The Little Tease, Mae Marsh, 1913, complete from rare 16mm.

Directed by D.W. Griffith; cast: Mae Marsh (The Little Tease); W. Chrystie Miller (Father); Kate Bruce (Mother); Robert Harron (Jim); Henry B. Walthall (The Valley Man); Viola Barry (The Other Woman); Lionel Barrymore (in saloon, start of part 2); Edward Dillon (restaurant owner); Lillian Gish (woman in checkered bandana behind lunch counter, part 2).
In about 2010 I acquired this 16mm print from a collector. "What is it?", I asked. "It's a Biograph," he said. I assumed it would be one of the Blackhawk films, but it turned out to be possibly the only existing 16mm print of this title. At the end of the reel there were two or three feet of black film that I assumed to be leader. On projecting it, I discovered it contained the seconds of footage of the film right after the father smashed the lamp on the floor and embraced his wife. Perhaps the original owner thought the darkness of the footage was a mistake (instead of the discreet and tender moment that it is) and removed it to the end of the reel. I was able to splice it back in without losing any frames.
The print ran fine, but had a vinegar smell. Colleagues suggested the safekeeping of a major archive, Library of Congress, where the print now resides. Before sending it, I had it digitized by Anne Wells of the Chicago Film Archive and accompanied it myself for this video.
Special thanks to Anne, Steve Yates Recording, and Frank Carr.

[@Coney01]

The 1913 edition of The Griffith Project published in 2003, which totals ten volumes covering all of D.W. Griffith's films each in detail, said that the archival sources amounted to only "197 frames plus intertitles; heavy damage, soaking required." The film was 1500 feet in length or approximately 25 minutes, so this 16mm print is probably complete, with only part of the right side of the frame image missing. It is a wonderful and important discovery and I'd add, presented here by "soundandscreen" with lovely music.
In the 1913 Griffith Project they wrote: "The trade critics gave the film raves, going out of their way to comment on the extended length of the film (the Little Tease ran a reel and a half), then wishing the film were even longer. Mae Marsh came into her own, with her best notices yet: "this two-reel Biograph drama deserves to be released as a feature....Deftly drawn action, warm acting, beautiful photography, and picturesque scenery. "

[@147Brighton]

Marsh is entirely winning here, and Walthall perfectly combines charm, arrogance and a kind of casual brutality.

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me encantan estas películas antiguas.

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A telltale sign that even the interior sets were filmed on open-air stages: In the very last seconds of the film, a breeze blows the pages of the Bible, when the father is not touching it! Blink and you'll miss it.

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