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So Near, Yet So Far
(1912) American
B&W : Short film
Directed by D.W. Griffith

Cast: Mary Pickford, Robert Harron, Elmer Booth, Lionel Barrymore, Antonio Moreno, Charles H. Mailes, Walter Miller [Howard], Harry Carey, Claire McDowell, Courtenay Foote, Adolph Lestina, W. Christy Cabanne (William Christy Cabanne), W.C. Robinson, J. Waltham, Dorothy Gish, Florence Geneva, L.M. Wells, Henry B. Walthall, Gus Pixley, Lillian Gish

Biograph Company production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Released 30 September 1912. / [?] Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format?

[?] Drama?

Survival status: Prints exist in the Museum of Modern Art film archive [35mm nitrate camera negative]; and in the Mary Pickford Institute for Film Education film collection [35mm duplicate negative, 35mm duplicate positive].

Current rights holder: Public domain.

Listing updated: 15 October 2011.

References: Barry-Griffith p. 43; Eyman-Pickford p. 327; Spehr-American p. 3 : Website-Legacy; Website-Pickford.