War on the Plains

War on the Plains [also called Across the Plains], is a 1912 silent Western short filmed at Inceville, Santa Ynez, California. 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.[2]

War on the Plains
(aka Across the Plains)
Directed byThomas H. Ince
Produced byBison Motion Pictures,
New York Motion Picture Company
Written byWilliam Eagle Shirt
Thomas H. Ince
Ray Myers
StarringFrancis Ford
Ethel Grandin
Distributed byMotion Picture Distributors and Sales Company
Cosmopolitan Films (UK)
Release date
February 23, 1912
Running time
2 reels (20 minutes)[1]
CountryUSA
LanguageSilent with English intertitles

This short is referred to as Across the Plains in Daniel Blum's Pictorial History of Silent Films.[3] Several other films with this title were released before and after this short was initially distributed.

Cast

Preservation status

  • This film is preserved in the UCLA Film & TV archive.

References

  1. 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.
  2. War on the Plains at silentera.com
  3. Pictorial History of Silent Films, p.21 c.1953 by Daniel Blum ISBN 0-399-50667-5


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