In recent years, technology has given films of the silent era and their
creators a second life as new processes have eased their restoration and
distribution. Among the films benefitting from these developments are
the works of director Albert Capellani (1874-1931), whose oeuvre was
instrumental in the development of cinema in the early 1900s and whose
contributions rival those of D. W. Griffith. For the first time in
English, Christine Leteux's essential biography of Capellani offers a
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