movies-1900s.json

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  {
    "title": "After Dark in Central Park",
    "year": 1900,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": [],
    "href": null
  },
  {
    "title": "Boarding School Girls' Pajama Parade",
    "year": 1900,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": [],
    "href": null
  },
  {
    "title": "Buffalo Bill's Wild West Parad",
    "year": 1900,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": [],
    "href": null
  },
  {
    "title": "Caught",
    "year": 1900,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": [],
    "href": null
  },
  {
    "title": "Clowns Spinning Hats",
    "year": 1900,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": [
      "Silent"
    ],
    "href": "Clowns_Spinning_Hats",
    "extract": "Clowns Spinning Hats is a black-and-white silent film featuring clowns throwing hats back and forth to each other. It was written and produced by Lubin Films and released April 7, 1900."
  },
  {
    "title": "Capture of Boer Battery by British",
    "year": 1900,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": [
      "Short",
      "Documentary",
      "Silent"
    ],
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    "extract": "Capture of Boer Battery by British is a black-and-white silent short docu-fiction film produced by James H. White for Edison Manufacturing Company in 1900. It is one minute in length and depicts the resistance of the Gordon Highlanders to the oncoming fire of the Boer's advance during the Boer War. It was filmed in West Orange, New Jersey USA and released April 14, 1900.",
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  {
    "title": "The Enchanted Drawing",
    "year": 1900,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": [
      "Silent"
    ],
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    "extract": "The Enchanted Drawing is a 1900 silent film directed by J. Stuart Blackton. It is best known for containing the first animated sequences recorded on standard picture film, which has led Blackton to be considered the father of American animation.",
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  {
    "title": "Feeding Sea Lions",
    "year": 1900,
    "cast": [
      "Paul Boyton"
    ],
    "genres": [
      "Short",
      "Silent"
    ],
    "href": "Feeding_Sea_Lions",
    "extract": "Feeding Sea Lions is short silent film featuring Paul Boyton feeding sea lions at his Sea Lion Park at Coney Island. Boyton is shown feeding the trained sea lions, twelve in number. The sea lions follow Boyton up the steps of the pool and then follow him back into the water. One of them steals food out of the basket. The film was made by Lubin Studios on March 10, 1900."
  },
  {
    "title": "How to Make a Fat Wife Out of Two Lean Ones",
    "year": 1900,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": [
      "Comedy"
    ],
    "href": null
  },
  {
    "title": "New Life Rescue",
    "year": 1900,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": [],
    "href": null
  },
  {
    "title": "New Morning Bath",
    "year": 1900,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": [],
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  },
  {
    "title": "Searching Ruins on Broadway, Galveston, for Dead Bodies",
    "year": 1900,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": [
      "Silent"
    ],
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    "extract": "Searching Ruins on Broadway, Galveston, for Dead Bodies is a 1900 black-and-white silent film depicting the destruction caused by the Galveston hurricane on September 8, 1900. The film was produced by Edison Studios. It depicts laborers clearing debris searching for dead bodies. A body was found during the search.",
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  },
  {
    "title": "Sherlock Holmes Baffled",
    "year": 1900,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": [
      "Short",
      "Silent"
    ],
    "href": "Sherlock_Holmes_Baffled",
    "extract": "Sherlock Holmes Baffled is an American short silent film created in 1900 with cinematography by Arthur Marvin. It is the earliest known film to feature Arthur Conan Doyle's detective character Sherlock Holmes, albeit in a form unlike that of later screen incarnations. In the film, a thief who can appear and disappear at will steals a sack of items from Sherlock Holmes. At each point, Holmes's attempts to thwart the intruder end in failure.",
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  {
    "title": "The Tribulations of an Amateur Photographer",
    "year": 1900,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": [],
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  },
  {
    "title": "Trouble in Hogan's Alley",
    "year": 1900,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": [
      "Comedy"
    ],
    "href": null
  },
  {
    "title": "Two Old Sparks",
    "year": 1900,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": [
      "Short"
    ],
    "href": null
  },
  {
    "title": "The Wonder, Ching Ling Foo",
    "year": 1900,
    "cast": [
      "Ching Ling Foo"
    ],
    "genres": [
      "Short"
    ],
    "href": null
  },
  {
    "title": "Watermelon Contest",
    "year": 1900,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": [
      "Short"
    ],
    "href": null
  },
  {
    "title": "Acrobats in Cairo",
    "year": 1901,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": []
  },
  {
    "title": "An Affair of Honor",
    "year": 1901,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": [
      "Silent"
    ],
    "href": "An_Affair_of_Honor",
    "extract": "Affair of Honor is a silent film that was inspired by a famous painting. It was made 18 May 1901 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by Lubin Studios."
  },
  {
    "title": "Another Job for the Undertaker",
    "year": 1901,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": [
      "Silent"
    ],
    "href": "Another_Job_for_the_Undertaker",
    "extract": "Another Job for the Undertaker is a 1901 silent comic trick film made at Edison's recently opened studio at 41 East 21st Street in Manhattan. It was photographed by Edwin S. Porter and co-directed by Porter and George S. Fleming. The two-shot film was copyrighted on May 15, 1901 and is approximately two minutes in length. It lacks a head title, which would have been supplied by projecting a separate lantern slide before screening the film.",
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  {
    "title": "Arrival of Tongkin Train",
    "year": 1901,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": [
      "Documentary",
      "Silent"
    ],
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    "extract": "Arrival of Tongkin Train, also referred to as Arrival of Train, Tien-Tsin, is a 1901 documentary silent film showing the arrival of a train in Tianjin, China. The film was made by American Mutoscope and Biograph Company."
