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Florence La Badie

Mary

James Cruze

Micah…

William Russell

Herod

Harry Benham

Angel Gabriel

Justus D. Barnes

Gaspar, a Magi

Charles Horan

Melchior, a Magi

Riley Chamberlin

Balthasar, a Magi

Harry Marks

Scribe

N.Z. Wood

Scribe
(as N.S. Woods)

Lawrence Merton

Scribe

David Thompson

Pharisee, rabbi
(as David H. Thompson)

Lew Woods

Pharisee, scribe

Joseph Graybill

Roman messenger

Carl M. Leviness

Shepherd
(as Carl LeViness)

Frank Grimmer

Shepherd

Ethyle Cooke

Director
- Lawrence Marston
Writer
- Lloyd Lonergan
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Trivia
This rare film was acquired from the British Film Institute in circa 1996 by Thanhouser Company Film Preservation, Inc., who have since made it available for purchase on DVD.

Alternate versions
The original three-reel negative was lost in a fire shortly after release; surviving copies are edited to a single reel.

Connections
Featured in The Thanhouser Studio and the Birth of American Cinema (2014)

A flat retelling of the birth of Christ from Thanhouser. Apparently incomplete - although in an abridged version rather than a missing reel - and it shows in the way that a surly Herod simply disappears. Care has clearly been taken with costumes and effects but an awful lot of time is spent with the wise men pointing in reverential awe at a suspiciously low star.