The Exploits of Elaine
American Cooperative Weekly (US 1917, 3 min., 35mm)
Exploits of Elaine - Episode 2 (George B. Seitz & Louis Gasnier, US 1914–15, 30 min., 35mm)
Domestic Difficulties (H.G. Fisher, US 1916, 8 min., 35mm)
The Cossack Whip (John H. Collins, US 1916, 73 min., 35mm)
We are continuing our series of A Night at the Movies 100 Years Ago with a program from 1916, featuring a newsreel, a cartoon starring two popular characters from the newspaper “funnies” of the time, an exciting episode of the most popular serial of 1916, and a feature starring Viola Dana as Darya, a ballerina in prerevolutionary Russia bent on revenge against the sadistic and despicable Czarist police chief who murdered her husband and father. A thrilling and sometimes wonderfully kinky melodrama, The Cossack Whip is one of the few surviving films of the talented director Collins, the real-life husband of Dana. All of the 35mm films in this program have been restored or preserved by the Moving Image Department of the George Eastman Museum. Live piano by Philip C. Carli.