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viii List of Illustrations
FACING PAGE
The most artistic fireside glow of the early days . . . .118
The famous "light effect" 118
From "The Mills of the Gods" 119
Biograph's first Western studio 119
A desert caravan of the early days 134
From "The Last Drop of Water," one of the first two-reelers . 134
Mabel Normand "off duty" 135
Joe Graybill, Blanche Sweet and Vivian Prescott in "How She
Triumphed" 150
Mack Sennett, Mabel Normand and Fred Mace in a "Keystone
Comedy" 151
Lunch on the "lot," Biograph's "last word" studio, the second year 151
Mary Pickford as a picturesque Indian 166
The Hollywood Inn, the setting for "The Dutch Gold Mine" . 167
From "Comrades," the first picture directed by Mack Sennett . 167
Mary Pickford's first picture, "The Violin Maker of Cremona" . 182 Mary Pickford's second picture, "The Lonely Villa" . . .182
Mary Pickford and Mack Sennett in "An Arcadian Maid" . . 183 Mary Pickford, Mack Sennett, Joe Graybill and Marion Sunshine
in "The Italian Barber" 183
Linda Griffith and Mr. Mackay in "Mission Bells," a Kinemacolor
picture play 198
A rain effect of early days at Kinemacolor's Los Angeles studio . 199
A corner of Biograph's stylish Bronx studio 214
The beginning of the Griffith regime at 4500 Sunset Boulevard . 215 Blanche Sweet and Kate Bruce in "Judith of Bethulia," the first
four-reel picture directed by D. W. Griffith 230
Lillian Russell and Gaston Bell in a scene illustrative of her
beauty lectures, taken in Kinemacolor 231
Sarah Bernhardt, the first "Famous Player" 231