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Thanks for sharing, Norma! I had never seen that one. I think that main elf was Mae Questel who also voiced Betty Boop.

This is a Western short that was produced by Kalem. It has lots of action, but I had to watch this with Dutch inter-titles. Gene Gauntier has very little screen time as the girl whose horse is stolen by thief that happens to be an indian. The indian chief’s daughter, Ivy, is a very eligible bachelor...

A Lad from Old Ireland boasts to be the first film made on two continents – Ireland and America. The interest stops there, though, I am sorry to say. The copy I was able to see had German inter-titles, and they went by so fast that I couldn’t even pause the video to look them up on Google Translate....

I’m not a fan of civil war stories usually, so I went in not expecting much. Gene Gauntier played a girl spy in several shorts for Kalem, so by the time that The Girl Spy Before Vicksburg was released, the audience already knew about this character. The only thing I found interesting in this story w...

This is another D.W. Griffith Biograph short. This 13 minute short very much surprised me. I didn’t know the story of Ten Nights in a Barroom, on which this story is loosely based, so I was impressed by the story. I was especially impressed with the little girl, Gladys Egan’s acting. A working man w...

I watched this nice D.W. Griffith film because Gene Gauntier was sited to be in it. She is billed on IMDB as ‘A Partygoer’. There were a few partygoers, and because of the cinematography style and the fact that this 10 minute short is over 100 years old, it is hard to tell which one she is. Nonethel...

I watched this 13 minute short, because I thought Gene Gauntier was in it. I was wrong, and there seems to be some confusion as to who this woman is who plays Evelyn Nesbit in this documentary. Most sources site Evelyn Nesbit as playing herself in this one-- she was married to the millionaire Harry ...

Skyscrapers, aka Skyscrapers of New York - 1906 This little short, just 10 minutes in length, is just OK. The most interesting part in it for me is seeing the old business signs on the buildings in the background. There is some nice footage of the skyscrapers, and one gets a good idea of how dangero...

I think this is a really cool picture of Francis X. Bushman. This is from Motion Picture Story, 1912.

She was so lovely!