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  {
    "title": "The Artist's Dilemma",
    "year": 1901,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": [
      "Fantasy",
      "Silent"
    ],
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    "extract": "The Artist's Dilemma is a 1901 silent, fantasy film. It was filmed in New York City, New York, USA. It is short film running two minutes. It features an artist asleep in his studio and his dream of a clock opening and a beautiful woman coming out of it.",
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  {
    "title": "Band and Battalion of the U.S. Indian School",
    "year": 1901,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": [
      "Silent"
    ],
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    "extract": "Band and Battalion of the U.S. Indian School is a silent film documentary made on April 30, 1901 by American Mutoscope and Biograph Company made in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, USA. The cinematographer was Arthur Marvin. It depicts a parade drill by the cadet corps of the American Indian School which includes many representatives of the Native American tribes in the United States. The head of the parade was the renowned Carlisle Band of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School. In 1902 Marvin produced another documentary, Club Swinging at Carlisle Indian School for AM&B."
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  {
    "title": "Barnum and Bailey's Circus",
    "year": 1901,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": [],
    "href": "Barnum_and_Bailey%27s_Circus",
    "extract": "The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus is an American traveling circus company billed as The Greatest Show on Earth. It and its predecessor shows ran from 1871 to 2017. Known as Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey, the circus started in 1919 when the Barnum & Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth, a circus created by P. T. Barnum and James Anthony Bailey, was merged with the Ringling Bros. World's Greatest Shows. The Ringling brothers had purchased Barnum & Bailey Ltd. following Bailey's death in 1906, but ran the circuses separately until they were merged in 1919.",
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  {
    "title": "Beef Extract Room",
    "year": 1901,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": []
  },
  {
    "title": "Boxing in Barrels",
    "year": 1901,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": [
      "Silent"
    ],
    "href": "Boxing_in_Barrels",
    "extract": "Boxing in Barrels is a silent film written and released by Lubin Studios in 1901. It features a man and a clown boxing in a barrel."
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  {
    "title": "Branding Hams",
    "year": 1901,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": []
  },
  {
    "title": "Buffalo Street Parade",
    "year": 1901,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": []
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  {
    "title": "A Busy Corner at Armour's",
    "year": 1901,
    "cast": [],
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  {
    "title": "The Bund, Shanghai",
    "year": 1901,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": []
  },
  {
    "title": "Circular Panorama of the Base of the Electric Tower, Ending Looking Down the Mall",
    "year": 1901,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": []
  },
  {
    "title": "Circular Panorama of the Electric Tower and Pond",
    "year": 1901,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": []
  },
  {
    "title": "Circular Panorama of the Esplanade with the Electric Tower in the Background",
    "year": 1901,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": []
  },
  {
    "title": "Coaling a Steamer, Nagasaki Bay, Japan",
    "year": 1901,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": []
  },
  {
    "title": "Convention of Railroad Passengers",
    "year": 1901,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": []
  },
  {
    "title": "Cornell-Columbia-University of Pennsylvania Boat Race at Ithaca, N.Y., Showing Lehigh Valley Observation Train",
    "year": 1901,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": []
  },
  {
    "title": "Couchee Dance on the Midway",
    "year": 1901,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": []
  },
  {
    "title": "The Donkey Party",
    "year": 1901,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": []
  },
  {
    "title": "The Finish of Bridget McKeen",
    "year": 1901,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": []
  },
  {
    "title": "Follow the Leader",
    "year": 1901,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": []
  },
  {
    "title": "The Fraudulent Beggar",
    "year": 1901,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": []
  },
  {
    "title": "Fun at a Children's Party",
    "year": 1901,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": []
  },
  {
    "title": "A Good Joke",
    "year": 1901,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": []
  },
  {
    "title": "The Gordon Sisters Boxing",
    "year": 1901,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": [
      "Short",
      "Silent"
    ],
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    "extract": "The Gordon Sisters Boxing is an American short black-and-white silent film directed by Thomas A. Edison. It is one of the earliest female boxing movies. Edison’s film catalogue describes the film as follows: “Champion lady boxers of the world. Here we depict two female pugilists that are really clever. They are engaged in a hot and heavy one-round sparring exhibition, which is photographed against a very pleasing background, consisting of a park, with marble entrance and walk, and beautiful trees and shrubbery. The exhibition is very lively from start to finish; the blows fall thick and fast, and some very clever pugilistic generalship is exhibited.”",
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  {
    "title": "Grand Entry, Indian Congress",
    "year": 1901,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": []
  },
  {
    "title": "Happy Hooligan April-Fooled",
    "year": 1901,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": []
  },
  {
    "title": "Happy Hooligan Surprised",
    "year": 1901,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": []
  },
  {
    "title": "Harbor of Shanghai",
    "year": 1901,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": []
  },
  {
    "title": "A Hold-Up",
    "year": 1901,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": []
  },
  {
    "title": "Ice-Boat Racing at Redbank, N.J.",
    "year": 1901,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": []
  },
  {
    "title": "Indians No. 1",
    "year": 1901,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": []
  },
  {
    "title": "Jeffries and Ruhlin Sparring Contest at San Francisco, Cal., November 15, 1901",
    "year": 1901,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": []
  },
  {
    "title": "A Joke on Grandma",
    "year": 1901,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": []
  },
  {
