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Released
1912 · FILM

The Sunbeam

A RAY OF HOPE IN THE TENEMENTS OF AN AMERICAN CITY

Directed by
Color
Black & White
Runtime
15 min
DramaComedy

Synopsis

Set in a tenement building, the story follows a lonely, confirmed bachelor who lives in a room directly across the hall from a stern, unmarried woman. The two are frequently disturbed by children who run wild through the corridors, playing pranks on them. Their lives are changed when a young girl from an upper floor, now orphaned, brings them together and begins to lift the gloom from their lives.

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Principal cast & crew: 12

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

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This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Shot by G W Bitzer

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