"The Boy Detective" cinematographer Billy Bitzer (1908)

1908 · Silent film

• Drama
• Crime

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Synopsis

A messenger boy overhears two crooks plotting a robbery and, disguising himself, foils them; the earliest surviving film of Robert Harron, at fourteen.

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Collection

Silent Hall of Fame, Silent Films, Feature Films

Subjects on the Internet Archive

• Robert Harron
• Billy Bitzer
• Wallace McCutcheon
• silent film
• silent era
• silent drama

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