The Reprieve: An Episode in the Life of Abraham Lincoln (1908)

Directed by

Van Dyke Brooke

Genre

drama film, silent film

Country

United States

Runtime

4 min

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

A silent film from 1908 shows President Abraham Lincoln pardoning a soldier named William Scott.

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What happens

The Reprieve: An Episode in the Life of Abraham Lincoln was a 1908 film that included an unknown actor portraying US President Abraham Lincoln pardoning William Scott (The Sleeping Sentinel). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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