Friends (1912)

Directed by

D. W. Griffith

Genre

silent film

Country

United States

Runtime

17 min

Rated

NR

Rating

5.5 of 10 from 10 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two old friends both fall for the same beautiful girl who lives above a mining camp saloon. The film is a short silent drama from 1912.

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What happens

Friends is a 1912 silent short film written and directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Mary Pickford, Henry B. Walthall, Lionel Barrymore, and Harry Carey. 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. 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. 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). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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