The Yellow Girl: A pioneer in non-naturalistic, artificial settings after Aubrey Beardsley and the Art Nouveau style. Directed and designed by Edgar Keller. With Corinne Griffith, Webster Campbell. (1916, Vitagraph, c. 10 min, Piano accompaniment by Jon Mirsalis, Restored by Eastman House Film Archives from 28mm to 35mm, Print courtesy Eastman House) "The Man in the Silk Hat is funny, irresistibly charming, and without any parallel in the cinema. It is the visual autobiography of a man who died nearly sixty years ago, retrieved and restored by the daughter who never knew him. Maud Linder was a tiny baby at the time of Max's suicide, and did not know the identity of her great father until she grew up. Because he was so prolific, Max regularly drew on the incidents and scenes of his life as inspiration for his comedies. So we are able to retrace his life from the family vineyards at St. Loubes, to his adventures at college, in the theatre and finally in films...and La Belle Epoque springs back to life. Struck from original negatives, the films are bright as new, so that there is no longer any barrier to our rediscovery of this dashing, sophisticated, witty young Gascon, the most endearing of the great clowns, whom Chaplin called 'The Master.' This is comedy in its purest essence." David Robinson, London Film Festival '83