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[[File:The Evidence of the Film poster.jpg|thumb|300px|[[Trailers Always Spoil|Posters Always Spoil]].]]

From 1910 to 1918, Edwin Thanhouser's New Rochelle, New York-based company was a prolific film studio producing more than 1,000 shorts of various genres. Though few of his movies survive, one that has is ''[[{{PAGENAME}}]]'', a short mystery in which a delivery boy is falsely accused of stealing $20,000. All hope seems lost until the boy's sister, who works as a film editor, uncovers celluloid evidence to free him -- a plot device that anticipates security cameras and eyewitness home videos by decades. Thanhouser, who co-directed with Lawrence Marston, demonstrates a command of visual storytelling that rivals D. W. Griffith's.

''{{PAGENAME}}'' was added to the [[National Film Registry]] in 2001.

[[Media:The Evidence of The Film (1913).webm|Watch the movie at Wikimedia Commons]].

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