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Directed by | J. Farrell MacDonald |
Written by | C.B. Hoadley |
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Distributed by | Motion Picture Distributors and Sales Company |
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Country | United States |
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The Worth of a Man is a 1912 American dramatic silent film directed by J. Farrell MacDonald. It was produced by the Independent Moving Pictures (IMP) Company of New York. [1]
Mae Marsh was an American film actress with a career spanning over 50 years.
Robert G. Vignola was an Italian-American actor, screenwriter, and film director. A former stage actor, he appeared in many motion pictures produced by Kalem Company and later moved to directing, becoming one of the silent screen's most prolific directors. He directed a handful of films in the early years of talkies but his career essentially ended in the silent era.
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Mignon Anderson was an American film and stage actress. Her career was at its peak in the 1910s.
Harry A. Pollard was an American silent film actor and director. His wife was silent screen star Margarita Fischer.
Albert Edward Coxen was an English-born American actor. He appeared in over 200 films during his career.
Northbrook College is a further education and higher education college with three campuses: Broadwater Campus and West Durrington Campus in Worthing and Shoreham Airport Campus in Shoreham-by-Sea. It was founded as West Sussex College of Art & Design in 1912 and became Northbrook College Sussex in 1986. In 2017 Northbrook merged with City College Brighton & Hove to create a unified college under the name Greater Brighton Metropolitan College (MET). Northbrook College is now part of the Chichester College Group after Greater Brighton Metropolitan College merged with CCG on 1 August 2021.
William Christy Cabanne was an American film director, screenwriter, and silent film actor.
Charles Hill Mailes was a Canadian actor of the silent era.
Charles Manford "Barney" Furey was an American actor of the silent era. He appeared in more than 100 films between 1912 and 1937. He was born in Boise, Idaho and died in Los Angeles, California.
George Nichols, sometimes credited in films as George O. Nicholls, was an American actor and film director. He is perhaps best remembered for his work at Mack Sennett's Keystone Studios.
Alec B. Francis was an English actor, largely of the silent era. He appeared in more than 240 films between 1911 and 1934.
Warren Cook was an American film actor of the silent era. Cook was born in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1901, he appeared in The Shaughraun at the Castle Square Theatre in Boston. He was part of the stock company based at Castle Square Theatre. On Broadway, Cook appeared in The Conspiracy 1912). He had minor roles and appeared in more than 60 films between 1914 and 1927.
Worth (1909–1912) was an American Thoroughbred race horse. He was the winner of the 1912 Kentucky Derby, an achievement he is best known for.
Psychedelic film is a film genre characterized by the influence of psychedelia and the experiences of psychedelic drugs. Psychedelic films typically contain visual distortion and experimental narratives, often emphasizing psychedelic imagery. They might reference drugs directly, or merely present a distorted reality resembling the effects of psychedelic drugs. Their experimental narratives often purposefully try to distort the viewers' understanding of reality or normality.
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Man's Genesis is a short 1912 silent American film starring Robert Harron and Mae Marsh. It was directed by D. W. Griffith for the Biograph Company and survives from an era from which many films are now lost. The movie's plot involves a grandfather recounting a story about cavemen fighting over a woman to his squabbling grandchildren. The work was described as being the first "primitive man" film ever made and, at the time, as the "greatest photoplay of its kind ever made". It is credited as being responsible for creating the pre-historic film boom that occurred in the following years. The film was re-issued alongside other Biograph films on July 23, 1915.