Advertisement in The Moving Picture World Date: June 1916.
His Brother’s Wife (USA,1916). IMDB link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0157756/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2
Ethel Clayton (November 8, 1882 – June 6, 1966) was an American actress of the silent film era. Wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethel_Clayton
Advertisement in The Moving Picture World for the film The World’s Great Snare (1916).
Date: July 1916.
The World’s Great Snare (USA,1916) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0007591/
Advertisement in Moving Picture World for the American film The Woman Beneath (1917).
Date: October 1917.
The Woman Beneath (USA,1917) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0184031/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
The Amazons was a 1917 American silent comedy film directed by Joseph Kaufman and starring Marguerite Clark, Elsie Lawson, and Helen Greene. This is a newspaper advertisement.
Date: 11 August 1917
The Amazons (USA,1917) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0007631/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2
In a scene still for the 1916 silent drama The Corner, the millionaire David Waltham (played by George Fawcett, holding a cigar and scowling) stands in a group of businessmen in an office.
George Fawcett (August 25, 1860 – June 6, 1939) was an American stage and film actor of the silent era. Wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Fawcett
The Corner (USA, 1916). IMDB link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0157486/?ref_=fn_al_tt_3
Peter Elfelt, undated picture.
Peter Elfelt (1 January 1866 – 18 February 1931) was a Danish photographer and film director known as the first movie pioneer in Denmark when he began making documentary films in 1897.
Wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Elfelt
Gestoorde hengelaar (English: Disturbed Angler) was the first Dutch fictional film, made by M.H. Laddé in 1896 and was produced by the studio Eerst Nederlandsch Atelier tot het vervaardigen van Films voor de Bioscoop en Cinematograaf van M.H. Laddé en J.W. Merkelbach.
Wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestoorde_hengelaar
Dutch film director Maurits Binger. Undated Picture.
Maurits Binger (5 April 1868 – 9 April 1923) was a Dutch film director, producer and screenwriter of the silent era. He directed 39 films between 1913 and 1922 and is considered one of the pioneers of fictional films in the Netherlands.
Wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurits_Binger
M.H. Laddé – undated picture
M.H. (Machiel Hendricus) Laddé (5 November 1866 – 18 February 1932) was a Dutch photographer and film director. He was the director of the first Dutch fictional film, the 1896 comedy Gestoorde hengelaar (English: Disturbed Angler).
Wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.H._Ladd%C3%A9
The Misadventure of a French Gentleman Without Pants at the Zandvoort Beach (Dutch: De mésaventure van een Fransch heertje zonder pantalon aan het strand te Zandvoort) is a 1905 early Dutch silent film directed by Willy Mullens, and produced by Alberts Frères. A six-minute short comedy film (really a slapstick), it is one of the oldest surviving Dutch fictional films. Wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Misadventure_of_a_French_Gentleman_Without_Pants_at_the_Zandvoort_Beach
The Misadventure of a French Gentleman Without Pants at the Zandvoort Beach (Netherlands, 1905). IMDB link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1112865/
Advertisement in Moving Picture World.
Date: February 1917.
Flora Finch (17 June 1867 – 4 January 1940) was an English-born vaudevillian, stage and film actress who starred in over 300 silent films, including over 200 for the Vitagraph Studios film company. Wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flora_Finch
Dorothy Davenport (left) in The Best Man Wins (USA,1911).
The World Photographic Publishing Company, Nestor Studios – The Moving Picture World, Volume 10, Number 13 (page 1036).
The Best Man Wins (USA,1911). IMDB link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0001502/
Promotional still from the 1911 film, The Best Man Wins From the weekly advertisement for Nestor in The Moving Picture World A MERRY XMAS AND A MERRY FILM Monday, December 25th, 1911 “THE BEST MAN WINS” A tender love romance; Dan Cupid’s victory; a jolly barn dance; an exciting ploughing bee, and the delightful charm of life on the farm are exquisitely shown in The Best Man Wins. You’ll win if you get it! DAVID HORSLEY, BAYONNE, N. J. SALES CO. SOLE DISTRIBUTORS Description on page 1079— “The Best Man Wins” is a very clever comedy amid rural surroundings in which a plowing contest is pulled off to decide who shall gain the favor of the farmer’s daughter. There is considerable competition between the farmers’ sons of the vicinity, but the real contest comes off between the young man the girl’s father wants her to marry and a young man from the East who has made quite an impression upon the girl and is anxious to marry her. By some strange good fortune the young man from the East wins the contest and, while the dance is at its height, slips away with her and gets her promise to marry him. It is not to be easy sailing, though, for the jealous lover sees them slip away and, finding the girl’s father who has no use for the Eastern boy, makes an attempt to stop the proceedings. The old man finds the young folks and proceeds to read the riot act to the young man. At this point the young man from the East plays his trump card: he hands the old farmer his credentials showing that he is a representative of the Agricultural Department at Washington, D. C. This wins the old man’s consent to the arrangements made by the young folks and everybody is happy but the disappointed lover. Harold Lockwood plays the part of the Eastern boy with dignity and spirit.
Silent Beauties 