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An Unseen enemy

Title
An Unseen enemy [motion picture] / Biograph.
Publication
New York : Museum of Modern Art, 1912.

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Additional Authors
  • Griffith, D. W. (David Wark), 1875-1948.
  • Biograph Company.
Description
1 film reel (15 min.) : si. b&w.; 16 mm.
Summary
A drunken servant and her accomplice rob a safe belonging to two orphaned girls. The victims are held at gunpoint while their brother races to the rescue. Editing is intense in this Biograph film. Some eighty shots speed between Lillian Gish's first awareness of danger and her final rescue. However, before the action begins, Griffith and cameraman, Billy Bitzer create an arresting high-angle shot of Robert Harron and Dorothy, as the young lovers, in a field of corn.
Subject
  • Melodrama
  • Silent films
Note
  • Based on a play by Edward Acker.
Credits (note)
  • Director, D.W. Griffith; screenplay, Frank Woods; photography, Billy Bitzer.
Performer (note)
  • Walter C. Miller, Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, Elmer Booth, Grace Henderson, Robert Harron, Harry Carey, Henry B. Walthall, Wallace Reid.
Title
An Unseen enemy [motion picture] / Biograph.
Imprint
New York : Museum of Modern Art, 1912.
Credits
Director, D.W. Griffith; screenplay, Frank Woods; photography, Billy Bitzer.
Cast
Walter C. Miller, Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, Elmer Booth, Grace Henderson, Robert Harron, Harry Carey, Henry B. Walthall, Wallace Reid.
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Added Author
Griffith, D. W. (David Wark), 1875-1948.
Biograph Company.
Branch Call Number
M16 A-396 U
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