WEB PREMIERE! Featuring a New Score
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Billy and His Pal (1911)
Production Company: Star Films. Director: William Haddock?. Camera: William Paley. Cast: Francis Ford (Jim), Edith Storey (Billy/Bobby). Transfer Note: Copied at 16 frames per second from a 35mm B&W print preserved by the Museum of Modern Art from source material provided by the New Zealand Film Archive. New Music: Michael D. Mortilla. Running Time: 15 minutes.
At the dawn of the 20th century, the films of French filmmaker Georges Méliès were among the most popular in the world. And the most pirated. Unscrupulous American film studios regularly took Méliès’s films, obscured his trademark, and sold the works as their own.
Méliès sent his older brother Gaston to the United States to enforce his copyrights. Gaston arrived in New York in November 1902 and immediately placed an ad in the trade papers announcing his uncompromising attitude toward protecting his brother’s work, reading in part, “…we are...
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