CREDITS
Production
Writer / Producer / Editor / Narrator / Animator / Graphics / Pencil Drawings - Cory McAbee
Soundtrack
Music / Sound Design - Cory McAbee
Mixing Engineer - Vincent Smaldone
Mixing Engineer - Nikki Kroll
Mixed at The Institute of Mechanical Surround . Lancaster, PA
STARRING
Abraham Lincoln - Joseph Henabery . Walter Huston
Mary Todd Lincoln - Alberta Lee . Kay Hammon . Alice Davenport
Willie Todd Lincoln - Georgie Stone . Chandler House . The Great Gabbo . Aleksey Romanov
Robert Lincoln - Robert Harron
Henry Rathbone – unidentified
Clara Harris - Loretta Blake . unidentified
John Wilkes Booth - Ian Keith . Raoul Walsh
Lewis Powell - Himself . Lon Chaney . Walter Huston
George Atzerodt - J. Frank Burke
David Harold - Ivor Novello
Mary Surratt – unidentified
Elmer E. Ellsworth - Douglas Fairbanks
Ellsworth’s Mother - Mae Marsh
Ellsworth’s Father - Jimmie Eagle
Dr. Brown - John Barrymore
Dr. Alexander - Brandon Hurst
The Undertaker - Charles Lane
Secretary Hayes - Al W Filson
Andrew Johnson - Himself
Eliza McCardle Johnson - Asta Nielsen
Ulysses S. Grant - Donald Crisp
Theodore Roosevelt - Himself
William Seward - W Chrystie Miller
Laura Keene - Olga Grey . Clara Williams
Laura Keene’s Ex-husband - James Dowling
Young George Washington -Jackie Coogan
George Washington’s Father - Frank Losee
Seward’s Nurse - Wallace Reid
Prometheus - Eugen Sandow
The Cattle Thief - Tiny Stanford
Unusual-looking Priest - Nigel De Brulier
Edwin Booth - J. Frank Burke . Johnston Forbes-Robertson
Junius Brutus Boothe - Amleto Novelli
“Shook His Mother” - Harry E. Humphrey
Narrator - Cory McAbee
Cameo Appearances
Lillian Gish . Elmer Clifton . Mary Philbin . Louise Brooks . Henry B. Walthall . Josephine Crowell . Maxfield Stanley . Frank E. Powell . Castleton Knight . Pola Negri . Helen Gardner . Edna Purviance . Lee Beggs . Charles West . Carl Formes . William S. Hart . Paavo Nurmi . Luke the Dog
PUBLIC DOMAIN films and audio recordings were made available by the Library of Congress and Internet Archives
Film Clips Include
Trial Marriages (1907)
Co: Biograph Co.
Camera: Billy Bitzer
Taming of the Shrew (1908)
Co: Biograph Co.
Director: D. W. Griffith
Camera: Billy Bitzer
Edgar Allen Poe (1909)
Co: Biograph
Director: D. W. Griffith
Camera: Billy Bitzer
The Curtain Pole (1909)
Director: D. W. Griffith
Camera: Billy Bitzer
The Country Doctor (1909)
Co: Biograph Co.
Director: D. W. Griffith
Camera: Billy Bitzer
Through the Breakers (1909)
Co: Biograph
Director: D. W. Griffith
Camera: Billy Bitzer
In The Border States (1910)
Director: D. W. Griffith
Camera: Billy Bitzer
An Indian Summer (1912)
Biograph Co.
Director: D. W. Griffith
Camera: G. W. Bitzer
The Birth of a Nation (1915)
Comany: D. W. Griffith Corp.
Director: D. W. Griffith
Camera: G. W. Bitzer
Ghosts (1915)
Co: D. W. Griffith
Director: George Nicholls Jr.
Intalerance (1916)
Co: D. W. Griffith
Director: D. W. Griffith
Camera: Billy Bitzer
Orphans In The Storm (1921)
Co: D. W. Griffith
Director: D. W. Griffith
Camera: Billy Bitzer
Abraham Lincoln (1930)
Co: Feature Productions
Director: D. W. Griffith
Camera: Karl Struss
Band Drill (1894)
Co: Thomas A. Edison, Inc.
Camera: William Heise
Carmencita (1894)
Co: Edison Manufacturing Co.
Camera: William Heise
Princess Ali (of Barnum and Bailey’s Circus) (1896)
Co: Edison Manufacturing Co.
Camera: William Heise
Amy Muller (1896)
Co: Thomas A. Edison, Inc.
