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The Democratic Club Clambake

No copy you can watch online. No print is known to survive. What follows is what does: the release, the cast, the story, and what the trade press said at the time.

Background of the scenario

This film, believed to be one-reel in length, was taken in October 1913 and was shown locally at Loew’s Theatre in New Rochelle. An article in The New Rochelle Pioneer, October 25, 1913, gave details: “The show at Loew’s Theatre continues to be just as good as in previous weeks. A 3-reel photoplay, entitled The Vampire has attracted thousands of people and today marks the last time that it will be shown. A special feature for Monday is the showing of the photoplay taken of the recent Democratic Club clambake, by Thanhouser....”

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Cast and crew

No cast or crew is credited in the surviving sources for this film. Bowers records the title and the release; the names did not come with them.

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More about this film

From Volume II: Filmography of Q. David Bowers’ Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, reproduced with permission and unchanged. Read the history of 1913 →

Cite as: Bowers, Q. David. Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, “The Democratic Club Clambake”. thanhouser.org/films/the-democratic-club-clambake/

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