| The Medicine Bottle | |
|---|---|
 Scene with "Alice Ross" (Adele DeGarde) talking on candlestick telephone | |
| Directed by | D. W. Griffith |
| Written by | D. W. Griffith |
| Produced by | American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, Manhattan, New York |
| Starring | Florence Lawrence Adele DeGarde Marion Leonard |
| Cinematography | G. W. Bitzer |
Release date |
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Running time | 7 minutes, 472 feet (part of split reel)[1][a] |
| Country | United States |
| Languages | Silent English intertitles |
The Medicine Bottle is a 1909 American silent thriller film written and directed by D. W. Griffith, produced by the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company in New York City, and starring Florence Lawrence, Adele DeGarde, and Marion Leonard.[2][3] At its release in March 1909, the short was distributed to theaters on a "split reel", which was a single projection reel that accommodated more than one film. This drama shared its reel with another Biograph short directed by Griffith, the comedy Jones and His New Neighbors.[4]
Original contact-print paper rolls of both motion pictures, as well as projectable safety-stock copies of them, are preserved in the Library of Congress.[3][5]
- ^ Advertisement for the two 1909 Biograph split-reel releases The Medicine Bottle and Jones And His New Neighbors; published in the trade journal The Moving Picture World, 3 April 1909, p. 393. Internet Archive (hereinafter cited "I.A."), San Francisco, California. Retrieved 4 September 2021.
- ^ "The Medicine Bottle (1909)", catalog, American Film Institute (AFI), Los Angeles, California. Retrieved 5 September 2021.
- ^ a b Niver, Kemp R. (compiler). Early Motion Pictures: The Paper Print Collection in the Library of Congress, "The Medicine Bottle", p. 203. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division, 1985. HathiTrust Digital Library. Retrieved 4 September 2021.
- ^ "Jones and His New Neighbors (1909)", catalog, AFI. Retrieved 7 September 2021.
- ^ Bennett, Carl. "The Medicine Bottle", The Progressive Silent Film List. State of Washington. Retrieved 3 September 2021.
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