Fonds/collection:
DAWSON CITY MUSEUM & HISTORICAL SOCIETY
General access conditions for collection
Reproduction access:
- No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions
Remarks:
- 1. Material was received from Dawson City in 2 shipments - 506 reels in 1978 and 26 reels in 1980. Of these 389 reels, primarily of American fiction, were transferred to Library of Congress for conversion. Reference copies of some of these reels were returned to NFTSA.
Accession number:
1979-0191
Title:
The Bludgeon : [incomplete]
Original title:
The Bludgeon
Production company:
- Equitable Motion Pictures Corporation
Country of production:
us
Name of distributor:
World Film Corporation
Production Credit:
- director, Webster Cullison
Cast credit:
John Dunn, Kathryn Osterman, Katherine Lee, Clara Whipple, Frank Beamish, Roy Applegate
Description:
- A chemist experiments in his lower class home while wife Irene and daughter Rose sit outside on the porch. Cut to social parasite, Mrs. Wharton, and her accomplices playing cards. The chemist receives an offer of $50,000 for his new formula. The family makes plans to purchase a better house and does so from Van Dusen, the real estate agent.
Language:
- Silent with English titles
Copyright Status:
Copyright expired.
Copyright Owner:
- Original copyright owner: Equitable Motion Pictures Corporation.
Restrictions on Consultation:
~No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions
Donor Restrictions:
Use requires credit be given to the Dawson City Museum and Historical Society Collection, National Archives of Canada.
Notes:
- 1. Copyright: Equitable Motion Pictures Corp. 6 Oct. 1915, LU6644.
- 2. Source of description: screening report and CDS research notes.
- 3. Research notes are available.
- 4. Based on a play by Paul Armstrong.
- 5. Part 1 of 5 only.
- 6. Webster Cullison, the creator of this film, died in 1938 - copyright expired.
