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Film, Video [The girl from Montana--excerpts]

Digital viewing copy

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Title

  • [The girl from Montana--excerpts]

Summary

  • The daughter of a rancher and a cowboy fall in love. An Easterner, a rival for the girl's affection, is rebuffed the girl. Angry and vengeful, he steals the father's horse, persuading the rancher that the cowboy is the horse thief. A mob of townfolk ride to the cowboy's place and find the stolen horse, left there by the embittered Easterner. The mob seizes the cowboy and take him to be hanged. The stable hand from whom the horse was stolen, finds the girl and tells her that the cowboy is in danger. She rides like the wind to save him, shooting through the rope in the nick of time. The cowboy drops to the ground and escapes while the girl holds the mob at bay. They ride to the next town, followed by the mob. Again she holds the mob long enough to be married by the local clergyman. The father is persuaded that his new son-in-law is innocent and the mob goes off in pursuit of the real horse thieves who are captured. The girl, her husband and her father parade through the town, followed by the mob and the horse thieves.

Names

  • Anderson, Gilbert M., 1880-1971, film director
  • Selig, William N., film producer, copyright claimant
  • Perry, Pansy, 1887-1952, actor
  • Hough, Sarah Norcross, composer
  • Simpson, Andrew, 1967- conductor
  • Balance Campaign (Musical group), musician
  • Library of Congress. National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, contributor
  • Selig Polyscope Company, production company
  • Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • [2023]

Headings

  • -  Cowboys--Montana
  • -  Cowgirls--Montana
  • -  Ranchers--Montana
  • -  Lynching--Montana
  • -  Rescues--Montana

Genre

  • Western films
  • Film excerpts
  • Fiction films

Notes

  • -  LC also holds additional physical components and a silent digital viewing copy; accessible online via the Library of Congress on-site by appointment in the Moving Image Research Center. All components are in the Paper Print Collection.
  • -  Originally 35 mm length of film was 900 ft.
  • -  LC copy is very incomplete. The excerpts appear to be more or less in order, but it is difficult to follow the plot. Interior titles and end titles are lacking.
  • -  Sources vary as to the location of filming. Some sources say it was photographed in Golden, Colorado. Other sources say that it was photographed in California due to the probability of inclement weather in Colorado in February and March. According to The billboard 1903-03-16, p. 112 "The scene is laid in the Rocky Mountains, and the pictures are taken on the spot".
  • -  Sources used: Niver, R. Early motion pictures, p. 119; AFI catalog, film beginnings, 1893-1910, p. 410; Selig Polyscope Company catalog, 1907, No. 52, The Girl From Montana viewed November 14, 2024 via Rutgers University Library WWW site; Anderson, R. "The Role of the Western Film Genre in Industry Competition, 1907-1911" in the Journal of the University Film Association, 1979 (v. 31, no. 2), p. 22 viewed November 14, 2024 via JSTOR; program notes for The Magical Camera: Early Silent Films from the Library of Congress With New Music by Catholic University Composers in NAVCC acquisition file, Paper Print Collection (films with added soundtracks).
  • -  Pansy Perry.
  • -  Music performed by Balance Campaign: Amirhossein Norouznasseri (violin), Emory Hensley (percussion), Elizabeth G. Hill (piano), Janice Murphy (clarinets), Meghan Shanley Alger (flutes), Erin Snedecor (cello).
  • -  Guest conductor, Andrew Earle Simpson.
  • -  Filmed between February 16, 1907 and March 14, 1907 possibly in Golden, Colorado.
  • -  Copyright March 14, 1907 copyright notice on film
  • -  Early motion pictures : the Paper Print Collection in the Library of Congress / by Kemp R. Niver. Library of Congress. 1985.

Medium

  • 1 video file (digital) (approximately 2 min.) : sd., b&w.

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2024600563

Online Format

  • image
  • video

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Chicago citation style:

Anderson, Gilbert M., Film Director, William N Selig, Pansy Perry, Andrew Simpson, Musician Balance Campaign, Contributor Library Of Congress. National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, and Paper Print Collection. The girl from Montana--excerpts. composeds by Hough, Sarah Norcross, , produceds by Selig Polyscope Companyuction Company [2023] Video. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2024600563/.

APA citation style:

Anderson, G. M., Selig, W. N., Perry, P., Simpson, A., Balance Campaign, M., Library Of Congress. National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, C. & Paper Print Collection. (2023) The girl from Montana--excerpts. Hough, S. N., comp, , Selig Polyscope Companyuction Company, prod [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2024600563/.

MLA citation style:

Anderson, Gilbert M., Film Director, et al. The girl from Montana--excerpts. comp by Hough, Sarah Norcross, , prod by Selig Polyscope Companyuction Company [2023] Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2024600563/>.