the silent era have been lost. [1] The Library of Congress estimates 75% of all silent films are lost forever. About 10,919 American silent films were produced, but only 2,749 of them still exist in some complete form, either as an original American 35mm version, a foreign release, or as a lower-quality copy.
The Mountain Eagle was the second film to be directed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1926; the silent melodrama has been described by the British Film Institute as their "most wanted" lost film. [9] London After Midnight , starring Lon Chaney and directed by Tod Browning in 1927, was a silent-era mystery-thriller pseudo-vampire film that is now ...
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is a 10-minute black-and-white silent film made in the United States in 1910, [1] and is based on Lewis Carroll's 1865 book of the same name. Produced by the Edison Manufacturing Company and directed by Edwin S. Porter, the film starred Gladys Hulette as Alice.