Lady Helen's Escapade
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Lady Helen's Escapade is a short movie produced in 1909, directed by D. W. Griffith
. It is about the escapades of Lady Helen working as a domestic in a boarding house.
In 2004, the Library of Congress
deemed this film "significant" and preserved it in the National Film Registry
.
D. W. Griffith
David Llewelyn Wark Griffith was a premier pioneering American film director. He is best known as the director of the controversial and groundbreaking 1915 film The Birth of a Nation and the subsequent film Intolerance .Griffith's film The Birth of a Nation made pioneering use of advanced camera...
. It is about the escapades of Lady Helen working as a domestic in a boarding house.
In 2004, the Library of Congress
Library of Congress
The Library of Congress is the research library of the United States Congress, de facto national library of the United States, and the oldest federal cultural institution in the United States. Located in three buildings in Washington, D.C., it is the largest library in the world by shelf space and...
deemed this film "significant" and preserved it in the National Film Registry
National Film Registry
The National Film Registry is the United States National Film Preservation Board's selection of films for preservation in the Library of Congress. The Board, established by the National Film Preservation Act of 1988, was reauthorized by acts of Congress in 1992, 1996, 2005, and again in October 2008...
.