The New York Hat (1912)

Director	D.W. Griffith
Producer	Biograph Co.; restored version by Blackhawk Films
Contributors	Story by Anita Loos; camera G.W. Bitzer; starring Mary Pickford, Lionel Barrymore, Lillian Gish
Length	19 min
B&W/Color	b&w
UO Library Catalog description:	Romantic melodrama about a young village minister who becomes the subject of scandalous gossip when he purchases an expensive New York hat for a pretty but poor young girl at the request of the girl’s dying mother.
Call #	FILM Ma176
Genre	feature
Rare	yes
Online	yes; YouTube
Copyright status	public domain
Physical condition	good
Oregon-related	no

Notes:

Originally released in 35 mm. In the Mary Pickford film collection, Library of Congress. This is a restored version released by Blackhawk Films of Davenport, IA. D.W. Griffith is one of the early American film pioneers, famous for Birth of a Nation and his innovations in narrative and cinematography.