Al Jennings, Beatriz Michelena, Bill Tilghman, Clara Bow, Mabel Normand, Richard Dix, Tom Mix. Special features include audio commentary. Accompanying booklet includes program notes by Scott Simmon.
Contents:
(21 min.). We can take it (1912) (6 min.) -- The sergeant (1910) (16 min.) -- Salomy Jane (1914) (87 min.) -- Sunshine gatherers (1921) (10 min.) -- Deschutes driftwood (1916) (10 min.) -- The "promised land" barred to "hoboes" (1936) (2 min.) -- Last of the line (1914) (26 min.) -- The Indian-detour (1914) (16 min.) -- Native Americans in newsreels (1921-1938) (5 min.) -- We can take it (1935) (21 min.). (8 min.). The golden west (1910) (16 min.) -- Life on the Circle Ranch in California (1912) (12 min.) -- Broncho Billy and the schoolmistress (1912) (14 min.) -- How the cowboy makes his lariat (1917) (3 min.) -- Mexican filibusters (1911) (16 min.) -- The better man (1912) (12 min.) -- Ammunition smuggling on the Mexican border (1914) (41 min.) -- Lake Tahoe, land of the sky (1916) (6 min.) -- Mantrap (1926) (71 min.) -- The golden west (1938) (8 min.). (22 min.). The west in promotion travelogues (1918) (64 min.) -- From Passing of the Oklahoma outlaw (1915) (13 min.) -- The girl ranchers (1913) (14 min.) -- Legal advice (1916) (13 min.) -- From Womanhandled (1925) (55 min.) -- Beauty spots in America: Castle Hot Springs, Arizona (1916) (6 min.) -- Romance of water (1931) (10 min.) -- A new miracle in the desert (1935) (1 min.) -- The west in promotion travelogues (1898-1920) (22 min.).
Summary:
Celebrated is the dynamic, gender-bending, ethnically diverse West that flourished in early movies. Presented is the American West as it was recorded and imagined in the first decades of motion pictures. "Brings together 40 silent and early sound films--narrative shorts and features, documentaries, promotional films, newsreel stories, and travelogues--showcasing the American West as it was recorded and imagined from 1898 to 1938"--Booklet, p. viii.
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