Lost Silent Cinema

Rediscovering and uncovering lost silent films. All stills and media presented here are property of their respective owners.

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Excerpt from A MOTION PLAY PRIMER THAT IS ON THE SQUARE, by Harvey Peake

Motion Picture Magazine (Aug. 1915)

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Margaret Gibson (New York Motion Picture Corporation)

Motion Picture Magazine (Aug. 1915)

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SPOON WITH ANITA STEWART

Motion Picture Magazine (Aug 1915)

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Behind-the-scenes of an unidentified film featuring Milton Sills and Mabel Julienne Scott, c. 1921

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Actress Lila Lee and director Tom Forman on location at Big Bear Lake, CA, filming the presumed lost The Easy Road (1921)

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Snub Pollard (left), Marie Mosquini, and Ernest Morrison (right) in a still from the presumed lost Fellow Romans (1921)

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Anita Stewart in a still from the presumed lost The Invisible Fear (1921)

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Elsie Ferguson in a promotional portrait for the presumed lost Forever (1921)

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A duo of studio portraits promoting Elsie Ferguson in the presumed lost Footlights (1921)

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"Helen knew that she had never been a trouble to Uncle Wainwright. She wanted to thank him, more for his blessed heart of understanding than for any other thing..."

Still from the presumed lost Everything for Sale (1921), featuring May McAvoy and Edwin Stevens

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"Helen felt disinterested. She didn't seem to care whether she looked as gorgeous as Aunt Wainwright would have her or not. But she managed somehow to smile"

Still from the presumed lost Everything for Sale (1921), featuring May McAvoy (left) and Kathlyn Williams (right)

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"Helen gathered his face to her breast. It was, she thought--if she thought at all--the instinct to warm that cold whiteness to color and life again"

Still from the presumed lost Everything for Sale (1921), featuring May McAvoy and Edward Sutherland

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"Everything was to be as it should be--as befitted the future Mrs. Lee Morton. She insisted upon buying Helen an expensive dinner dress..."

Still from the presumed lost Everything for Sale (1921), featuring Kathlyn Williams (left) and May McAvoy (right)

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"Helen had been conventionally raised. She had been sent away to a fashionable boarding-school and had been glad to get home--so very glad that she had determined to accept any responsibility which came to her"

Still from the presumed lost Everything for Sale (1921), featuring Kathlyn Williams (left), May McAvoy (center), and Jane Keckley (right)

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Still from the presumed lost Everything for Sale (1921), featuring May McAvoy and Edwin Stevens

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“Chrysanthemum prepares for her marriage.” 

Still from The Love of Chrysanthemum (1910), featuring Norma Talmadge (center)

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Alice Joyce, in a 1911 studio portrait (right), and in costume for an unidentified film (left, possibly The Trail of the Pomas Charm)