A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2025 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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The Empty Sleeve; or, Memories of By-Gone Days
(1909) United States of America
B&W : Split-reel / 590 feet
Directed by (unknown)

Cast: Florence Turner, Darwin Karr, Van Dyke Brooke [the parson]

The Vitagraph Company of America production; distributed by The Vitagraph Company of America. / © 22 May 1909 by The Vitagraph Company of America [H127350]. Released 29 May 1909; in a split-reel with He Couldn’t Dance, But He Learned (1909). / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Drama.

Survival status: Print exists.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 28 January 2015.

References: Film viewing : Website-AFI.

Home video: VHS.