By Fire and Water

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Channel: Eye Filmmuseum · 2016 · 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 Many films in this collection contain outdated information or offensive language/images.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: Ashley Miller | Production Country: United States | Year: 1913 | Production Company: Edison Manufacturing Company (United States) | FLM9747 | Film from the collection of Eye (Amsterdam) - https://www.eyefilm.nl/en 

A dramatic one-act film. The wife of the captain of a canal boat chooses the nicer boat and nicer uniform of another captain. She reconsiders her choice when she is rescued by her own husband after a fire. 

Cast: Frank McGlynn sr, Herbert Prior, Richard Neill, Ethel Browning, Mabel Trunelle, Kathleen Coughlin, Edward Boulden, Edward Mack.

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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