Title: Leander Sister (1897)
Co: Thomas A. Edison, Inc.
Cupid and Psych (1897)
Thomas Edison Inc.
Camera: Fredrick Blechynden
Buffalo Police Parade (1897)
Co: Thomas A. Edison, Inc.
Camera: William Heise
War Correspondents (1898)
Co: Thomas Edison Inc
Camera: William Daly Paley
Ella Lola, A La Trilby (1898)
Co: Thomas A. Edison, Inc.
Director: James H. White
Camera: William Heise
Turkish Dance, Ella Lola (1898)
Co: Thomas A. Edison, Inc
Native Daughters (1898)
Co: Thomas A. Edison Inc
Camera: Fredrick Blechynden
Going Through the Tunnel (1898)
Thomas Edison Inc.
Camera: Fredrick Blechynden
Love and War (1899)
Thomas Edison Inc.
Mesmerist and Country Couple (1899)
Co: Thomas A. Edison Inc
Camera: Albert Edward Smith
General Lee’s Procession, Havana (1899)
Thomas Edison Inc.
Admiral Dewey Leading Land Parade, no. 2 (1899)
Thomas Edison Inc.
Panorama of Orphans’ Home, Galveston (1900)
Co: Thomas A. Edison, Inc.
Taking President McKinley’s Body From Train at Canton, Ohio (1901)
Co: Thomas Edison Inc.
President McKinley’s Funeral Cortege at Washington, D.C. (1901)
Thomas Edison Inc.
Audience and McKinly’s Speech, Pan-American Exposition (1901)
Co: Thomas Edison Inc.
New York Ghetto Fish Market (1903)
Thomas Edison Inc.
Camera: James Blair Smith
Buster’s Joke On Papa (1903)
Co: Thomas Edison Inc
A Romance of the Rails (1903)
Co: Thomas Edison Inc.
Camera: Edwin S. Porter
Easter Sunday, Atlantic City Boardwalk (1904)
Thomas Edison Inc.
Military Camp at Tampa, taken from Train (1898)
Thomas Edison Inc.
Camera: William Daly Paley
Fast Mail, Northern Pacific Rail Road (1897)
Thomas Edison Inc.
Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
Camera: Fredrick Blechynden
Arrest in Chinatown, SF, CA (1897)
Thomas A. Edison Inc.
Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
Sandow (1896)
American Mutoscope Company Production
Empire State Express (1896)
American Mutoscope Company Production
Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
William Kennedy-Laurie Dickson
Title: Forgère (1899)
Co: American Mutoscope & Biograph Co.
A Nymph of the Waves (1900)
Co: American Mutoscope & Biograph Co.
Karina (1902)
Co: American Mutoscope & Biograph Co.
Camera: Robert K. Bonine
A Tough Dance (1902)
Co: American Mutoscope & Biograph Co.
Camera: Robert K. Bonine
Birth of the Pearl (1903)
Co: American Mutoscope and Biograph Co.
Camera: F. S. Armitage
Dance, Franchonetti Sisters (1903)
Co: American Mutoscope & Biograph Co.
A Wake in Hell’s Kitchen (1903)
Co: American Mutoscope and Biograph Co.
