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Billy's Stratagem

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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 Many films in this collection contain outdated information or offensive language/images.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: D.W. Griffith | Production Country: United States | Year: 1912 | Production Company: Biograph (United States) | FLM7485 | Film from the collection of Eye (Amsterdam) - https://www.eyefilm.nl/

Billy and his sister are home alone with their grandfather, when they are attacked by a bunch of drunken 'wild' Indians. The grandfather has a heart attack and dies on the spot. Billy tries to protect himself and his sister, by blowing up the whole house when the Indians get in, so that he and his sister can be saved.

Cast: William J. Butler, Edna Foster (role: Billy), Robert Harron, Wilfred Lucas, Claire McDowell, Inez Seabury, Edith Haldeman.

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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