Key Films of 1916

Fatty and Mabel Adrift, the best of the duo's outings, illustrated their dissatisfaction with Mack Sennett's techniques.

Director Cecil B. DeMille shot The Cheat during the day and The Golden Chance by night.

His Picture in the Papers was written by twenty-six-year-old Anita Loos, a precocious talent who sold her first scenario to Lubin while barely out of her teens.

The Trail of the Lonesome Pine is a retrograde step for DeMille after producing the classics The Cheat and The Golden Chance

Pickford’s golden locks were her most recognisable feature, and she made a great deal out of having her brother cut them off... surely anticipating the gasps of horror the deed would wrench from her fans.

The studio constructed thirty-eight timber buildings on the Ince lot in Culver City...just so they could burn them down...

Too often critics and reviewers assumed Lois Weber's husband to be the dominant talent of the partnership...

Ince's flawed masterpiece helped decide the outcome of a Presidential election...

Griffith intended Intolerance to be a rebuke to critics of the racism in The Birth of a Nation rather than an apology for its contents...