Camera: Arthur W. Marvin
Funeral of Hiram Cronk (1905)
American Mutoscope Company Production
Camera: Billy Bitzer
At the Beach and other Seaside Scenes (1896)
Co: La Société Lumière
Director: Lumière Brothers
Duel au Pistolet (1897)
Co: La Société Lumière
Director: Lumière Brothers
Lourdes, Procession, 1 (1897)
Co: La Société Lumière
Director: Lumière Brothers
24rg Alpine Chasseur: Boxing Lesson (1897)
Co: La Société Lumière
Director: Lumière Brothers
Annamite Children Collecting Cash in Front of the Ladies Pagoda (1899)
Co: La Société Lumière
Director: Lumière Brothers
Legend of a Ghost (1908)
Company: Pathé frères
Director: Segundo de Chomón
The Rival Brother’s Patriotism (1911)
Co: Pathé Frères
Director: Leopold Wharton
The First Camp in the Ranges (1923)
Co: Pathé Frères
The Structure of the Earth: Volcanoes (1923)
Company: Pathé Science Series
Ford Animated Weekly (1916)
Co: Ford Motor Company
Hawaiian Island (1917)
Co: Ford Motor Company
Funeral of Admiral George Dewey, Washington, D.C. (1917)
Company: Ford Motor Company
Ford Eagle Boat (1918)
Co: Ford Motor Company
Children Honor John Burroughs (1918)
Co: Ford Motor Company
Rural America (1919)
Co: Ford Motor Company
Animals / Ford Educational Weekley: Animal Antics (1919)
Co: Ford Motor Company
Eventide / The Beaver / Canadian Porcupine (1919)
Company: Ford Motor Company
Cutting Up (Meat Packing)/Electricity Comes to Home and Farm (1919)
Company: Ford Motor Company
Scenes in the South West United States (1920)
Co: Ford Motor Company – Ford Motion Picture Laboratories
Cut and Dried /Lumbering / Cherry Blossom Time in Japan (1920)
Co: Ford Motor Company
Washinton DC (1921)
Co: Ford Motor Company
Paving The Way To Success (1921)
Company: Ford Motor Company
The Presidents of the United States and Their Times (1921)
Co: Ford Motor Company
Live and Let Live (1922)
Co: Ford Motor Company
The Benefactor (Life of Edison Part 1) (1923)
Co: Ford Motor Company
Niagara Falls In Winter (1925)
Company: Ford Motor Company
Tractor Demonstrations (1925)
Co: Ford Motor Company
The Signal Tower (1924)
Co: Universal Pictures
Director: Clarence Brown
Camera: Ben F. Renolds
The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
Co: Universal Pictures
Director: Rupert Julian
Camera: Charles van Enger
On Your Toes (1927)
Co: Universal Pictures
Director: Fred Newmeyer
The Man Who Laughs (1928)
Co: Universal Pictures
Director: Pail Leni
Camera: Gilbert Warrenton
The Bond (1918)
Director: Charlie Chaplin
A Dog’s Life (1918)
Director: Charlie Chaplin
Camera: Roland Totheroh
Caught In The Rain (1914)
Co: Keystone Studios
Director: Charlie Chaplin
Camera: Frank D. Williams
Fatty and Mable Adrift (1916)
Co: Keystone Studios
Director: Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle
The Bargain (1914)
Co: Paramont Pictures Corp.
Director: Reginald Barker
Camera: Joseph H. August – Robert Newhard
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920)
Co: Paramount Pictures
Director: John S. Robertson
Camera: Roy F. Overbaugh
The Bank Robbery (1908)
Co: Oklahoma Natural Mutoscene Co.
Director: William Mathew Tilghman
Camera: James B. Kent
Eyes of the Mummy (1922)
Co: PAGU
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Burstup Holmes Murder Case (1913)
Co: Solax Films Corp
Director: Alice Guy-Blaché
The Big Swallow (1901)
Director: James Williamson
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927)
Co: Gainstone Pictures
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Camera: Gaetano di Ventimiglia
The Hands of Orlac (1924)
Co: Pan-Film
Director: Robert Wiene
Camera: Günther Krampf – Hans Androschin
The Iron Mask (1929)
Co: The Elton Corp.
Director: Alan Dwan
Camera: Henry Sharp
Prelude (1927)
Director: Castleton Knight
Fall of the House of Usher (1928)
Co: Les Films Jean Epstein
Director: Jean Epstein
Camera: Georges Lucas - Jean Lucas
The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906)
Director: Charles Tait
Just Pals (1920)
Co: Fox Film Corp.
Director: John Ford
Camera: George Schneiderman
De Egyptenaar (1913)
Co: Vitagraph Company of America
Director: Larry Semon
Madame DuBarry (1919)
Co: UFA
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Camera: Theodor Sparkuhl - Kurt Waschneck
Hoorn (1919)
Co: Haghe Film
Director: Willy Mullens
Camera: Willy Mullens
Cleopatra (1912)
Co: Helen Gardner
Director: Charles L. Gaskill
Camera: Lucien Tainguy
The Magic Cloak of Oz (1914)
Co: Oz Productions
Director: J. Farrell MacDonald
Camera: James A. Crosby
Hold My Baby (1925)
Company: Hal Roach
Director: James W. Horne
Oliver Twist (1922)
Co: Jackie Coogan Productions
Director: Frank Lloyd
Camera: Glen MacWilliams & Robert Martin
Pandora’s Box (1929)
Co: Nero-Film A.G.
Director: G. W. Pabst
Camera: Günther Krampf
Falling Leaves (1912)
Co: Solax Studios
Director: Alice Guy Blache
The Woman Always Pays (1912)
Co: Kosmorama
Director: Urban Gad
Camera: Alfred Lind
Great Gabbo (1929)
Co: James Cruze Prod.
