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The School Teacher and the Waif
(1912) United States of America
B&W : Short film
Directed by D.W. Griffith

Cast: Mary Pickford

Biograph Company production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Released 27 June 1912. / [?] Biograph 35mm spherical format; released in Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format?

Comedy-Drama.

Survival status: Prints exist in the Mary Pickford Institute for Film Education film collection [35mm duplicate negative]; and in the Library of Congress film archive [16mm preservation reduction positive].

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 11 May 2018.

References: Barry-Griffith p. 43; Eyman-Pickford pp. 61, 327; Spehr-American p. 3 : Website-Legacy; Website-Pickford.

Home video: DVD.