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 Declaration of Independence
(1924) United States of America
B&W : [?] Two or Three? reels
Directed by Kenneth S. Webb

Cast: J. Moy Bennett [Benjamin Franklin], Frederick J. Spender [Thomas Jefferson], Gordon Standing [John Dickinson], Douglass Dumbrille [Thomas Paine], John Newton (Jack Newton) [Samuel Adams], Warner Richmond [John Hancock], John Dunton [Charles Carroll], Henry W. Pemberton [the Tory], Allen Lee [Richard Henry Lee], W. Wallace Jones (Wallace Jones) [Caesar Rodney]

Chronicles of America Pictures production for Yale University Press; distributed by Pathé Exchange, Incorporated. / Scenario by William Basil Courtney, from the book The Eve of Revolution by Carl Becker. / Released 15 June 1924. / [?] Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or 16mm spherical 1.33:1 format? Color-tinted. / The tenth film in the Yale University Press “The Chronicles of America” series.

Drama: Historical.

Survival status: Print exists in the Yale University film archive.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 28 October 2022.

References: Pitts-Hollywood p. 313 : Website-IMDb.