Her First Biscuits
Directed byD. W. Griffith
Written byFrank E. Woods
StarringJohn R. Cumpson
Florence Lawrence
CinematographyBilly Bitzer
Release date
  • June 17, 1909 (1909-06-17)
Running time
7 minutes (514 feet on split reel at release)[a]
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent
PLAY segment of film with Cumpson and Lawrence; runtime 00:00:44.

Her First Biscuits is a 1909 American silent short comedy film written by Frank E. Woods, directed by D. W. Griffith, and starring John R. Cumpson and Florence Lawrence. At its release in June 1909, the comedy was distributed to theaters on a "split reel", which was a single projection reel that accommodated more than one motion picture. It shared its reel with another Biograph short directed by Griffith, the drama The Faded Lilies.[1] Prints of both films are preserved in the film archive of the Library of Congress.[2]

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Notes

  1. ^ According to the reference How Movies Work by Bruce F. Kawin (New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1987, pp. 46-47), a full 1000-foot reel of film in the silent era had, on average, a maximum running time of 15 minutes. Also, silent films were generally projected in the early 1900s at a "standard" speed of 16 frames per second, much slower than the 24 frames of later sound films. A 514-foot film in 1909 would have therefore had a runtime between 7 and 8 minutes.

References

  1. ^ "Biograph Films", advertisement, The Moving Picture World (New York City), 12 June 1909, p. 783. Internet Archive (I.A.), San Francisco, California Retrieved 5 September 2021.
  2. ^ "Her First Biscuits". Silent Era. Retrieved December 6, 2014.

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