The Lesson

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Channel: Eye Filmmuseum · 2015 · Film & Animation

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This film is from the Eye Filmmuseum collection. Many films in this collection contain outdated information or offensive language/images. While this is problematic, we do not wish to erase these films from (film) history. As a film museum, we show films as much as possible in their original form.   


 Director: D.W. Griffith | Production Country: United States | Year: 1910 | Production Company: Biograph (United States) | FLM38035 | Film from the collection of Eye (Amsterdam) - www.eyefilm.nl

Short drama about the commandment "honour your father and your mother".

Cast: Dorothy West, Joseph Graybill, Stephanie Longfellow, Jeanie Macpherson, Charles West, Verner Clarges, Christy Cabanne, Dell Henderson.


This film is from the Jean Desmet Collection at EYE. 
Jean Desmet (1875-1956) was one of the leading cinema operators and film distributors in the Netherlands from 1907 – 1916. The Jean Desmet Collection at EYE has more than 900 films, and is included UNESCO's Memory of the World Register.

https://www.eyefilm.nl/en/collection/collections/film/film-files/de-jaren-twintig-en-dertig/file-desmet


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