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When the Earth Trembled

  • 1913
  • 42m
IMDb RATING
5.8/10
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Ethel Clayton, Bartley McCullum, Mary Powers, and Layton Meisle in When the Earth Trembled (1913)
DramaShortThriller

A mother with two young children survives the San Francisco earthquake disaster.A mother with two young children survives the San Francisco earthquake disaster.A mother with two young children survives the San Francisco earthquake disaster.

  • Director
    • Barry O'Neil
  • Writer
    • Edwin Barbour
  • Stars
    • Harry Myers
    • Ethel Clayton
    • Richard Morris
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  • IMDb RATING
    5.8/10
    60
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    • Director
      • Barry O'Neil
    • Writer
      • Edwin Barbour
    • Stars
      • Harry Myers
      • Ethel Clayton
      • Richard Morris
    • 1User review
    • 2Critic reviews
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    Harry Myers
    Harry Myers
    • Paul Girard Jr.
    Ethel Clayton
    Ethel Clayton
    • Dora Sims
    Richard Morris
    Richard Morris
    • Richard
    Mrs. George W. Walters
    • Coffee Mary
    Bartley McCullum
    • Paul Girard Sr.
    Mary Powers
    • Dora's Little Girl
    Layton Meisle
    • Dora's Little Boy
    Peter Lang
    Peter Lang
    • John Pearce
    • Director
      • Barry O'Neil
    • Writer
      • Edwin Barbour
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    Lubin thrillers

    A copy of this film (not a particularly good print and, by the looks of it, missing footage here and there) is preserved in the Desmet collection (available via the EYE website) and it is a useful reminder of how little we know about the output of the Lubin at this or indeed any period.

    Siegmund Lubin had founded his company in 1897 and, despite continual harassment from Edison, somehow managed to keep afloat until 1917 and it was ultimately a major fire (June 1914) that put him out of business rather than Edison (himself in trouble by that time). For much of the time he had been something of a one-man-band, operating from his own backyard in Philadelphia and relying on pirated material or homemade copies of films made by the larger companies.

    By 1910 however he had established his own Lubinville studios and was making really quite ambitious films. Also notable among the Lubin films in the Desmet Collection is The District Attorney's Conscience, a complex half-hour industrial thriller directed by Tefft Johnson.

    Lubin also liked to make thrillers with strongly topical settings. As early as 1907, The Unwritten Law, is a case in point, a twelve-minute dramatization of the real-life shooting of Stanford White, architect and socialite, by Harry K. Thaw. In this film, a multiple disaster film (shipwreck and earthquake), the setting is partly the great San Francisco earthquake of 1906 and makes use of newsreel footage (Lubin had brought out The San Francisco Disaster in the same year).

    There are, by my count, about twenty odd Lubin films available on the web (many of them in the Desmet collection) but it would be nice if we had still more, particularly the more complex narrative thrillers, a genre that remained rare in the US although it was beginning to become important in Europe (in France, Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands).

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    • Trivia
      During the earthquake scene, female lead Ethel Clayton was hit full in the face by a falling chandelier. Since there was no chance for a second take (the sets took four months to build), Ms. Clayton soldiered on.

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    • Release date
      • June 12, 1914 (Denmark)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Languages
      • None
      • English
    • Also known as
      • When the Earth Trembled or the Power of Love
    • Production company
      • Lubin Manufacturing Company
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    • Runtime
      42 minutes
    • Sound mix
      • Silent
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.33 : 1

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