Jones and the Lady Book Agent

Jones and the Lady Book Agent
Jones and the Lady Book Agent
	Film still with the book agent (Flora Finch) and Mr. Jones (John Cumpson)
Directed by	D. W. Griffith
Written by	Frank E. Woods
Produced by	American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, Manhattan, New York
Starring	John R. Cumpson ; Florence Lawrence ; Flora Finch
Cinematography	G. W. Bitzer
Release date	May 10, 1909;
Running time	8-9 minutes, 585 feet at release (part of split reel)
Country	United States
Languages	Silent; English intertitles

Last updated July 05, 2023

Jones and the Lady Book Agent is a 1909 American silent comedy film written by Frank E. Woods and directed by D. W. Griffith. Produced by the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company in New York City, the short stars John R. Cumpson, Florence Lawrence, and Flora Finch as the "lady book agent". It is one film in a series of 1908 and 1909 Biograph pictures in which Cumpson and Lawrence performed together as the married couple Mr. and Mrs. Jones.^[2]^[3] When this comedy was released in May 1909, it was distributed to theaters on a "split reel", which was a single projection reel that accommodated more than one motion picture. It shared its reel with another Biograph comedy short directed by Griffith, The French Duel.^[4] The film was released on May 10, 1909 by Biograph Company and was met by positive viewers. The film is presumed lost.

Plot

The comedy opens in the office of Mr. Edward Jones, who is being pestered by a female literary agent to buy a book from her. After leaving his office, the agent overhears Jones making insulting remarks about her. The agent, now seeking revenge, plants incriminating but false evidence of a romantic relationship between them, items that Edward's wife Emma will later see at their home. Emma is enraged when she sees the fabricated evidence, and she literally "beats up her husband".^[3] She then locks herself in their bedroom and begins packing her suitcase to go to her mother's home. In the end, however, all is forgiven after an apologetic letter from the agent arrives in which she confesses her scheme against the hapless Mr. Jones.

Further details about the film's storyline are given in a May 10, 1909 bulletin published by Biograph:

There is no question that the good-natured man is always made the "Patsy" and so it is that poor Jones, who is benignity personified, is always getting into hot water. His latest episode is an experience with a female book agent, who tried to sell him a book entitled "How to be happy, tho' wedded." The work does not appeal to affable Edward, and he with gentlemanly firmness rejects her from his office, as his friend Dick Smith enters, to whom he mimics the ludicrous antics of his visitor. All this is witnessed by this modern Clio, who is peeking through the keyhole. She vows to be revenged, and seeing a box of gloves which Jones has bought for his wife, she substitutes her corsets for the gloves, writes a note which she puts in his overcoat pocket, asking him to return her corsets, and finally sends a letter to Mrs. Jones, warning her of her husband's perfidy and to search his pockets for proof. Does the scheme work? Well, there seems to be a certainty a case of "Jones vs. Jones" appearing on the calendar of the Divorce Court, in the near future, but the book agent becomes conscience stricken and sends a letter of contrition to Mr. and Mrs. Jones explaining everything. Peace again reigns and Jones receives the osculatory balm for his throbbing forehead.^[5]

Cast

Biograph's Manhattan studio, where the comedy was filmed in three days in January 1909 Biograph-Studios-NYC-1908.jpg — Biograph's Manhattan studio, where the comedy was filmed in three days in January 1909

John R. Cumpson as Mr. Jones^[6]
Florence Lawrence as Mrs. Jones
Flora Finch as lady book agent
Mack Sennett as Dick Smith
Gertrude Robinson as maid
Owen Moore in office
Harry Solter in office
George Gebhardt in office
Robert Harron as messenger

Production

The screenplay, written by Frank E. Woods, was produced at Biograph's main studio, which in 1909 was located inside a large renovated brownstone mansion in New York City, in Manhattan, at 11 East 14th Street. Filmed over three days—on January 12, 14, and 25, 1909—director Griffith and cinematographer G. W. "Billy" Bitzer shot on interior sets at the studio.^[6]

