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The Madcap
(1916) United States of America
B&W : Feature film
Directed by William C. Dowlan

Cast: Flora Parker de Haven [Flora Fairbanks], Vera Doria [Countess Olga Tcherny], Richard Sterling [John Markham]

The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated, production; distributed by The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated [Red Feather Photoplays]. / Scenario by Leonora Ainsworth, from a book by George Gibbs. / © 18 May 1916 by The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated [MP8319]. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Dawson City recovery film numbers 103 (reel 2) and 479 (reel 5).

Comedy: Romance.

Survival status: Prints exist in the Library of Congress film archive (Public Archives of Canada/Dawson City collection) [fragmentary 35mm fine-grain duplicate negative (reels 2 and 5, 1480 feet, [reel 2] duplicated 1979, FPE 4626, [reel 5] duplicated 1983, FPE 4627), fragmentary 35mm fine-grain reference positive (reels 2 and 5, 1480 feet, [reel 2] duplicated 1979, FEB 9120, [reel 5] duplicated 1983, FEB 9121)].

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 13 April 2010.

References: Hirschhorn-Universal p. 23 : Website-LoC.

 
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