    "title": "Kansas Saloon Smashers",
    "year": 1901,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": [
      "Comedy",
      "Short"
    ],
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    "extract": "Kansas Saloon Smashers is a 1901 comedy short film produced and distributed by Edison Studios. Directed by Edwin S. Porter, it is a satire of American activist Carrie Nation. The film portrays Nation and her followers entering and destroying a saloon. After the bartender retaliates by spraying Nation with water, policemen order them out; the identities of the actors are not known. Inspiration for the film was provided by an editorial cartoon which appeared in the New York Evening Journal.",
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  {
    "title": "Launching of the New Battleship 'Ohio' at San Francisco, Cal. When President McKinley Was There",
    "year": 1901,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": []
  },
  {
    "title": "Laura Comstock's Bag-Punching Dog",
    "year": 1901,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": []
  },
  {
    "title": "The Life of a Fireman",
    "year": 1901,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": []
  },
  {
    "title": "Love by the Light of the Moon",
    "year": 1901,
    "cast": [],
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    "href": "Love_by_the_Light_of_the_Moon",
    "extract": "Love by the Light of the Moon is a 1901 film by Edwin S. Porter, produced by the Edison Manufacturing Company. It mixes animation and live action and predates the man in the Moon theme of the 1902 French science fiction film A Trip to the Moon by Georges Méliès.",
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    "thumbnail_height": 227
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  {
    "title": "The Martyred Presidents",
    "year": 1901,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": [],
    "href": "The_Martyred_Presidents",
    "extract": "The Martyred Presidents is a 1901 American film directed by Edwin S. Porter.",
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    "thumbnail_height": 220
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  {
    "title": "Midway Dance",
    "year": 1901,
    "cast": [],
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  },
  {
    "title": "Miles Canyon Tramway",
    "year": 1901,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": []
  },
  {
    "title": "Montreal Fire Department on Runners",
    "year": 1901,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": []
  },
  {
    "title": "Mounted Police Charge",
    "year": 1901,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": []
  },
  {
    "title": "The Old Maid Having Her Picture Taken",
    "year": 1901,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": []
  },
  {
    "title": "Opening of the Pan-American Exposition Showing Vice President Roosevelt Leading the Procession",
    "year": 1901,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": []
  },
  {
    "title": "Pan-American Exposition by Night",
    "year": 1901,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": []
  },
  {
    "title": "Panorama of the Exposition, No. 1",
    "year": 1901,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": []
  },
  {
    "title": "Panorama of the Exposition, No. 2",
    "year": 1901,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": []
  },
  {
    "title": "Panoramic View of the Fleet After Yacht Race",
    "year": 1901,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": []
  },
  {
    "title": "Panoramic View of the Temple of Music and Esplanade",
    "year": 1901,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": []
  },
  {
    "title": "Panoramic View, Asheville, N.C.",
    "year": 1901,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": []
  },
  {
    "title": "Le Petit chaperon rouge",
    "year": 1901,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": []
  },
  {
    "title": "Photographing the Audience",
    "year": 1901,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": []
  },
  {
    "title": "Pie, Tramp and the Bulldog",
    "year": 1901,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": []
  },
  {
    "title": "President McKinley and Escort Going to the Capitol",
    "year": 1901,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": [
      "Documentary",
      "Short"
    ],
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    "extract": "President McKinley Inauguration Footage is the name given to two different short documentary films which were combined as one. The two titles are President McKinley Taking the Oath and President McKinley and Escort Going to the Capitol. The two show President William McKinley arriving at the United States Capitol in order to take the oath of office for President of the United States as part of his second inauguration on March 4, 1901.",
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  {
    "title": "President McKinley Taking the Oath",
    "year": 1901,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": [
      "Documentary",
      "Short"
    ],
    "href": "President_McKinley_Inauguration_Footage",
    "extract": "President McKinley Inauguration Footage is the name given to two different short documentary films which were combined as one. The two titles are President McKinley Taking the Oath and President McKinley and Escort Going to the Capitol. The two show President William McKinley arriving at the United States Capitol in order to take the oath of office for President of the United States as part of his second inauguration on March 4, 1901.",
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  {
    "title": "President McKinley's Speech at the Pan-American Exposition",
    "year": 1901,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": []
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  {
    "title": "The Queen's Funeral",
    "year": 1901,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": []
  },
  {
    "title": "Le Rêve de Noël",
    "year": 1901,
    "cast": [],
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  },
  {
    "title": "Rocking Gold in the Klondike",
    "year": 1901,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": []
  },
  {
    "title": "Ruhlin in His Training Quarters",
    "year": 1901,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": []
  },
  {
    "title": "Shad Fishing at Gloucester, N.J.",
    "year": 1901,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": []
  },
  {
    "title": "Terrible Teddy, the Grizzly King",
    "year": 1901,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": [
      "Silent"
    ],
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    "extract": "Terrible Teddy, the Grizzly King is a 1901 American silent film directed by Edwin S. Porter. Produced by the Edison Manufacturing Company, it is the earliest known political satire in American film. It features three actors, all of whom are unknown.",
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  {
    "title": "The Tramp's Dream",
    "year": 1901,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": []
  },
  {
    "title": "Tramp's Nap Interrupted",
    "year": 1901,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": []
