| War on the Plains (aka Across the Plains) | |
|---|---|
 Film still, 1912 | |
| Directed by | Thomas H. Ince |
| Written by | William Eagle Shirt Thomas H. Ince Ray Myers |
| Produced by | Bison Motion Pictures, New York Motion Picture Company |
| Starring | Francis Ford Ethel Grandin |
| Distributed by | Motion Picture Distributors and Sales Company Cosmopolitan Films (UK) |
| Release date |
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| Running time | 2 reels (20 minutes) |
| Country | United States |
| Languages | Silent English intertitles |
War on the Plains, also called Across the Plains, is a 1912 American silent short Western film directed by Thomas H. Ince and starring Francis Ford, Ethel Grandin and Ray Myers. It was produced by Bison Motion Pictures, a subsidiary of the New York Motion Picture Company. The film was made at Inceville, Santa Ynez, California.
This short is referred to as Across the Plains in Daniel Blum's Pictorial History of Silent Films. Several other films with this title were released before and after this short was initially distributed.
Cast
- Francis Ford as Drake, a Treacherous Prospector
- Ethel Grandin as Ethel, the Wagon Captain's Daughter
- Ray Myers as A Young Emigrant
- Howard Davies as A Prospector
- William Eagle Shirt as Indian
- J. Barney Sherry as Frontiersman
- Art Acord as Frontiersman
- Clayton Monroe Teters as Indian (unbilled)
Preservation status
This film is preserved in the UCLA Film & TV archive.
References
- Kawin, Bruce F. How Movies Work. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1987, pp. 46–47. According to this reference, a 1000-foot theatrical reel of film in the silent era was projected at a "standard" speed of 16 frames per second, considerably slower than the 24 frames in the sound era. A full silent reel therefore had a maximum running time of 15 minutes. Most reels, however, were not filled to their maximum capacity.
- War on the Plains at silentera.com
- Pictorial History of Silent Films, p.21 c.1953 by Daniel Blum ISBN 0-399-50667-5
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