The short's "anonymous" actors

Identifying cast members in early Biograph releases such as Jones and the Lady Book Agent is made more difficult by the fact that the studio, as a matter of company policy, did not begin publicly crediting its performers on screen, in trade publications, or in newspaper advertisements until years after this comedy's release. The names of the cast members in this short were generally unknown to theater audiences in 1909, as were the names of the rest of Biograph's relatively small staff of "photoplayers" and crew, including Griffith himself.^[7]^[8] At the time of this comedy's release, Florence Lawrence was already gaining widespread celebrity among filmgoers. Few people, though, outside the motion picture industry knew her name, so in 1909 and for the remainder of her time working at Biograph, the actress was referred to by admirers and in news articles in the media simply as "'the Biograph girl'".^[8]^[9] The studio would not begin to credit or publicize its performers by name until 1913.^[10]

Part of the "Jonesy" series

Jones and the Lady Book Agent is the ninth film in a series of thirteen very popular Biograph comedy shorts that were written by Frank E. Woods in 1908 and 1909. Twelve of those films were directed by Griffith and starred the duo of Cumpson and Lawrence as a married couple. Initially, the couple's surname was "Bibbs", but after their first screen performance together, the two actors played as Eddie and Emma Jones for the rest of the series.^[11]^{[lower-alpha 2]}

Released between September 1908 and September 1909, all of the "Jonesy" films from that period feature Cumpson as the portly and frequently "bewildered" Mr. Jones and Florence Lawrence as his pretty, much younger spouse.^[12] The other shorts in the series with Cumpson and Lawrence are A Smoked Husband (1908), Mr. Jones at the Ball (1908), Mrs. Jones Entertains (1909), Mr. Jones Has a Card Party (1909), The Joneses Have Amateur Theatricals (1909), His Wife's Mother (1909), Jones and His New Neighbors (1909), Her First Biscuits (1909), The Peachbasket Hat (1909), Jones' Burglar (1909), and Mrs. Jones' Lover (1908)^{[lower-alpha 3]} The general structure and comedic style of Jones and the Lady Book Agent replicated those found in all the releases in the series, common traits described by biographer Kelly R. Brown in her 1999 book Florence Lawrence, The Biograph Girl: America's First Movie Star. "The stories", writes Brown, "were pure slapstick comedy, straight from vaudeville, where usually a misunderstanding escalated into the kind of comic violence which audiences loved."^[12]

Release and reception

Although filmed in January 1909, the comedy was not released until nearly four months later, on May 10, an exceedingly long time after the completion of filming in the early silent era, when shorts were edited, having theatrical prints made, were promoted in the "trades", and released with remarkable speed. Usually those tasks required only a matter of a few weeks and, at times, even less time. For example, Jones and His New Neighbors, the release in the "Jones series" that preceded this picture, completed its filming at Biograph on February 25, 1909 and was released less than five weeks later, on March 29. While some delays were due to scheduling considerations with other productions and the appropriate pairing of split reels, an interval of four months between final filming and release was very unusual in 1909, especially for such brief screen subjects. The release of this Jones short was no doubt delayed in part due to its pairing with The French Duel. That comedy took only two days to shoot, but those filming days were widely spaced apart.^[13] Biograph production records show that the first day of filming took place on February 23; the second, not until 16 days later, on March 11. Inclement weather might have played a role in that delay, for after filming interior scenes of The French Duel at Biograph's Manhattan studio, Griffith shot needed outdoor footage on location in Coytesville, situated in the borough of Fort Lee, New Jersey.