  },
  {
    "title": "Trapeze Disrobing Act",
    "year": 1901,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": []
  },
  {
    "title": "A Trip Around the Pan-American Exposition",
    "year": 1901,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": []
  },
  {
    "title": "Turkish Dance",
    "year": 1901,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": []
  },
  {
    "title": "Twelve in a Barrel",
    "year": 1901,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": []
  },
  {
    "title": "Two Rubes at the Theatre",
    "year": 1901,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": []
  },
  {
    "title": "Upper Falls of the Yellowstone",
    "year": 1901,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": []
  },
  {
    "title": "Washing Gold on 20 Above Hunker, Klondike",
    "year": 1901,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": []
  },
  {
    "title": "Wedding Procession in Cairo",
    "year": 1901,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": []
  },
  {
    "title": "Why Mr. Nation Wants a Divorce",
    "year": 1901,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": []
  },
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    "title": "The Great Jewel Mystery",
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    "title": "The Whole Dam Family and the Dam Dog",
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    "title": "The Vanderbilt Auto Race",
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    "title": "The Automobile Thieves",
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    "title": "From Leadville to Aspen: A Hold-Up in the Rockies",
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    "extract": "Humorous Phases of Funny Faces is a 1906 short silent animated cartoon directed by James Stuart Blackton and generally regarded by film historians as the first animated film recorded on standard picture film.",
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    "extract": "Kathleen Mavourneen is a 1906 silent short film by Edwin S. Porter, produced and distributed by Edison Manufacturing Company. It is based on the song “Kathleen Mavourneen” by Annie Crawford and Frederick Williams Nichols Crouch, which inspired the play by Dion Boucicault.",
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    "extract": "A Trip Down Market Street is a 1906 phantom ride film of a cable car as it travels down Market Street in San Francisco. It is notable for capturing the city four days before the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. The film shows details of daily life in a major early 20th-century American city, including the transportation, fashions and architecture of the era. The film begins at 8th Street and continues eastward to the cable car turntable, at the Embarcadero, in front of the Ferry Building.",
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    "extract": "Deceived Slumming Party is a 1908 American comedy film directed by D. W. Griffith. Several scenes of tours being conducted in New York City. At the end of each scene it becomes obvious that the events of the tours have been set up to shock and defraud the tourists."
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      "Betty Harte"
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      "Silent"
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    "extract": "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a 1908 silent horror film starring Hobart Bosworth, and Betty Harte in her film debut. Directed by Otis Turner and produced by William N. Selig, this was the first film adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 novel Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. The screenplay was actually adapted by George F. Fish and Luella Forepaugh from their own 1897 four act stage play derived from the novel, causing a number of plot differences with the original source. Despite Stevenson's protests, this film became the model which influenced all the later film adaptations that were to come.",
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    "title": "The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays",
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    "extract": "The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays was an early attempt to bring L. Frank Baum's Oz books to the motion picture screen. It was a mixture of live actors, hand-tinted magic lantern slides, and film. Baum himself would appear as if he were giving a lecture, while he interacted with the characters. Although acclaimed throughout its tour, the show experienced budgetary problems and folded after two months of performances. It opened in Grand Rapids, Michigan on September 24, 1908. It then opened in Orchestra Hall in Chicago on October 1, toured the country and ended its run in New York City. There, it was scheduled to run through December 31, and ads for it continued to run in The New York Times until then, but it reportedly closed on December 16.",
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    "title": "The Fight for Freedom",
    "year": 1908,
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      "John G. Adolfi"
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      "Short",
      "Silent"
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    "href": "The_Fight_for_Freedom",
    "extract": "The Fight for Freedom is a 1908 American black-and-white short silent Western film which may have been directed by D. W. Griffith. Filmed in Shadyside, New Jersey in June 1908, the film was released on July 17, 1908."
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    "title": "Macbeth",
    "year": 1908,
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      "Paul Panzer"
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      "Silent"
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    "extract": "Macbeth is a silent 1908 American film directed by James Stuart Blackton based on the William Shakespeare play of the same name. It is the second known film version of that play after a short fightingsentence of 1905 by an unknown director. It was a black and white silent film that had English intertitles. It is currently unknown if any print of the film still exists."
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    "title": "Money Mad",
    "year": 1908,
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      "George Gebhardt"
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      "Short"
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    "extract": "Money Mad is a 1908 American short crime film directed by D. W. Griffith. It is based on the short story \"Just Meat\" by Jack London.",
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    "title": "The Red Man and the Child",
    "year": 1908,
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      "John Tansey"
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      "Short",
      "Silent"
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    "extract": "The Red Man and the Child is a 1908 American black-and-white short silent Western film directed by D. W. Griffith for the American Mutoscope & Biograph Company. It stars Charles Inslee and six-year old John Tansey."
