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The Miller’s Daughter
(1905) United States of America
B&W : One reel / 975 feet
Directed by Edwin S. Porter and Wallace McCutcheon

Cast: (unknown)

Edison Manufacturing Company production; distributed by Edison Manufacturing Company. / From the play Hazel Kirke by Steele MacKaye. Cinematography by Edwin S. Porter. / © 25 October 1905 by Thomas A. Edison [H67874, H67875, H67876, H67877, H67878, H67879, H67880, H67881, H67882, H67883, H67884, H67885]. Released 6 November 1905. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The production was shot in Scarsdale, New York, and at Edison’s 21st Street studio, New York, New York, in September 1905. The Before Hollywood Project prepared a restoration print which features a frame enlargement and an original Edison catalog film description to suggest a missing scene.

Drama.

Survival status: Print exists in the Museum of Modern Art film archive.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Visions

Listing updated: 16 July 2008.

References: Film viewing : Leyda-Before pp. 10, 43, 55, 82, 125; Musser-Before pp. 11, 27; Robinson-Palace p. 125 : Website-AFI.

Home video: DVD.