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Friends (1912 film)

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Friends
Henry B. Walthall and Mary Pickford
Directed byD. W. Griffith
Written byD. W. Griffith
StarringMary Pickford
Henry B. Walthall
Lionel Barrymore
Harry Carey
CinematographyG. W. Bitzer
Distributed byBiograph
Release date
  • September 23, 1912 (1912-09-23)
Running time
13 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguagesSilent film
English intertitles

Friends is a 1912 film written and directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Mary Pickford, Henry B. Walthall, Lionel Barrymore, and Harry Carey.[1] Walthall and Barrymore portray two old friends who each wind up involved with a beautiful girl (Pickford) who lives above a mining camp saloon.

The film, by the Biograph Company, was shot in Fort Lee, New Jersey when many early film studios in America's first motion picture industry were based there at the beginning of the 20th century.[2][3][4] A print of Friends was run at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in July 2007 as part of a Biograph retrospective.[5]

It contains what Mary Pickford said in a CBC Radio interview to be the first closeup shot in all of cinema! (one taken of herself)[6]

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References

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  1. ^ D. W. Griffith, American film master. Museum of Modern Art. 1965. p. 43.
  2. ^ Koszarski, Richard (2004), Fort Lee: The Film Town, Rome, Italy: John Libbey Publishing -CIC srl, ISBN 0-86196-653-8
  3. ^ "Studios and Films". Fort Lee Film Commission. Archived from the original on 2018-10-20. Retrieved 2011-05-30.
  4. ^ Fort Lee Film Commission (2006), Fort Lee Birthplace of the Motion Picture Industry, Arcadia Publishing, ISBN 0-7385-4501-5
  5. ^ "Mary Pickford". noirestyle. Archived from the original on October 11, 2007. Retrieved 2010-09-05.
  6. ^ "Mary Pickford (CBC Radio) Interview (May 25 1959)". YouTube. 20 February 2012.
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