The Curtain Pole (1909)
Note: this print runs 73 minutes against a recorded 13 minutes. It is the best copy we have found; we keep looking for a complete print.
With Mack Sennett, Harry Solter, Florence Lawrence, Linda Arvidson, Clara T. Bracy, George M. Gebhardt, Arthur V. Johnson, Jeanie MacPherson
Directed by D. W. Griffith, Mack Sennett
The Curtain Pole is a 1909 American silent short comedy film directed by D. W. Griffith. A print of the film still exists. The film was made by the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company when it and many other early film studios in America's first motion picture industry were based in Fort Lee, New Jersey at the beginning of the 20th century.
Synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA. Streaming from the Internet Archive.
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