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    "title": "Romeo and Juliet",
    "year": 1908,
    "cast": [
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      "Florence Lawrence"
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      "Silent"
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    "extract": "The first American film version of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet was a silent film short made in 1908 made by Vitagraph Studios. Directed by J. Stuart Blackton, it was filmed at Bethesda Terrace in Manhattan, New York.",
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    "title": "The Taming of the Shrew",
    "year": 1908,
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      "Arthur V. Johnson"
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      "Silent"
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    "extract": "The Taming of the Shrew is a 1908 silent film directed by D. W. Griffith and produced by the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company of New York City. The 17-minute short, which is based on the play of the same name by English playwright William Shakespeare, was filmed in just two days–October 1 and 7, 1908–at Biograph's studio in Manhattan and on location in nearby Coytesville, a borough of Fort Lee, New Jersey.",
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    "title": "The Tavern Keeper's Daughter",
    "year": 1908,
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      "George Gebhardt",
      "Florence Auer"
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      "Action",
      "Silent"
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    "extract": "The Tavern Keeper's Daughter is a 1908 American silent action film directed by D. W. Griffith. The film was shot in Fort Lee, New Jersey when many early film studios in America's first motion picture industry were based there at the beginning of the 20th century."
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  {
    "title": "A B C's of the U.S.A.",
    "year": 1909,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": [],
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    "title": "Adventures of a Drummer Boy",
    "year": 1909,
    "cast": [],
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    "title": "And a Little Child Shall Lead Them",
    "year": 1909,
    "cast": [
      "Marion Leonard",
      "Arthur V. Johnson"
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      "Drama",
      "Short",
      "Silent"
    ],
    "href": "And_a_Little_Child_Shall_Lead_Them",
    "extract": "And a Little Child Shall Lead Them is a 1909 American silent short drama film directed by D. W. Griffith. A print of the film exists in the film archive of the Library of Congress."
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    "title": "At the Altar",
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      "Marion Leonard"
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      "Drama",
      "Silent"
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    "extract": "At the Altar is a 1909 American silent drama film directed by D. W. Griffith. The film was shot in Fort Lee, New Jersey where early film studios in America's first motion picture industry were based at the beginning of the 20th century. A print of this film is in the film archive of the Library of Congress."
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  {
    "title": "Boots and Saddles",
    "year": 1909,
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  {
    "title": "The Brahma Diamond",
    "year": 1909,
    "cast": [
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      "Florence Lawrence"
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      "Drama",
      "Short",
      "Silent"
    ],
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    "extract": "The Brahma Diamond is a 1909 American silent short drama film directed by D. W. Griffith."
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  {
    "title": "A Brave Irish Lass",
    "year": 1909,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": [],
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  },
  {
    "title": "A Burglar's Mistake",
    "year": 1909,
    "cast": [
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      "Charles Inslee"
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      "Drama",
      "Short",
      "Silent"
    ],
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    "extract": "A Burglar's Mistake is a 1909 American silent short drama film directed by D. W. Griffith. The film was released on March 25, 1909 by Biograph Company and was met with liked viewrs. The film is presumed lost."
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    "title": "C.Q.D.; or, Saved by Wireless; a True Story of the Wreck of the Republic",
    "year": 1909,
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    "title": "The Castaways",
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    "title": "Cohen at Coney Island",
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    "title": "Cohen's Dream",
    "year": 1909,
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    "title": "A Colonial Romance",
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    "title": "The Cord of Life[1]",
    "year": 1909,
    "cast": [
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      "Marion Leonard"
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      "Short",
      "Silent"
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    "href": "The_Cord_of_Life",
    "extract": "The Cord of Life is a 1909 American silent short drama film directed by D. W. Griffith. A print of the film exists in the film archive of the Library of Congress."
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    "title": "The Cracker's Bride",
    "year": 1909,
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  },
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    "title": "The Criminal Hypnotist",
    "year": 1909,
    "cast": [
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      "Marion Leonard"
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      "Drama",
      "Short",
      "Silent"
    ],
    "href": "The_Criminal_Hypnotist",
    "extract": "The Criminal Hypnotist is a 1909 American silent short drama film directed by D. W. Griffith."
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    "title": "Cure for Bashfulness",
    "year": 1909,
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    "title": "The Curtain Pole[1]",
    "year": 1909,
    "cast": [
      "Mack Sennett"
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      "Comedy"
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    "extract": "The Curtain Pole is a 1909 American comedy film directed by D. W. Griffith. A print of the film still exists. The film was made by the American Mutoscope and 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.",
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  {
    "title": "A Daughter of the Sun",
    "year": 1909,
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    "genres": [],
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  },
  {
    "title": "The Deacon's Love Letters",
    "year": 1909,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": [],
    "href": null
  },
  {
    "title": "The Deception",
    "year": 1909,
    "cast": [],
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  {
    "title": "A Drunkard's Reformation",
    "year": 1909,
    "cast": [
      "Arthur V. Johnson"
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      "Drama"
    ],
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    "extract": "A Drunkard's Reformation is a 1909 American drama film directed by D. W. Griffith. Prints of the film survive in the film archive of the Library of Congress. The \tAmerican Mutoscope and Biograph Company advertised the feature as \"The most powerful temperance lecture ever depicted\".",
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    "title": "Edgar Allan Poe",
    "year": 1909,
    "cast": [
      "Barry O'Moore",
      "Linda Arvidson"
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      "Drama",
      "Silent"
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    "extract": "Edgar Allen Poe [sic] is a 1909 American silent drama film produced by the Biograph Company of New York and directed and co-written by D. W. Griffith. Herbert Yost stars in this short as the 19th-century American writer and poet Edgar Allan Poe, while Linda Arvidson portrays Poe's wife Virginia. When it was released in February 1909 and throughout its theatrical run, the film was consistently identified and advertised with Poe's middle name misspelled in its official title, using an \"e\" instead of the correct second \"a\". The short was also originally shipped to theaters on a \"split reel\", which was a single reel that accommodated more than one film. This 450-foot drama shared its reel with another Biograph short, the 558-foot comedy A Wreath in Time. Prints of both films survive.",
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    "title": "The Energetic Street Cleaner",
    "year": 1909,
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    "genres": [],
    "href": null
  },
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    "title": "The Fascinating Mrs. Francis",
    "year": 1909,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": [
      "Comedy",
      "Short",
      "Silent"
    ],
    "href": "The_Fascinating_Mrs._Francis",
    "extract": "The Fascinating Mrs. Francis is a 1909 American silent short comedy film directed by D. W. Griffith. The Internet Movie Database lists Mary Pickford as appearing in this short. However, Pickford did not begin with Biograph until the end of April 1909."
