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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 1698

If We Only Knew

191310 minUnited States

Video edition: Wikimedia Commons
Original language: No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: English.
This copy runs: 9:39
Subtitles: No subtitle track in this language

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Wikimedia Commons · D. W. Griffith · Public domain

Synopsis

A small girl wanders away from her distracted nanny and drifts out to sea in a boat. Fishermen rescue her, while her parents find belongings on the shore and fear that she has drowned.

Cast

Henry B. Walthall

Blanche Sweet

DirectorsD. W. Griffith

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Henry B. Walthall — Tower Magazines, Inc., photographer unknown · Public domain
Blanche Sweet — Hartsook · Public domain

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