The Lonedale Operator (1911)

Duration: 10

Genres: Educational, Short Drama Romance

Year Published: 1911

Creator: Blackhawk Films Eastin-Phelan Corp

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: Of special importance in motion picture history is this early work by famed director DW Griffith, in which he demonstrates his incredible technique as a filmmaker. With a simple plot-line Griffith brings things to a famed climax composed of 66 rapid shots.

Complete Record: Presents a D W Griffith production containing some shots of Santa Fe American-type locomotive no. 9, a unit built in the 1870's and scrapped by the Santa Fe in Topeka in 1914. A drama in which a telegraph operator wards off payroll thieves with a wrench resembling a gun while her engineer-sweetheart races a train to her rescue.

Online Copy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIQGTKSSaP8

Metadata Source:YouTube

This film is not rare.

5 users have this film:
AV Geeks Archive, Kinonik, New York Public Library, Public Domain Stuff Youtube, Visual Studies Workshop

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