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  {
    "title": "A Fool's Revenge",
    "year": 1909,
    "cast": [
      "Owen Moore"
    ],
    "genres": [
      "Drama",
      "Short",
      "Silent"
    ],
    "href": "A_Fool%27s_Revenge",
    "extract": "A Fool's Revenge is a 1909 American silent short drama film directed by D. W. Griffith. It is based on the 1832 Victor Hugo play Le roi s'amuse."
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  {
    "title": "A Friend in the Enemy's Camp",
    "year": 1909,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": [],
    "href": null
  },
  {
    "title": "The Girls and Daddy[1]",
    "year": 1909,
    "cast": [
      "Florence Lawrence"
    ],
    "genres": [
      "Drama",
      "Short",
      "Silent"
    ],
    "href": "The_Girls_and_Daddy",
    "extract": "The Girls and Daddy is a 1909 American silent short drama film directed by D. W. Griffith with Griffith appearing in a small blackface role. A print of the film exists in the film archive of the Library of Congress."
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    "title": "The Golden Louis",
    "year": 1909,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": [
      "Drama",
      "War"
    ],
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    "extract": "The Golden Louis is a 1909 American drama film written by Edward Acker, directed by D. W. Griffith, and produced by the Biograph Company in New York City. Originally, this short was distributed to theaters on a \"split reel\", accompanying another Griffith-directed film, the comedy The Politician's Love Story.",
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    "title": "The Haunted Lounge",
    "year": 1909,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": [],
    "href": null
  },
  {
    "title": "The Hindoo Dagger",
    "year": 1909,
    "cast": [
      "Harry Solter"
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    "genres": [
      "Drama",
      "Mystery",
      "Short"
    ],
    "href": "The_Hindoo_Dagger",
    "extract": "The Hindoo Dagger is a 1909 American Short film and Mystery Drama directed by D. W. Griffith and the film was made by the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company."
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    "title": "His Ward's Love",
    "year": 1909,
    "cast": [
      "Arthur V. Johnson"
    ],
    "genres": [
      "Short",
      "War"
    ],
    "href": "His_Ward%27s_Love",
    "extract": "His Ward's Love is a 1909 American Short film directed by D. W. Griffith and the film was made by the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company."
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  {
    "title": "His Wife's Mother",
    "year": 1909,
    "cast": [
      "John R. Cumpson"
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      "Comedy",
      "Short",
      "Silent"
    ],
    "href": "His_Wife%27s_Mother_(1909_film)",
    "extract": "His Wife's Mother is a 1909 American silent short comedy film directed by D. W. Griffith."
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  {
    "title": "The Honor of the Slums",
    "year": 1909,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": [],
    "href": null
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  {
    "title": "The Honor of Thieves",
    "year": 1909,
    "cast": [
      "Harry Solter"
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    "genres": [
      "Drama",
      "Short",
      "Silent"
    ],
    "href": "The_Honor_of_Thieves",
    "extract": "The Honor of Thieves is a 1909 American silent short drama film directed by D. W. Griffith."
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  {
    "title": "I Did It",
    "year": 1909,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": [
      "Drama",
      "Short",
      "Silent"
    ],
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    "extract": "I Did It is a 1909 American silent short drama film directed by D. W. Griffith."
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  {
    "title": "Jessie, the Stolen Child",
    "year": 1909,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": [],
    "href": null
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  {
    "title": "Jones and His New Neighbors",
    "year": 1909,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": [
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      "Silent"
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    "extract": "Jones and His New Neighbors is a 1909 American silent comedy film written by Frank E. Woods and directed by D. W. Griffith. Produced by the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company in New York City, the short stars John R. Cumpson, Florence Lawrence, and Anita Hendrie. It is one film in a series of 1908 and 1909 Biograph pictures in which Cumpson and Lawrence performed together as the married couple Mr. and Mrs. Jones. When this comedy was released in March 1909, it was distributed to theaters on a \"split reel\", which was a single projection reel that accommodated more than one motion picture. It shared its reel with another Biograph short directed by Griffith, the dramatic \"thriller\" The Medicine Bottle.",
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    "title": "The Joneses Have Amateur Theatricals",
    "year": 1909,
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      "Silent"
    ],
    "href": "The_Joneses_Have_Amateur_Theatricals",
    "extract": "The Joneses Have Amateur Theatricals is a 1909 silent short comedy film directed by D. W. Griffith. It was released in split-reel form with The Hindoo Dagger."