After their release, the split-reel films circulated to theaters throughout the United States and continued to be promoted for weeks in film-industry publications and for months by newspapers in both large and small communities. The two Biograph shorts were often paired by theater managers with other split-reel releases distributed by Edison Studios in the same period. For example, in June 1909 in Barre, Vermont, the local theater advertised a joint presentation of Jones and the Lady Book Agent and The French Duel with the two Edison comedies Uncle Tom Wins and The Unsuccessful Superstition as well as with a full vaudeville show of skits and "Scotch" singers.^[14] This ninth comedy of the "Jones series", like its predecessors, was popular with audiences, with "very funny" and "clever" being common descriptions of the shorts in contemporary newspaper and theater advertisements.^[15]

Preservation status

Photographic prints and a film negative and positive of Jones and the Lady Book Agent survive in the Library of Congress (LOC), which holds a 205-foot paper roll of contact prints produced directly frame-by-frame from the comedy's original 35mm master negative.^[3]^{[lower-alpha 4]} Submitted by Biograph to the United States government in 1909, shortly before the film's release, the roll is part of the original documentation required by federal authorities for motion picture companies to obtain copyright protection for their productions.^[16] While the library's paper roll of the film is certainly not projectable, a negative copy of the roll's paper images was made and transferred onto modern polyester-based safety film stock to produce a positive print for screening. Those copies were made as part of a preservation project carried out during the 1950s and early 1960s by Kemp R. Niver and other LOC staff, who restored more than 3,000 early paper rolls of film images from the library's collection and created safety-stock copies.^[16]

Notes

↑ According to the reference How Movies Work by Bruce F. Kawin (New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1987, pp. 46-47), a full 1000-foot reel of film in the silent era had, on average, a maximum running time of 15 minutes. Also, silent films were generally projected at a "standard" speed of 16 frames per second, much slower than the 24 frames of later sound films.
↑ The 1908 short His Day of Rest, released on May 29 that year, is considered by some film historians to be Biograph's first "Jones" film because its screenplay was also written by Frank E. Woods and contained situations and characterizations that are identical to those found in the later Jones comedies. That film, however, was not directed by Griffith but by Wallace McCutcheon, and it starred Edward Dillon as a "Mr. Bibbs", not as the character of Mr. Jones. Although Cumpson and Lawrence were also identified as Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Bibbs in their first short together as a married couple, A Smoked Husband (1908), in all of the remaining installments in the series, the actors performed only as Mr. and Mrs. Jones.
↑ The 1909 short Mrs. Jones' Lover is also cited in some contemporary publications and in later film indexes by another title, I Want My Hat.
↑ The print of Jones and the Lady Book Agent preserved in the Library of Congress is numbered "FLA5504"; the negative copy, "FRA2378".

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References

↑ Advertisement for the two 1909 Biograph split-reel releases Jones and the Lady Book Agent and The French Duel; published in the trade journal The Moving Picture World , May 8, 1909, p. 583. Retrieved via Internet Archive (San Francisco, California), September 12, 2021.
↑ "Jones and the Lady Book Agent (1909)", catalog, American Film Institute (AFI), Los Angeles, California (hereinafter cited "AFI"). Retrieved September 12, 2021.
1 2 3 4 Niver, Kemp R. (compiler). Early Motion Pictures: The Paper Print Collection in the Library of Congress, "Jones and the Lady Book Agent", p. 170. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress (LOC), Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division, 1985. Retrieved via HathiTrust Digital Library, September 12, 2021.
↑ "The French Duel (1909)", American Film Institute (AFI), catalog, Los Angeles, California. Retrieved September 22, 2021.
↑ "Jones and the Lady Book Agent", original release bulletin 238, 10 May 1909, Biograph Bulletin, 1908-1912 (New York: Octagon Books, 1973), p. 88. I.A. Retrieved 13 September 2021.
1 2 Graham, Cooper C.; Higgins, Steve; Mancini, Elaine; Viera, João Luiz. Entry for "Jones and the Lady Book Agent", D. W. Griffith and the Biograph Company. Metuchen, New Jersey and London: The Scarecrow Press, 1985, p. 47. Retrieved via Internet Archive, September 12, 2021.
↑ Brown, Florence Lawrence, The Biograph Girl, pp. 23-32.
1 2 Brown Kelly. "Florence Lawrence", The Women Film Pioneers Project (WFPP), Columbia University Libraries, New York, N.Y. Retrieved September 5, 2021.
↑ Arvidson, Linda. When the Movies Were Young. New York: Dover Publishing, 1969 reprint with introduction by Edward Wagenknecht, pp. 59-60. I.A. ISBN 0-486-22300-0. Retrieved via Internet Archive, September 9, 2021.
↑ "Biograph Identities Revealed", Motography (Chicago), April 5, 1913, p. 222. Retrieved via Internet Archive, September 5, 2021. Also refer to Kelly R. Brown's Florence Lawrence, the Biograph Girl: America's First Movie Star (1999) about Biograph's policy of using anonymous or "unnamed" actors.
↑ Lawrence, Florence (1915) in collaboration with Monte M. Katterjohn. "Growing Up with the Movies", part 3, Photoplay Magazine (Chicago, Illinois), January 1915, p. 105. Retrieved via Internet Archive, September 11, 2021.
1 2 Brown, Florence Lawrence, The Biograph Girl, p. 29. Retrieved via Internet Archive, September 10, 2021.
↑ Graham and others. Entry for "The French Duel", D. W. Griffith and the Biograph Company, p. 47. Retrieved via Internet Archive, September 12, 2021.
↑ "Comique!", The Barre Daily Times (Barre, Vermont), June 10, 1909, p. 8, col. 5. Retrieved via "Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers", Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), Washington, D.C., September 13, 2021.
↑ See examples "Library Theatre", The Bennington Evening Banner (Bennington, Vermont), June 24, 1909, p. 5; "Amusements", The Brunswick News (Brunswick, Georgia), October 28, 1909, p. 7. Retrieved via "Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers", April 17, 2022.
1 2 Niver, "Preface", pp. ix-xiii.

