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Dublin Core
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Title
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Early Cinema Titles, 1908-21
Subject
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American early cinema
Description
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This is a filmographic dataset of American film titles from the period 1908-21. It was originally compiled by Einar Lauritzen and Gunnar Lundquist in the 1970s, then modified by Paul Spehr and Susan Dalton in the 1990s.
Creator
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Einar Lauritzen, Gunnar Lundquist, Paul Spehr, Susan Dalton
Source
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The American Film-Index
Publisher
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Derek Long, UW-Madison Department of Communication Arts
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1908-21
Language
A language of the resource
English
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Derek Long
Filmographic Record
A filmographic record. Includes information about film titles, personnel, length, companies, etc.
ID
Unique record ID
7455
Company
The producing or distributing company. Additional company associations, if known, are listed as named entities. Moving forward, treat this field as the PRODUCING company of a title, rather than its distributor.
Ebony Film
Year of Release
Year associated w/title (see DTSC)
1920
Month of Release
Month associated w/title (see DTSC)
2
Day of Release
Day of month associated w/title (see DTSC)
14
DTSC
Date source as noted in L&L and original Spehr/Dalton dataset.
Key (see AMERICAN FILM-INDEX, vol. 1, page x):
r - verified release date
m - weekly issue of MOVING PICTURE WORLD where the story of the film is given.
a - weekly issue of MPW where film is advertised
c - only mentioned in the Library of Congress' copyright catalogues, 1894-1912 and 1912-1939
t - only mentioned in the edited text of MPW
p - only mentioned in Motion Pictures from the Library of Congress Paper Print Collection, 1894-1912, by Kemp R. Niver
u - uncertain
m
Reels
Number of Reels
5
Lauritzen Volume
Volume of THE AMERICAN FILM-INDEX (1976) in which the original filmographic listing is contained.
2
Lauritzen Page
Page number on which the original filmographic listing can be found.
112
Named Entity
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Ebony Film (company)
MacDonald, Jack (director)
MacDonald, Jack (scenarist)
MacCullough, Jack (scenarist)
David, Charles (camera operator)
France, Herman (cast member)
Burt, Willard (cast member)
Foreman, Grant (cast member)
Yach, Elizabeth (cast member)
Cross, H. A. (cast member)
Stevenson, Josephine (cast member)
O'Brien, Helen (cast member)
Walton, Olive (cast member)
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Do the Dead Talk?
112
1920 (release year)
Burt, Willard (cast member)
Cross, H. A. (cast member)
David, Charles (camera operator)
Ebony Film
Ebony Film (company)
Foreman, Grant (cast member)
France, Herman (cast member)
MacCullough, Jack (scenarist)
MacDonald, Jack (director)
MacDonald, Jack (scenarist)
O'Brien, Helen (cast member)
Stevenson, Josephine (cast member)
Walton, Olive (cast member)
Yach, Elizabeth (cast member)