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Behrens Family Gathering

Date produced: 1925

Filmmaker(s):

Leonard Frederick Behrens

Description:

"Scenes of a Behrens family gathering. Various family members are filmed as they walk down a set of steps leading from the front door of a large house. They stand around talking to each other on the driveway. One of the men, holds hands with a young boy and they dance around in a circle" (NWFA Online Database).


Speed Merchant, The

Date produced: 1925

Filmmaker(s):

Ben Carleton


Mag the Hag

Date produced: 1925

Filmmaker(s):

Hiram Percy Maxim

Description:

"Mag the Hag" is a 1925 amateur fiction film shot and edited by Hiram Percy Maxim (1869-1936), founder of the Amateur Cinema League. It is one of the earliest amateur fiction films shot on 16mm in Northeast Historic Film's collections. It features Maxim's daughter, Percy Maxim Lee, in the lead role of Percy Proudfoot. oldfilm.org


Saharan Trails 1925-1926

Date produced: 1925

Filmmaker(s):

Bradley Tyrrel

Description:

"Edited film shot during the Franco-American Expedition to Algeria which was sponsored jointly by the Logan Museum of Anthropology, Beloit College, and the Algerian government. Led by Alonzo Pond, Byron Khun de Prorok, and Maurice Reygasse, the expedition traveled from Biskra to Tamanrasset and back in three specially constructed Renault vehicles in October and November of 1925. The expedition excavated both prehistoric and ancient Sahara habitations and observed various Hoggar Tuaregs. Film features excavations on the ancient tombs near Tamanrasset (including the tomb of Queen Tin-Hinan, ancestral mother of the Tuaregs), French colonial outposts, encounters with Tuareg chiefs, and a wrestling match, a slave tent, and head shaving in a Tuareg camp," Human Studies Film Archives.


Passion’s Toll

Date produced: 1925

Filmmaker(s):

S. Winston Childs

Description:

An ailing man sends his daughter to investigate a failing gold mine. With the assistance of a love interest she meets along the way, the woman fights the corruption and danger she encounters at the mine.


Love by Proxy

Date produced: 1925

Description:

"The Motion Picture Club of the Oranges was formed in 1924 and, after a year's work, produced a two-reel picture, 'Love by Proxy'. which attracted considerable attention in amateur circles. This was made on 16 millimiter film. Then the club made a two-reel 35 millimiter production, 'Hey-Hey!'." Photoplay, Jun. 1928, 66-7.


Hey-Hey!

Date produced: 1925

Description:

"The Motion Picture Club of the Oranges was formed in 1924 and, after a year's work, produced a two-reel picture, 'Love by Proxy'. which attracted considerable attention in amateur circles. This was made on 16 millimiter film. Then the club made a two-reel 35 millimiter production, 'Hey-Hey!'." Photoplay, Jun. 1928, 66-7.


Great Perham Jewel Robbery, The

Date produced: 1926

Filmmaker(s):

Bernard Kemper

Description:

"A short amateur narrative, featuring locals in cameo roles, about a husband who tries to teach his wife a lesson by staging a fake robbery." filmpreservation.org


Local Events as They Happen

Date produced: 1926

Filmmaker(s):

Ernest Maynard

Description:

"Local events in Preston - the Mayor's procession; Christmas shopping; pot fair; Royal Infirmary rag; egg rolling in Avenham Park; dog show; and a horse fair" (NWFA Online Database).


Deerslayers, The

Date produced: 1926

Filmmaker(s):

Thomas Archibald (Archie) Stewart

Description:

"Structured around a hunting trip to Maine made by Archie Stewart and Howard Kendall. The two men travel to Perry, Maine, from New York state by train, then drive a car to a lake where they transfer their luggage to a motor boat on Grand Lake Stream and ride through heavy fog on rough water to West Grand Lake. They then carry a canoe to Lower Sysladobsis Lake, load the canoe with their rifles and supplies, and paddle off. After reaching their camp along the lake's shore, they check their rifles and eat before hunting." oldfilm.org


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