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[2] According to the reference How Movies Work by Bruce F. Kawin (New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1987, pp. 46-47), a full 1000-foot reel of film in the silent era had, on average, a maximum running time of 15 minutes. Also, silent films were generally projected at a "standard" speed of 16 frames per second, much slower than the 24 frames of later sound films.

[13] The 1908 short His Day of Rest, released on May 29 that year, is considered by some film historians to be Biograph's first "Jones" film because its screenplay was also written by Frank E. Woods and contained situations and characterizations that are identical to those found in the later Jones comedies. That film, however, was not directed by Griffith but by Wallace McCutcheon, and it starred Edward Dillon as a "Mr. Bibbs", not as the character of Mr. Jones. Although Cumpson and Lawrence were also identified as Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Bibbs in their first short together as a married couple, A Smoked Husband (1908), in all of the remaining installments in the series, the actors performed only as Mr. and Mrs. Jones.

[15] The 1909 short Mrs. Jones' Lover is also cited in some contemporary publications and in later film indexes by another title, I Want My Hat.

[19] The print of Jones and the Lady Book Agent preserved in the Library of Congress is numbered "FLA5504"; the negative copy, "FRA2378".

[TMPW09-1] Advertisement for the two 1909 Biograph split-reel releases Jones and the Lady Book Agent and The French Duel; published in the trade journal The Moving Picture World , May 8, 1909, p. 583. Retrieved via Internet Archive (San Francisco, California), September 12, 2021.

[AFI09d-3] "Jones and the Lady Book Agent (1909)", catalog, American Film Institute (AFI), Los Angeles, California (hereinafter cited "AFI"). Retrieved September 12, 2021.

[LC85-4] 1 2 3 4 Niver, Kemp R. (compiler). Early Motion Pictures: The Paper Print Collection in the Library of Congress, "Jones and the Lady Book Agent", p. 170. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress (LOC), Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division, 1985. Retrieved via HathiTrust Digital Library, September 12, 2021.

[AFI09-5] "The French Duel (1909)", American Film Institute (AFI), catalog, Los Angeles, California. Retrieved September 22, 2021.

[BBulletin238-6] "Jones and the Lady Book Agent", original release bulletin 238, 10 May 1909, Biograph Bulletin, 1908-1912 (New York: Octagon Books, 1973), p. 88. I.A. Retrieved 13 September 2021.

