The Lonedale Operator (1911)
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Of special importance in motion picture history is this early work by famed director DW Griffith, in which he demonstrates his incredible technique as a filmmaker. With a simple plot-line Griffith brings things to a famed climax composed of 66 rapid shots.
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Presents a D W Griffith production containing some shots of Santa Fe American-type locomotive no. 9, a unit built in the 1870's and scrapped by the Santa Fe in Topeka in 1914. A drama in which a telegraph operator wards off payroll thieves with a wrench resembling a gun while her engineer-sweetheart races a train to her rescue.
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