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The Renunciation

1909 film by D. W. Griffith
Movie short_film Q1993201
The Renunciation
D. W. Griffith · Public Domain · Wikimedia
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Summary

The Renunciation is a short film[1]. It ranks in the top 6% of short film entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (37 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Director: D. W. Griffith[3]
  • Screenwriter: D. W. Griffith[4]
  • Genre: silent film[5], drama film[6]
  • Cast member: Mary Pickford[7], Anthony O'Sullivan[8], James Kirkwood[9], Harry Solter[10], Billy Quirk[11], Edwin August[12], Arthur V. Johnson[13], Wilfred Lucas[14], W. Chrystie Miller[15]
  • Production company: Biograph Company[16]
  • Director of photography: Billy Bitzer[17], Arthur Marvin[18]
  • Color: black-and-white[19]
  • Country of origin: United States[20]
  • Publication date: January 1, 1909[21]
  • Distributed by: Biograph Company[22]
  • Title: The Renunciation[23]
  • Duration: 11 minutes[24]
  • Copyright status: public domain[25]
  • P14449: 174347[26]
  • P14724: 4460065[27]

Why It Matters

The Renunciation has Wikipedia articles in 9 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28]

Related Entities

D. W. Griffith Mary Pickford public domain United States

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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  1. 16d ago · Rémi sim · 2026-10-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14724 → 4460065
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'da', 'en', 'fr', 'ht', 'id', 'it', 'ms', 'nl', 'no', 'pt', 'simple']
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ P14724: 4460065, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/301589595|The Renunciation (#301589595)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/8232|Garance item ("
  2. 16w ago · Yirba · 2026-06-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14449 → 174347
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/38315|batch #38315]]: MovieLens IDs (part 2)"
  3. 22w ago · Reinheitsgebot bot · 2026-05-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Production company → Biograph Company
    Genre → silent film, drama film
    Aliases → —
    Instance of → —
    + 16 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Internet archive id: silent-the-renunciation, #quickstatements; WikiFlix C3: from IA curated collection; invoked by wikiflix"
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