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  {
    "title": "Kenilworth",
    "year": 1909,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": [],
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    "title": "King Lear",
    "year": 1909,
    "cast": [
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    "extract": "King Lear is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare.\nIt is based on the mythological Leir of Britain. King Lear, in preparation for his old age, divides his power and land between two of his daughters. He becomes destitute and insane and a proscribed crux of political machinations. The first known performance of any version of Shakespeare's play was on Saint Stephen's Day in 1606. The three extant publications from which modern editors derive their texts are the 1608 quarto (Q1) and the 1619 quarto and the 1623 First Folio. The quarto versions differ significantly from the folio version.",
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    "title": "The Life of Moses",
    "year": 1909,
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    "extract": "The Life of Moses is a 1909 American silent epic film directed by J. Stuart Blackton and starring Pat Hartigan, Julia Arthur and William J. Humphrey. A portrayal of the biblical story of Moses, it was one of a number of prestige film based on historical or religious subjects made during the era.",
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    "title": "The Life of Napoleon",
    "year": 1909,
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    "genres": [],
    "href": null
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    "title": "Love Finds a Way",
    "year": 1909,
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      "Silent"
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    "href": "Love_Finds_a_Way",
    "extract": "Love Finds a Way is a 1909 American silent short drama film directed by D. W. Griffith."
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  {
    "title": "The Love of the Pasha's Son: A Turkish Romance",
    "year": 1909,
    "cast": [],
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    "title": "The Lure of the Gown",
    "year": 1909,
    "cast": [
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    "genres": [
      "Drama",
      "Short",
      "Silent"
    ],
    "href": "The_Lure_of_the_Gown",
    "extract": "The Lure of the Gown is a 1909 American silent short drama film directed by D. W. Griffith."
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  {
    "title": "The Mad Miner",
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    "cast": [],
    "genres": [],
    "href": null
  },
  {
    "title": "The Maniac Cook",
    "year": 1909,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": [
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      "Short",
      "Silent"
    ],
    "href": "The_Maniac_Cook",
    "extract": "The Maniac Cook is a 1909 American silent short drama film directed by D. W. Griffith."
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  {
    "title": "The Medicine Bottle",
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    "cast": [],
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    "href": "The_Medicine_Bottle",
    "extract": "The Medicine Bottle is a 1909 American silent thriller film written and directed by D. W. Griffith, produced by the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company in New York City, and starring Florence Lawrence, Adele DeGarde, and Marion Leonard. At its release in March 1909, the short was distributed to theaters on a \"split reel\", which was a single projection reel that accommodated more than one film. This drama shared its reel with another Biograph short directed by Griffith, the comedy Jones and His New Neighbors.",
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  {
    "title": "Midnight Disturbance",
    "year": 1909,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": [],
    "href": null
  },
  {
    "title": "Mr. Jones Has a Card Party",
    "year": 1909,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": [
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    ],
    "href": "Mr._Jones_Has_a_Card_Party",
    "extract": "Mr. Jones Has a Card Party is a 1909 American silent short comedy film directed by D. W. Griffith. A print of the film exists.",
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    "thumbnail_height": 180
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  {
    "title": "Mrs. Jones Entertains",
    "year": 1909,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": [
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      "Short",
      "Silent"
    ],
    "href": "Mrs._Jones_Entertains",
    "extract": "Mrs. Jones Entertains is a 1909 American silent short comedy film directed by D. W. Griffith. The Internet Movie Database lists Mary Pickford as appearing in this short. However, Pickford did not begin with Biograph until the end of April 1909.",
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  {
    "title": "Napoleon and the Empress Josephine",
    "year": 1909,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": [],
    "href": null
  },
  {
    "title": "The Old Soldier's Story",
    "year": 1909,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": [],
    "href": null
  },
  {
    "title": "One Touch of Nature",
    "year": 1909,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": [
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      "Drama",
      "Silent"
    ],
    "href": "One_Touch_of_Nature_(1909_film)",
    "extract": "One Touch of Nature is a 1909 American silent short drama film directed by D. W. Griffith. It is not known whether the film currently survives, which suggests that it is a lost film."
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  {
    "title": "The Politician's Love Story",
    "year": 1909,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": [
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      "Short"
    ],
    "href": "The_Politician%27s_Love_Story",
    "extract": "The Politician's Love Story is a 1909 short drama film directed by D. W. Griffith for the Biograph Company."
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  {
    "title": "The Poor Musician",
    "year": 1909,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": [],
    "href": null
  },
  {
    "title": "The Prussian Spy",
    "year": 1909,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": [
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      "Short",
      "Silent"
    ],
    "href": "The_Prussian_Spy",
    "extract": "The Prussian Spy is a 1909 American silent short drama film directed by D. W. Griffith."
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  {
    "title": "The Road Agents",
    "year": 1909,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": [],
    "href": null
  },
  {
    "title": "The Road to the Heart",
    "year": 1909,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": [
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    ],
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    "extract": "The Road to the Heart is a 1909 American short film, a dramedy directed by D. W. Griffith and produced by the Biograph Company of New York City. Starring David Miles, Anita Hendrie and Herbert Yost, the production was filmed in two days in March 1909 at Biograph's studio in Manhattan. It was released in April that year and distributed to theaters on a \"split-reel\", which was a single film reel that included more than one motion picture. The other picture that accompanied this comedy was the Biograph comedy Trying to Get Arrested.",
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    "thumbnail_height": 227
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  {
    "title": "A Rural Elopement",
    "year": 1909,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": [
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      "Short",
      "Silent"
    ],
    "href": "A_Rural_Elopement",
    "extract": "A Rural Elopement is a 1909 American silent short drama film directed by D. W. Griffith."
