Silent film stars Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and Charlie Chaplin and director D W Griffith sign contract establishing United Artists

[From Paramount Screen Souvenirs, probably #3-9] [with added narration throughout, not part of original movie] Title card: "Mary, Doug and Charlie the world-famous 'Big Three' as they looked when breaking into the movies" / Mary Pickford in one of her earliest movies in which she is a young woman looking in a shop window, the man behind her is Lionel Barrymore / another movie with Douglas Fairbanks sliding down tree trunk / Charlie Chaplin making funny faces and exaggerated movements conducting band (scenes are not related) / Intertitle: "The three great stars together---with D W Griffith, director of "The Birth of a Nation" / D. W. Griffith seated at desk signing contract establishing United Artists in 1919, then Fairbanks signing, Chaplin and Pickford stand behind them, all shake hands, two other film industry executives with them