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:
A Sage Brush Hamlet = A Sagebrush Hamlet: [incomplete]
Original title:
A Sage Brush Hamlet
Production company:
- Jesse Hampton Feature Corporation
Country of production:
us
Name of distributor:
Robertson Cole Distributing Corporation
Production Credit:
- director, Joseph J. Franz; producer, Jesse D. Hampton; scenario, K.E. Anderson; story, George Elwood Jenks; photography, Harry W. Gerstad
Cast credit:
William Desmond, Florence Gibson, Edward Piel, Frank Lanning
Description:
- First part of a Western film. The plot of the complete film is as follows: Larry Lang (William Desmond) has carried the memory of his father's killing by Claude Dutton (Edward Peil) since his youth and is determined to avenge the crime. The townspeople of the small Western border town believe Larry is "plumb locoed" because he employs a rowdy gang of cowpunchers for only a few head of cattle. Dutton is ensconced in Bottle Canyon, the neck of which is constantly guarded by his men. When Dutton's henchman Two-Gun Dan fails to capture Larry, Dutton attemps the job himself. Meanwhile, Larry's cousin Dora Lawrence (Marguerite de la Motte) arrives to make her home with Larry who is to be her guardian. Larry's men are absent, and while Mexican bandit Pedro holds Dora, Dutton searches for a large sum of money hidden in Larry's bed. Larry returns and kills Dutton, then a romance develops between Larry and Dora.
Language:
- Silent with English intertitles
Copyright Status:
Under copyright until 31 December 2020.
Copyright Owner:
- Copyright owner: Jesse Hampton Feature 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. Robertson Cole distributed this film through Exhibitors' Mutual Distributing Corporation, a company formed in 1918.
- 2. Reels one and reel four or five of five. There is no tail credit so it is difficult to determine if the safety is reel four or five of five.
- 3. Joseph J. Franz, the creator of this film, died in 1970 - under copyright until 31 December 2020.
- 4. Name of production company may also be Jesse D. Hampton Productions
- 5. Based on a story by George Elwood Jenks.
- 6. Source of subject description: American Film Institute Catalog of Feature Films 1911-1020, page 796.
- 7. The catalogue card for the nitrate indicates this was originally numbered D-0497 but the reel itself has D-57 printed on it. As well, the safety can labels for part one indicate D-0057 and part four (or five) indicate D-0497.
- 8. The film for part one starts with about 40 frames of a completely unrelated film, perhaps a newsreel about a flood, showing men wading in water and people in a small rowboat handing out what appear to be newspapers.
