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The Voice of the Violin is a 1909 short drama film directed by D. W. Griffith. It is preserved from a paper print at the Library of Congress and a 35 mm print at the George Eastman Museum. Arthur V. Johnson is a musician, who makes a living with classes of violin. He and his student Marion Leonard like each other a lot, but she rejects him for being too poor for her. He then decides to join a communist group and fight for equality of all. Right away, he draws a lot to plant the next bomb in a rich man's house. With the plot under way, he realizes that this is the home of his love interest, and he desperately tries to prevent the bomb from exploding.