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Filmography Code: DIST: Distributor; P: Producer; D: Director; AD:Assistant Director; S: Screenwriter ; T: Titles; CAM: Cinematographer (in black and white unless otherwise indicated ); WITH: Principal Cast Members; R: Release Date; L: Length (where known); FC, Frank Capra. Miscellaneous Silent Film Work 1915 Our Wonderful Schools. DIST-P: Los Angeles Board of Education (produced with the help of D. W. Griffith's Reliance-Majestic Co.). D-S: Rob Wagner. CAM: Hugh McClung. FC may have taken part in the making of this documentary on the Los Angeles school system, partly filmed at Manual Arts High School in the spring of 1915. R:June 11, 1915. 1915—1918 While a student at Throop College of Technology in Pasadena, FC "earned a few dollars by selling 'gags' and situations for screen comedies to Mack Sennett," according to his 1941Warner Bros, publicity biography; he also may have worked as a film editor for Sennett in this period, and he assisted newsreel cameraman Roy Wiggins in photographing the Mount Wilson Observatory. 1919 The Outcasts of Poker Flat. DIST: Universal. P: P. A. Powers. D: Jack Ford. S: H. Tipton Steck, from the stories "TheOutcasts of Poker Flat" and "The Luck of Roaring Camp" by Bret Harte. CAM: John W. Brown. WITH: Harry Carey, Cullen Landis, Gloria Hope, J. Farrell MacDonald, and FC uncredited as an extra loading a steamboat. R:July 6, 1919. L:6 reels. 1919 FC reportedly was an extra in various films made in Hollywood, including another Harry Carey-Jack Ford Western at Universal. 1919 FC worked as a laborer with the Christie Film Company in Hollywood. 1920 The Pulse of Life. DIST: None. P: Tri-State Motion Picture Co. (Reno, Nevada). WITH: Peggy Lawson, W. Montgomery, Denison Standing, Frank Russell [Capra?], Sylvia Goddisart. R:April 25,1920. L: 6 reels. Individual production credits on this and the following film are unknown,but Tri-State's president was W. M.Plank, Ida May Heitmann was vice president, and FC was secretary-treasurer. It is likely that FC wrote the scripts for these films, but Plank probably directed them. 1920 The Scar of Love. DIST: None. P: Tri-State Motion Picture Co. (Reno, 75O F i I HI o «/ r a p Ii i| Nevada). WITH: Peggy Lawson. R: None. L:5 reels. For other credits, see above. The only known reference to this possibly apocryphal film was an item in Variety on January 13, 1920, stating that filming on it and The Pulse of Life had been completed. 1920 Screen Snapshots. DIST: States' rights. P: Jack Cohn, Louis Lewyn, for CBC. L: 1 reel. FC was Lewyn's assistant and editor on the first few issues of this series of shorts about life behind the scenes in the motion picture industry; he probably also did some of the directing. 1921-24 FC worked as an assistant to Waldon S. (Walt) Ball at the Ball Laboratory in San Francisco, where he helped process feature film dailies (including the dailies for the 1923 location filming of Erich von Stroheim's Greed) and newsreel footage, and also shot and edited film on assignment from various Ball customers. 1921 Scenic documentary on San Francisco (title unknown).P: Charles A. Warren et al. T: FC. R: Unknown. FC sued Warren in October 1921to collect his fifty-dollar salary. 1921 Documentary (title unknown) on the November 6—7 visit to San Francisco of the Italian warship Libia. P: The Italian Virtus Club of San Francisco. D:FC. T: FC, Giulio DeMoro.WITH: Admiral Ernesto Burzagli, officers and men of the Libia, Dorothy Valerga [Dorothy Revier], and citizens of San Francisco. R: December 3, 1921. 1921 Life's Greatest Question. DIST: CBC. P: George H. Davis, for Quality Film Prods./The Paul Gerson Pictures Corp. D-S: Harry J. Revier. CAM:Del Claussen. WITH: Roy Stewart, Louise Lovely, Dorothy Valerga [Dorothy Revier], Harry Van Meter. Eugene Burr. FC probably was AD on this film. R: December 10, 1921.L: 5 reels. 1921-22 Fulta Fisher's Boarding House. DIST: Pathe. P: G. F. Harris, David F. Supple, for Fireside Productions (San Francisco). D:FC. S: FC, Walter Montague, from the poem "The Ballad of Fisher's Boarding-House" by Rudyard Kipling.CAM: Roy Wiggins. WITH: Mildred Owens, Ethan Allen, Olaf Skavlan, Gerald Griffin, Oreste Seragnoli. R: April 2, 1922. L: 1 reel. 1921-22 The Village Blacksmith. DIST: Unknown.P: G. F. Harris, David F. Supple, for Fireside Productions. D: FC. S: FC (and Walter Montague?), from the...

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