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Rare Gems on DVD

Our users have spoken, and we have listened. You want to see rare and hard to find films, and we have created for you the Silent Gems Collection, available on eBay. This DVD collection includes rare and for the first time available films with our stars, as well as other silent masterpieces. These are high quality films that are hard to find anywhere else. Please click on this link to see the collection: Silent Gems Collection

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You don't have to leave our website in order to obtain the films from our Silent Gems Collection. These gems are now available to our users as a reward for donation. For details click here.

 Out Yonder 1919The Woman God Forgot 1917That Model from Paris 1926For Better for Worse 1919Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall 1924

 

OUR DOCUMENTARY

    We are proud to present to all silent film lovers our multiple award-winning documentary! In March 2015 it won the distinction "Award of Merit" at the San Francisco Film Awards. In May it won the Silver Award at the 2015 International Independent Film Awards. In September 2015 it won the Award of Recognition at the Accolade Global Film Competition. Of equal merit is the inclusion of the documentary in the Official Selection of the San Jose International Short Film Festival in October 2015. In December the documentary won the extremely prestigious Diamond Award at the 2015 California Film Awards. The amazing run of recognition for our documentary continued in 2016. In February it was included in the Official Selection of the Buffalo Niagara International Film Festival.

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"The Jazz Band Leader" (1913) - with film

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   Helen Holmes



Directed by                Mack Sennett
Produced by              Keystone Film Company
Starring                     Ford Sterling, Mabel Normand, Alice Davenport, Helen Holmes
Cinematography       unknown
Distributed by           Mutual Film Corporation
Release date               May 1, 1913
Running time             12 min.
Country                      United States
Language                    Silent film, English intertitles



"The Jazz Band Leader", also known as "The Ragtime Band", is a short comedy directed by Mack Sennett.  The film is included in our program to illustrate the contributions of our star Helen Holmes.

This is one of the first roles of Helen Holmes, in which she appears as a village beauty.  She became the audacious star of "The Hazards of Helen" a year and a half later, acting as the heroine of numerous railroad adventures.

 

 

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   Mabel Normand and Ford Sterling