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Key Films of 1913

Mabel Normand in Keystone's Bangville Police (1913)

"It’s perhaps appropriate that confusion reigns over the debut appearance of Mack Sennett’s Keystone Kops, madcap enforcers of the law"

Sam Kaufman, Val Paul and Lois Weber in Weber's Suspense (1913)

In 1913, critics considered Lois Weber the equal of D. W. griffith, both in talent and influence.

King Baggot in Herbert Brenon's Ivanhoe (1913)

On 22nd June 1913, a small part of Hollywood descended on the Welsh town of Chepstow...

Ethel Grandin (right) in George Loane Tucker's Traffic in Souls (1913)

Films featuring lurid tales of unscrupulous white slavers luring innocent middle-class white girls into prostitution inflamed impressionable audiences...

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