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Little Lady Eileen (1916)

Little Lady Eileen poster
Directed by
J. Searle Dawley
Genre
drama film, fantasy film, silent film
Country
United States
Runtime
50 min
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young girl lives through a fantasy adventure. A special camera trick lets the same actor play two roles at once.

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What happens

Little Lady Eileen is a lost 1916 American silent fantasy drama film starring Marguerite Clark. It was directed by J. Searle Dawley and produced by Adolph Zukor. The film uses double exposure photography to allow Vernon Steele to play two different characters within the same shot. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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