[DWG1985-7] 1 2 Graham, Cooper C.; Higgins, Steve; Mancini, Elaine; Viera, João Luiz. Entry for "Jones and the Lady Book Agent", D. W. Griffith and the Biograph Company. Metuchen, New Jersey and London: The Scarecrow Press, 1985, p. 47. Retrieved via Internet Archive, September 12, 2021.

[8] Brown, Florence Lawrence, The Biograph Girl, pp. 23-32.

[KBrown-9] 1 2 Brown Kelly. "Florence Lawrence", The Women Film Pioneers Project (WFPP), Columbia University Libraries, New York, N.Y. Retrieved September 5, 2021.

[Arvidson-10] Arvidson, Linda. When the Movies Were Young. New York: Dover Publishing, 1969 reprint with introduction by Edward Wagenknecht, pp. 59-60. I.A. ISBN 0-486-22300-0. Retrieved via Internet Archive, September 9, 2021.

[Motog13-11] "Biograph Identities Revealed", Motography (Chicago), April 5, 1913, p. 222. Retrieved via Internet Archive, September 5, 2021. Also refer to Kelly R. Brown's Florence Lawrence, the Biograph Girl: America's First Movie Star (1999) about Biograph's policy of using anonymous or "unnamed" actors.

[Photoplay15-12] Lawrence, Florence (1915) in collaboration with Monte M. Katterjohn. "Growing Up with the Movies", part 3, Photoplay Magazine (Chicago, Illinois), January 1915, p. 105. Retrieved via Internet Archive, September 11, 2021.

[Brown29-14] 1 2 Brown, Florence Lawrence, The Biograph Girl, p. 29. Retrieved via Internet Archive, September 10, 2021.

[16] Graham and others. Entry for "The French Duel", D. W. Griffith and the Biograph Company, p. 47. Retrieved via Internet Archive, September 12, 2021.

[17] "Comique!", The Barre Daily Times (Barre, Vermont), June 10, 1909, p. 8, col. 5. Retrieved via "Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers", Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), Washington, D.C., September 13, 2021.

[18] See examples "Library Theatre", The Bennington Evening Banner (Bennington, Vermont), June 24, 1909, p. 5; "Amusements", The Brunswick News (Brunswick, Georgia), October 28, 1909, p. 7. Retrieved via "Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers", April 17, 2022.