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  {
    "title": "The Sacrifice",
    "year": 1909,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": [
      "Drama",
      "Short",
      "Silent"
    ],
    "href": "The_Sacrifice_(1909_film)",
    "extract": "The Sacrifice is a 1909 American silent short drama film directed by D. W. Griffith."
  },
  {
    "title": "The Salvation Army Lass",
    "year": 1909,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": [
      "Drama",
      "Short",
      "Silent"
    ],
    "href": "The_Salvation_Army_Lass",
    "extract": "The Salvation Army Lass is a 1909 American silent short drama film directed by D. W. Griffith."
  },
  {
    "title": "A Sister's Love: A Tale of the Franco-Prussian War",
    "year": 1909,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": [],
    "href": null
  },
  {
    "title": "A Sister's Love",
    "year": 1909,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": [],
    "href": null
  },
  {
    "title": "Tag Day",
    "year": 1909,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": [],
    "href": null
  },
  {
    "title": "A Tale of the West",
    "year": 1909,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": [],
    "href": null
  },
  {
    "title": "The Tenderfoot",
    "year": 1909,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": [],
    "href": null
  },
  {
    "title": "Those Awful Hats",
    "year": 1909,
    "cast": [
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    "genres": [
      "Comedy",
      "Short"
    ],
    "href": "Those_Awful_Hats",
    "extract": "Those Awful Hats is a 1909 American short comedy film directed by D.W. Griffith and starring Mack Sennett. It takes place in a small, crowded movie theatre, where the patrons are perpetually distracted by people - primarily women - wearing large, ostentatious hats that obstruct everyone else's views of the screen. Slapstick disorder ensues. The film ends with a title card reading, \"Ladies Will Please Remove Their Hats.\" A print of the film survives in the film archive of the Library of Congress.",
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  {
    "title": "Those Boys!",
    "year": 1909,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": [
      "Comedy",
      "Short",
      "Silent"
    ],
    "href": "Those_Boys!",
    "extract": "Those Boys! is a 1909 American silent short comedy film directed by D. W. Griffith."
  },
  {
    "title": "Tragic Love",
    "year": 1909,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": [
      "Drama",
      "Short",
      "Silent"
    ],
    "href": "Tragic_Love",
    "extract": "Tragic Love is a 1909 American silent short drama film directed by D. W. Griffith."
  },
  {
    "title": "Trying to Get Arrested",
    "year": 1909,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": [
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    ],
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    "extract": "Trying to Get Arrested is a 1909 American comedy short film directed by D. W. Griffith, produced by the Biograph Company of New York City, and starring John R. Cumpson. Filmed in two days in early 1909 at Palisades Park, New Jersey, it was released in April that year and distributed to theaters on a \"split reel\", which was a single film reel that included more than one motion picture. The other picture that accompanied this comedy was the Biograph \"dramedy\" The Road to the Heart.",
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    "title": "The Voice of the Violin",
    "year": 1909,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": [
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      "Short"
    ],
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    "extract": "The Voice of the Violin is a 1909 short drama film directed by D. W. Griffith. It is preserved from a paper print at the Library of Congress and a 35 mm print at the George Eastman Museum. Arthur V. Johnson is a musician, who makes a living with classes of violin. He and his student Marion Leonard like each other a lot, but she rejects him for being too poor for her. He then decides to join a communist group and fight for equality of all. Right away, he draws a lot to plant the next bomb in a rich man's house. With the plot under way, he realizes that this is the home of his love interest, and he desperately tries to prevent the bomb from exploding.",
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    "title": "The Welcome Burglar[1]",
    "year": 1909,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": [
      "Drama",
      "Short",
      "Silent"
    ],
    "href": "The_Welcome_Burglar",
    "extract": "The Welcome Burglar is a 1909 American silent short drama film directed by D. W. Griffith."
  },
  {
    "title": "Where Is My Wandering Boy Tonight?",
    "year": 1909,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": [],
    "href": null
  },
  {
    "title": "The Wooden Leg",
    "year": 1909,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": [
      "Comedy",
      "Short",
      "Silent"
    ],
    "href": "The_Wooden_Leg",
    "extract": "The Wooden Leg is a 1909 American silent short comedy film directed by D. W. Griffith."
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  {
    "title": "A Wreath in Time",
    "year": 1909,
    "cast": [],
    "genres": [
      "Comedy",
      "Silent"
    ],
    "href": "A_Wreath_in_Time",
    "extract": "A Wreath in Time is a 1909 American silent comedy film written and directed by D. W. Griffith, produced by the Biograph Company of New York City, and co-starring Mack Sennett and Florence Lawrence. At its release in February 1909, the short was distributed to theaters on a \"split reel\", which was a single reel that accommodated more than one film. A Wreath in Time shared its reel with another Biograph short also directed by Griffith, the drama Edgar Allen Poe [sic]. Original paper rolls of contact prints of both motion pictures, as well as safety-stock copies of the two films, are preserved in the Library of Congress.",
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