Director: James Cruze
Camera: Ira H. Morgan
The General (1926)
Co: United Artists
Director: Buster Keaton – Clyde Bruckman
Camera: Devereaux Jennings - Bert Haines
Tih Minh (1918)
Co: Société des Etablissments L. Gaumont
Director: Louis Feuillade
The Egyptian Mummy (1914)
Company: Vitagraph studios
Director: Lee Beggs
Bruson Jones Travelogue: Lure of the West (1927)
Smithsonian Institution
Camera: R. Bryson Jones
The Volcano Kilauea (1918)
William Horsley Co.
Camera: Ray J. Baker
Development of a Salamander (1920)
Co: Yale University, Department of Biology
Roosevelt, Friend of the Birds (1915)
Roosevelt Memorial Association Film Library
Camera: Herbert K. Job
Song Birds as Neighbors (1920)
Company: National Audubon Society for the Protection of Wild Animals
Camera: William L. Finley – Irene Finley
How the Fires of Our Bodies Are Fed: A study of the Digestive Process (1926)
Co: Carpenter-Golden Laboatories
Chrysanthemum Show Opens At Garfield Park (1915)
Co: The Mutual Weekly
The Einstein Theory of Relativity (1923)
Director: Edwin Miles Fadman
Capital Stirred by Biggest Hooch Raid (1923)
News Reel
No Info
Kinogram Newsreel (1924)
News Reel
No Info
War as it Really Is – Reel 6 (1916)
Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
Paper Fragments #7 (1908)
Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
Vitagraph Paper Print Fragments #8 (1908)
Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
No Information Available
• War as it Really Is – Reel 6 (1916)
• San Francisco Iron Workers Strike (1917)
• Ice Harvest, Pocono Manor (1919)
• Gift of Life (1920)
• General Health Habits (1928)
Music and Audio Samples
When Buddha Smiles(1921)
Performer: Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra
Composer: Nacio Herb Brown – George Gershwin
Ka-Lu-A (1921)
Performer: Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra
Composer: Jerome Kern
Kitettek A Holttestet Az Udvarra (1919)
Hungarian Funeral Song -They Put the Corpse Out in the Yard
Performer: Sió Aldár és Zenekara
Composer: Pista Dankó
New River Train (1925)
Performers: Kelly Harrell
Siegfried’s Funeral March (1913)
Performer: Vessella’s Italian Band
Composer: Richard Wagner
Sioux Flute Serenade (1924)
Performers: Victor Concert Orchestra
Composer: Charles Sanford Skilton
Rock of Ages (1906)
Performers: Lyric Quartet
Composer: Dudley Buck
California, Here I Come (1924)
Performers: Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra
Composer: Joseph Meyer
Song of a Thousand Years (1914)
Performers: Lambert Murphy & Raymond Dixon
Composer: Henry Clay Work
Gems From the Red Mill (1910)
Performers: Victor Light Opera Company
Composer: Victor Herbert
Roll Jordan Roll (1909)
Performers: J. A. Myer/Garfield Alfred King/Walker Noah Ryder / Wesley John Work
Berliner Gram-O-Phone Company
Ty-Tee (1921)
Performer: Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra
Composer: Bibo
I Don’t want To Play In Your Yard (1895)
Performers: George J. Gaskin
Composer: Henry W. Petrie
Buck Fanshaw’s Funeral (1913) “Shook His Mother”
Actor: Harry E. Humphrey
Author: Mark Twain
Abraham Lincoln (1930) Movie Audio
Produced by United Artist
Directed by D. W. Griffith
PHOTOGRAPHERS
Photographer: Alexander Gardner
Year: 1865
Subject: Powell in Overcoat and hat
Photographer: Samuel Montague Fassett
Year: 1865
Subject: Chicago Arch
Photographer: E & H. T. Anthony and Co.
Year:
Subject: Mary
Photographer: Joseph Ward
Year:
Subject: Mary
Photographer: George W. Tomlinson
Year:
Subject: Mary
Photographer: Mathew Brady
Year: 1861
Subject: Mary
Photographer: G. W. Tomlinson
Year:
Subject: Mary
Family Portraits
H A Thomas . Andrew O’Connor . F B Carpenter . John Chester Buttre . Ed Valois . Currier & Ives . S. B. Waugh
Deceased Lincoln Drawings
A. Brett & Co. . H H Lloyd and Co.
Information on photographers and illustrators is still being researched and collected. Check back soon for more details.