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v t e Films directed by D. W. Griffith
1908	The Adventures of Dollie (1908) The Fight for Freedom (1908) The Tavern Keeper's Daughter (1908) The Black Viper (1908) The Red Man and the Child (1908) Deceived Slumming Party (1908) The Bandit's Waterloo (1908) A Calamitous Elopement (1908) The Greaser's Gauntlet (1908) The Man and the Woman (1908) The Fatal Hour (1908) For Love of Gold (1908) Balked at the Altar (1908) For a Wife's Honor (1908) Betrayed by a Handprint (1908) Monday Morning in a Coney Island Police Court (1908) The Girl and the Outlaw (1908) Behind the Scenes (1908) The Red Girl (1908) The Heart of O'Yama (1908) Where the Breakers Roar (1908) A Smoked Husband (1908) The Stolen Jewels (1908) The Devil (1908) The Zulu's Heart (1908) Father Gets in the Game (1908) Ingomar, the Barbarian (1908) The Vaquero's Vow (1908) The Planter's Wife (1908) Romance of a Jewess (1908) The Call of the Wild (1908) Concealing a Burglar (1908) After Many Years (1908) The Pirate's Gold (1908) The Taming of the Shrew (1908) The Guerrilla (1908) The Song of the Shirt (1908) The Ingrate (1908) A Woman's Way (1908) The Clubman and the Tramp (1908) Money Mad (1908) The Valet's Wife (1908) The Feud and the Turkey (1908) The Reckoning (1908) The Test of Friendship (1908) An Awful Moment (1908) The Christmas Burglars (1908) Mr. Jones at the Ball (1908) The Helping Hand (1908)
1909	One Touch of Nature (1909) The Maniac Cook (1909) Mrs. Jones Entertains (1909) The Honor of Thieves (1909) Love Finds a Way (1909) The Sacrifice (1909) A Rural Elopement (1909) Those Boys! (1909) The Criminal Hypnotist (1909) The Fascinating Mrs. Francis (1909) Mr. Jones Has a Card Party (1909) Those Awful Hats (1909) The Welcome Burglar (1909) The Cord of Life (1909) The Girls and Daddy (1909) The Brahma Diamond (1909) Edgar Allen Poe (1909) A Wreath in Time (1909) Tragic Love (1909) The Curtain Pole (1909) His Ward's Love (1909) The Joneses Have Amateur Theatricals (1909) The Hindoo Dagger (1909) The Politician's Love Story (1909) The Golden Louis (1909) At the Altar (1909) The Prussian Spy (1909) His Wife's Mother (1909) A Fool's Revenge (1909) The Wooden Leg (1909) The Roue's Heart (1909) The Salvation Army Lass (1909) The Lure of the Gown (1909) I Did It (1909) The Voice of the Violin (1909) The Deception (1909) And a Little Child Shall Lead Them (1909) A Burglar's Mistake (1909) A Drunkard's Reformation (1909) Trying to Get Arrested (1909) The Road to the Heart (1909) A Sound Sleeper (1909) Lady Helen's Escapade (1909) Lucky Jim (1909) Resurrection (1909) Two Memories (1909) Eloping with Auntie(1909) The Cricket on the Hearth (1909) The Violin Maker of Cremona (1909) The Lonely Villa (1909) The Son's Return(1909) Her First Biscuits (1909) The Country Doctor (1909) The Cardinal's Conspiracy(1909) Tender Hearts(1909) The Friend of the Family(1909) The Renunciation (1909) The Mended Lute (1909) The Sealed Room (1909) The Little Darling (1909) The Hessian Renegades (1909) Getting Even (1909) Leather Stocking (1909) Pippa Passes or The Song of Conscience (1909) Fools of Fate (1909) The Gibson Goddess (1909) Nursing a Viper (1909) The Death Disc: A Story of the Cromwellian Period (1909) Through the Breakers(1909) The Red Man's View (1909) A Corner in Wheat (1909) A Trap for Santa Claus (1909) In Little Italy (1909) To Save Her Soul (1909) The Day After (1909) Choosing a Husband (1909) Bill Sharkey's Last Game (1909)
1910	The Rocky Road (1910) The Woman from Mellon's (1910) The Englishman and the Girl (1910) In Old California (1910) Faithful (1910) The Two Brothers (1910) As It Is In Life (1910) A Romance of the Western Hills (1910) The Unchanging Sea (1910) Ramona (1910) In the Season of Buds (1910) A Child of the Ghetto (1910) In the Border States (1910) What the Daisy Said (1910) A Flash of Light (1910) An Arcadian Maid (1910) The House with Closed Shutters (1910) Wilful Peggy (1910) The Modern Prodigal (1910) A Mohawk's Way (1910) The Oath and the Man (1910) Rose O'Salem-Town (1910) The Fugitive (1910) Winning Back His Love (1910)
