![]() ![]() The 1916 version of The Trail of the Lonesome Pine was one of the movies Eastman House chose to dust off, restore and upload. Coupled with the television airing and video release of several other obscure DeMille titles from the teens and twenties ( The Squaw Man, The Virginian, Carmen, The Cheat, The Golden Chance, Joan the Woman, The Little American, The Whispering Chorus, Old Wives for New, Don’t Change Your Husband, Male and Female, Why Change Your Wife?, The Affairs of Anatol, Manslaughter, The Ten Commandments, The Volga Boatman, The King of Kings and The Godless Girl), it provided another fascinating link for film historians in assessing the legendary director’s early career. And though the company copyright was branded into the lower corner of every frame, even at the expense of obscuring certain title cards at times, posting these movies online constituted an admirable attempt to make long unseen treasures available again to the general public they were originally intended for. had the good will to swing wide their vaults. The archive made available over their website many silent features and short films it would’ve been impossible for most people to see under normal circumstances. For a brief period of time, The George Eastman House in Rochester N.Y.
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