There is a small box of silent film stills in our archive that I’ve been working to identify, and I could use some help.
I was able to identify most of the stills in our collection by recognizing an actor or referencing lists of known film still codes, but there are a handful that remain unattributed. Because so many silent films are lost, verification can be difficult. If you recognize any of these productions or actors, please reach out and let me know! (Apologies for the glare in some of the photos: many of the photos have warped, and I did not want to force them to lie flat.)
I thought these might be from The Winding Stair (1925), which features Edmund Lowe, Alma Rubens, and Warner Oland, but I’m increasingly convinced that I’m wrong. I’m fairly certain that the gentleman in the first two photos is Edmund Lowe, and the man in the last two appears to be Warner Oland. The woman in the first two photos could be Alma Rubens, but I’m not convinced. In the verified stills I’ve found from that film (below), she doesn’t have a beauty spot and her hair is different. The stylized makeup of the 1920s makes it incredibly difficult to identify actresses! The other two images here feature identical scenery elements so presumably they are from the same film, though the costumes are really all over the place!
This batch bears the same attribution as those above (White Studio, New York), but I do not know if they are from the same film. The numbers are within a pretty tight range, so it seems likely.
Two of these have production codes, but I wasn’t able to come up with a match. For what it is worth, nearly all the other photos in the box of stills were from films that came out in 1923.