1911	The Two Paths (1911) The Italian Barber (1911) His Trust (1911) His Trust Fulfilled (1911) Fate's Turning (1911) Heart Beats of Long Ago (1911) What Shall We Do with Our Old? (1911) Fisher Folks (1911) His Daughter (1911) The Lily of the Tenements (1911) A Decree of Destiny (1911) Was He a Coward? (1911) The Lonedale Operator (1911) The Spanish Gypsy (1911) The Broken Cross (1911) How She Triumphed (1911) The New Dress (1911) The Crooked Road (1911) The White Rose of the Wilds (1911) The Smile of a Child (1911) Enoch Arden: Part I (1911) Enoch Arden: Part II (1911) The Primal Call (1911) Fighting Blood (1911) The Indian Brothers (1911) A Country Cupid (1911) The Last Drop of Water (1911) Out from the Shadow (1911) The Blind Princess and the Poet (1911) Swords and Hearts (1911) The Stuff Heroes Are Made Of (1911) Her Awakening (1911) The Making of a Man (1911) The Adventures of Billy (1911) The Long Road (1911) Love in the Hills (1911) The Battle (1911) Through Darkened Vales (1911) The Miser's Heart (1911) A Woman Scorned (1911) The Voice of the Child (1911)
1912	The Eternal Mother (1912) The Old Bookkeeper (1912) For His Son (1912) The Transformation of Mike (1912) A Sister's Love (1912) Under Burning Skies (1912) The Sunbeam (1912) A String of Pearls (1912) The Girl and Her Trust (1912) The Root of Evil (1912) The Goddess of Sagebrush Gulch (1912) The Punishment (1912) The Female of the Species (1912) Just Like a Woman (1912) One Is Business, the Other Crime (1912) The Lesser Evil (1912) A Beast at Bay (1912) An Outcast Among Outcasts (1912) Home Folks (1912) A Temporary Truce (1912) The Spirit Awakened (1912) Man's Lust for Gold (1912) Man's Genesis (1912) The Sands of Dee (1912) The Narrow Road (1912) The Inner Circle (1912) A Change of Spirit (1912) An Unseen Enemy (1912) Blind Love (1912) The Massacre (1912) Two Daughters of Eve (1912) Friends (1912) So Near, yet So Far (1912) A Feud in the Kentucky Hills (1912) The Chief's Blanket (1912) In the Aisles of the Wild (1912) The One She Loved (1912) The Painted Lady (1912) The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912) Heredity (1912) Gold and Glitter (1912) My Baby (1912) The Informer (1912) Brutality (1912) The New York Hat (1912) My Hero (1912) The Burglar's Dilemma (1912) A Cry for Help (1912) The God Within (1912)
1913	Three Friends (1913) The Telephone Girl and the Lady (1913) An Adventure in the Autumn Woods (1913) The Tender Hearted Boy (1913) A Misappropriated Turkey (1913) Brothers (1913) Oil and Water (1913) A Chance Deception (1913) Love in an Apartment Hotel (1913) Broken Ways (1913) A Girl's Stratagem (1913) The Unwelcome Guest (1913) Near to Earth (1913) Fate (1913) A Welcome Intruder (1913) The Sheriff's Baby (1913) The Hero of Little Italy (1913) The Little Tease (1913) A Misunderstood Boy (1913) The Left-Handed Man (1913) The Lady and the Mouse (1913) If We Only Knew (1913) The Wanderer (1913) The Stolen Loaf (1913) The House of Darkness (1913) The Yaqui Cur (1913) Just Gold (1913) The Ranchero's Revenge (1913) A Timely Interception (1913) Death's Marathon (1913) The Mothering Heart (1913) The Sorrowful Shore (1913) The Enemy's Baby (1913) The Mistake (1913) Two Men of the Desert (1913) Madonna of the Storm (1913) The Battle at Elderbush Gulch (1913) The Conscience of Hassan Bey (1913)
1914–1931	Judith of Bethulia (1914) Battle of the Sexes (1914, lost) Brute Force (1914) Home, Sweet Home (1914) The Escape (1914, lost) The Avenging Conscience: or "Thou Shalt Not Kill" (1914) The Birth of a Nation (1915) Intolerance (1916) Hearts of the World (1918) The Great Love (1918, lost) Lillian Gish in a Liberty Loan Appeal (1918, lost) The Greatest Thing in Life (1918, lost) A Romance of Happy Valley (1919) The Girl Who Stayed at Home (1919) Broken Blossoms (1919) True Heart Susie (1919) Scarlet Days (1919) The Greatest Question (1919) The Idol Dancer (1920) Remodeling Her Husband (1920) The Love Flower (1920) Way Down East (1920) Dream Street (1921) Orphans of the Storm (1921) One Exciting Night (1922) The White Rose (1923) America (1924) Isn't Life Wonderful (1924) Sally of the Sawdust (1925) That Royle Girl (1925, lost) The Sorrows of Satan (1926) Drums of Love (1928) The Battle of the Sexes (1928) Lady of the Pavements (1929) Abraham Lincoln (1930) The Struggle (1931)