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Feast and Famine

1914 American silent short drama film directed by Sydney Ayres

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 28, 2025
Entity authorityQ5439528 ↗
Source-derived summary

Feast and Famine is a 1914 American silent short drama film directed by Sydney Ayres. Starring B. Reeves Eason, William Garwood, Harry von Meter, Jack Richardson and Vivian Rich.

Editorial summary

“Feast and Famine” enters the record as 1914 American silent short drama film directed by Sydney Ayres. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Feast, Famine and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1914—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1914-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Feast, Famine and American.
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Why this record matters

“Feast and Famine” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Feast, Famine and American provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 28, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5439528. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1914.

Critical limits

Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Feast and Famine” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.