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Featured film: Frankenstein (1910)
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Silent-era classics for Halloween, Christmas and Easter, in the public domain in the United States.
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191012 minShort filmSilent film
Frankenstein
Edison’s one-reel version of Mary Shelley’s novel, and the earliest known film of the story. A young student discovers the secret of life and brings a creature into being in a smoking vat of chemicals, then goes home, shaken, to marry his sweetheart. The creature follows him there, and the ending turns on a memorable trick with a mirror.
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190311 minShort filmSilent film
The Great Train Robbery
Outlaws tie up a railroad telegraph operator, board a train at a water tower and rob its express car and passengers before escaping on horseback. Once the operator is freed, a posse rides after them to a shootout in the woods. Edwin S. Porter’s western for Edison includes a famous shot of an outlaw firing straight at the audience.
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190915 minShort filmSilent film
A Trap for Santa Claus
D. W. Griffith directed this Biograph Christmas drama. Ashamed that he cannot support them, a father walks out on his wife and children. Later, after the family’s luck has turned, the children set a trap to catch Santa Claus on Christmas Eve, and it catches someone they never expected.
Watch now: A Trap for Santa Claus (1909)
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