Dream of a Rarebit Fiend (Edison Manufacturing Co., US 1906) Two Paths (American Mutoscope and Biograph Co., US 1911) The Cry of the Children (Thanhouser Film Corp., US 1912) Salambo (Italy, World Film Corp., US 1914)

Dryden at 60 Years — Program #1
From the Development of Comedy through Narrative Drama to Film Spectacle
Originally screened in the Dryden in April 1951.
The program includes the following titles with live accompaniment by Philip C. Carli. (16 and 35mm shorts, 75 min.)

DREAM OF A RAREBIT FIEND – A trick film directed by Edwin S. Porter.

TWO PATHS - James Card wrote in 1951: “The little motion picture sermon by D.W. Griffith you have just seen is an example of how seriously motion pictures were beginning to look at life by 1911.”

THE CRY OF THE CHILDREN – From the original 1951 Dryden program: “This film is built around a poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and is a grim and uncompromising protest against child labor.”

SALAMBO – This Italian costume drama rivaled the film spectacles of even D. W. Griffith and Cecil B. DeMille. This film has been restored to be as complete as possible and to add a color section from an Italian film collector.