Edgar Allen Poe (film)

Edgar Allen Poe (official title)
Film still of actor Herbert Yost (left) as Poe with Anita Hendrie and David Miles
Directed by	D. W. Griffith
Written by	D. W. Griffith Frank E. Woods
Produced by	Biograph Company New York, N.Y.
Starring	Herbert Yost Linda Arvidson
Cinematography	G. W. Bitzer
Release date	February 8, 1909 (1909-02-08)
Running time	6–7 minutes (release length 450 feet); distributed on a "split reel" with another film, A Wreath in Time[1]
Country	United States
Languages	Silent English intertitles

Edgar Allen Poe [sic] is a 1909 American silent drama film produced by the Biograph Company of New York and directed and co-written by D. W. Griffith.^[2] Herbert Yost stars in this short as the 19th-century American writer and poet Edgar Allan Poe, while Linda Arvidson portrays Poe's wife Virginia.^[3] When it was released in February 1909 and throughout its theatrical run, the film was consistently identified and advertised with Poe's middle name misspelled in its official title, using an "e" instead of the correct second "a". The short was also originally shipped to theaters on a "split reel", which was a single reel that accommodated more than one film. This 450-foot drama shared its reel with another Biograph short, the 558-foot comedy A Wreath in Time.^[1] Prints of both films survive.^[4]