Mabel Carnegie

It’s 1908, and 8-year-old Mabel doesn’t think much of flickers.

The earliest silent movies were under twenty minutes long, the images were blurry and streaked, and oh how they flickered! The stories were decidedly low-brow, crass and violent. No respectable person would be caught dead in one of those tiny, dark nickelodeons.

So how could it be that the daughter of the richest man in America might be drawn into the disreputable business of making movies?

Dive into a vibrant period portrait of New York and the early days of silent film.