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| An Unseen Enemy | |
|---|---|
 Still with Lillian and Dorothy Gish | |
| Directed by | D. W. Griffith |
| Written by | Edward Acker |
| Starring | Lillian Gish Dorothy Gish Harry Carey Elmer Booth Robert Harron |
| Cinematography | G. W. Bitzer |
| Music by | Robert Israel (new score) |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | General Film Company |
Release date |
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Running time | 15–16 minutes (1 reel, full) |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
Play film; runtime 00:15:17.
An Unseen Enemy is a 1912 Biograph Company short silent film directed by D. W. Griffith, and was the first film to be made starring the actresses Lillian Gish and Dorothy Gish.[1] A critic of the time stated that "the Gish sisters gave charming performances in this one-reel film".[2] The film was shot in Fort Lee, New Jersey where early film studios in America's first motion picture industry were based at the beginning of the 20th century.[3][4][5] Consistent with practice at that time, the actors in the cast and their roles are not listed in the film.[6] (The car chase near the end was not filmed in Fort Lee. It began in Little Silver, NJ and ended in Oceanport, NJ, the movable Goose Neck Bridge connecting the two).
- ^ "An Unseen Enemy at Silent Era". Silent Era. Retrieved 2007-01-27.
- ^ "The Biograph Collection". Still Moving: the Film and Media Collections of The Museum of Modern Art. Museum of Modern Art. 2006. p. 41.
- ^ Koszarski, Richard (2004), Fort Lee: The Film Town, Rome, Italy: John Libbey Publishing, ISBN 0-86196-653-8
- ^ "Studios and Films". Fort Lee Film Commission. Archived from the original on 2011-04-25. Retrieved 2011-05-30.
- ^ "Fort Lee Birthplace of the Motion Picture Industry", Fort Lee Film Commission, Arcadia Publishing, 2006, ISBN 0-7385-4501-5
- ^ Mayer, Ruth (2020). "Unique Doubles: Ornamental Sisters and Dual Roles in the Transitional Era Cinema". Journal of Cinema and Media Studies. University of Texas Press: 13–19. ISSN 0009-7101. Retrieved 2020-03-24.