Our series of revolutionary shorts by D.W. Griffith continues as Dorothy Bernard stars in the suspense masterpiece “The Girl and Her Trust” and the surreal “The Female of the Species,” with Claire MacDowell and Mary Pickford. Program also includes Blanche Sweet in “The Goddess of Sagebrush Gulch” (which features a screenplay by Stanner E.V. Taylor) and “The Lesser Evil,” in which Blanche must choose between death and an even worse fate!

This installment of Retroformat is dedicated to the memory of our friend David Shepard, whose lifework made our program possible.