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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 1703

The School Teacher and the Waif

191217 minUnited States

Synopsis

Nora leaves an unhappy home to attend school, where ridicule and humiliation deepen her loneliness. A traveling seller exploits her vulnerability until her teacher intervenes.

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Video edition: Wikimedia Commons
Original language: No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs: 17:42
Subtitles: No subtitle track in this language

No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

Languages and subtitles

No subtitle track in this language

Wikimedia Commons · Biograph · Public domain

Cast

Edwin August

Mary Pickford

DirectorsD. W. Griffith

Behind the scenes

Mary Pickford plays Nora opposite Edwin August as the teacher. The Biograph drama combines the schoolroom story with the dangers faced by an isolated young person.

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Work catalogued as public domain in the United States.

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Availability checked on September 22, 2026.

Photograph credit

Photographs cropped, resized and optimized as WebP, displayed in monochrome.

Edwin August — Unknown author; photograph described and licensed on the linked Wikimedia Commons file page. · Public domain
Mary Pickford — Rufus Porter Moody · Public domain

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