Episode Details

The start of the 1910s doesn’t quite immediately usher in the cinematic measurement that would come to rule the decade: the feature film. But proto-forms of what would become the narrative standard arise in 1910, and otherwise, exciting images, narrative experiences, and affecting displays of historical milieu can be found in the productions of the year.

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Films mentioned:

• The Broken Oath (1910) - Harry Solter
• The Railroad Porter (1912) - William D. Foster
• The Birth of a Race (1918) - John W. Noble
• The Birth of a Nation (1915) - D.W. Griffith
• The Actor’s Children (1910) - Barry O’Neill
• In Old California (1910) - D.W. Griffith
• Ramona (1910) - D.W. Griffith
• In the Sultan’s Power (1909) - Francis Boggs
• The Heart of a Race Tout (1909) - Francis Boggs
• The Lad from Old Ireland (1910) - Sidney Olcott
• The White Slave Trade (1910) - August Blom
• Jeffries-Johnson World’s Championship Boxing Contest (1910) - unknown
• Frankenstein (1910) - J. Searle Dawley
• A Christmas Carol (1910) - J. Searle Dawley
• Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1910) - Edwin S. Porter