MBC INTERACTIVE ARCHIVE - USA: Filmmaking in Florida (Silent Period)

USA | 1890s - 1920s

USA | 1890s - 1920s

USA: Filmmaking in Florida (Silent Period)

Filmmaking in Florida (Silent Period)

STEREOVIEWS

The FLoridians

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61 Siegmund Lubin, By the Sea (The Diver), 1912.

The Players

Thomas A. Edison

George _ J. Ernest Williamson

Alice Guy Blache

Alice Hollister

Pauline Frederick

Ethel Barrymore

Rudolph Valentino

Booker T. Washington

Richard E. Norman

Laurence Criner

Richard Barthelmess

Clarine Seymour

Max Fleisher w Betty Boop

Francis X. Bushman

Lewis Milestone

Florida alligators, 1900. USpc

American Mutoscope _ Biograph, The Alligator and the Picaninny, 1900. USpc

Sidney Drew for Vitagraph, A Florida Enchantment, 1914. USad

Sigmund Lubin, The Sea Eternal, 1913. USmag

Pioneers, Series, and Serials

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94 Pathé Studios, Pearl White, Perils of Pauline, 1914. USsm

98 Alice Guy Blache directing Bessie Love for Pathe Exchange in Spring of Life (The Great Adventure), 1917. FmrCinema

The Underwater Inventors

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105 George _ J. Ernest Williamson, How Life Begins, 1917. Farticle

104 Stuart Paton, George _ J. Ernest Williamson, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, 1916. USad

103 Stuart Paton, George _ J. Ernest Williamson, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, 1916. Fad

102b Stuart Paton, George and Ernest J. Williamson, 20,000 Leaugues Under the Sea, 1916. USP

St. Augustine, panoramic photo, 1917. USphoto

Vamps and Exotics in St. Augustine

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134 Fox, Frank Powell, Theda Bara, A Fool There Was, 1915. USsm-0

143 Kalem Company, Alice Hollister, The Lotus Woman, 1916. USad

152 Maurice Tourneur, Olga Petrova, Law of the Land, 1917. USh

Fox, Bertrum Bracken, Theda Bara, Eternal Sappho, 1916. USlc

St. Augustine, Fountain of Youth, 1920. USpc

John W. Noble, Ethel Barrymore, The Call of Her People, 1917. USlc

Jacksonville, "The First Hollywood" and the Norman Studios

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162 Dyreda Art Film Corp., Searle Dawley, Four Feathers, 1915. USh

163 Oliver Hardy as _Babe_ Hardy, VIM Studios, 1916. USad

164 Emmett J. Scott, John W. Noble, The Birth of a Race, 1918. USh

Richard E. Norman, Norman Studios Logo, 1926. USpbex

Richard E. Norman, Bill Pickett, The Bull-Dogger, 1921. USpbex

Richard E. Norman Regeneration, 1923. USh

Richard E. Norman, Crimson Skull, 1922. USh

Richard E. Norman, Black Gold, 1928. USh

Richard E. Norman, The Flying Ace, 1926. US1sheet

Richard E. Norman, The Flying Ace, 1926. USpbex

Richard E. Norman, Regeneration, 1923. USlc

Richard E. Norman, The Green Eyed Monster, 1919. USh

Richard E. Norman, The Flying Ace, Retrospective Screening, Terry Concert Hall, Jacksonville, FL. 2016 USp

"Where the Pavement Ends"

Made-in-Miami Movies

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172 Field Film Company, Miami, studio under construction, 1915. State Library and Archives of Florida Collection. USphoto

172b Field Film Company, Miami, studio extras, 1916. State Library and Archives of Florida Collection. USphoto

J. Gordon Edwards, Theda Bara, A Woman There Was, 1919, on location in South Miami Beach. State Library and Archives of Florida Collection. USphoto

J. Gordon Edwards, Theda Bara, A Woman There Was, 1919, on location on South Miami Beach. USphoto

Rex Ingram, Where the Pavement Ends, 1923. USphotoplay

D. W. Griffith, Idol Dancer, 1920. USstill

D. W. Griffith, Idol Dancer, 1920. USstill

D. W. Griffith, The Idol Dancer, 1920.

D. W. Griffith, Idol Dancer, 1920. USstill

D. W. Griffith, The Love Flower, 1920. USad

D. W. Griffith, The Love Flower, 1920. USad jpg

D. W. Griffith, The Love Flower, 1920. USsm

D. W. Griffith, The White Rose, 1923. USlc

Marshall Neilan, John Barrymore, Lotus Eater, 1921. USlc

Marshall Neilan, John Barrymore, Colleen Moore, The Lotus Eater, 1923, signed by photographer D. Kesson.. USphoto

Rex Ingram, Where the Pavement Ends, 1923. State Library and Archives of Florida Collection. USphoto

Rex Ingram, Where the Pavement Ends, 1923. USphotoplay

Rex Ingram, Where the Pavement Ends, 1923. USphotoplay

Fleischer Studios

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179c Max and Dave Fleischer, Boop Oop A Doop, 1930..shdiecut

179 Max and Dave Fleischer, Betty Boop, Out of the Inkwell, 1920.USpin

178 Max and Dave Fleischer, Koko the Clown, 1920.

179f Max and Dave Fleischer, Popeye, 1920. Jmenko

179b Betty Boop, Koko the Clown, Bimbo the Dog, bisque porcelain, 1939. Jfigurine

Criminals, Gangsters, Golddiggers and Drifters

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203 A. Edward Sutherland, W. C. Fields, It_s the Old Army Game, 1926 USphoto

202 A. Edward Sutherland, W. C. Fields, Louise Brooks, It_s The Old Army Game, 1926. USstill

James Cruze, Thomas Meighan, Renee Adoree, The Mating Call, 1928. USsm

Roy Del Ruth, Jason Robards, Footloose Widows, 1926. USstill

Lewis Milestone, Thomas Meighan, The New Klondike, 1926. USphotoplay

Sidney Olcott, George Arliss, The Green Goddess, 1923. USphotoplay

Allan Dwan, The Joy Girl, 1927. USstill

Alfred Santell, Sweet Daddies, 1926. USsm

The Marx Brothers, 1929. USsticker

The Marx Brothers, The Cocoanuts, 1929. USh

Benjamin Stoloff, Lola Lane, The Girl From Havana, 1929. USsm

The Marx Brothers, The Cocoanuts, 1929. US1sheet

The Marx Brothers, The Cocoanuts, 1929. USlc