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The Silent Enemy

Item number (ISN):

108787

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1928/1929

Item number (ISN):

108787

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Fonds/collection:

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, THE

Accession:

1979-0217

Media:

Film

Original title:

The Silent Enemy

Part:

4 of 4

Production date:

1928/1929

Release date:

1930-08-02

Production company:

Burden-Chanler Productions

Production credit:

director, H.P. Carver; assistant director, Earl M. Welch; producer, W. Douglas Burden; William C. Chanler; scenario, Richard Carver; titles, Julian Johnson; photography, Marcel Le Picard; additional photography, Frank M. Broda; Horace D. Ashton; William Casel; Otto Durkoltz; technician, L.A. Bonn; synchronized music score, Massard Kur Zhene

Cast credit:

Chief Chauncey Yellow Robe, Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance/Sylvester Long, Molly Nelson, Paul Benoit, George McDougall

Country of production:

us

Distributor name:

Paramount-Publix Corporation

Description:

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In a spoken prologue, Chief Yellow Robe introduces the film: "This is the story of my people. Now the White Man has come; his civilization has destroyed my people... But now this same civilization has preserved our traditions before it was too late; now you will know us as we really are. Everything that you will see here is real; everything as it always has been..." With winter approaching and food scarce, Chetoga, chief of the Ojibwa, calls a council to decide the tribe's course. Baluk, the hunter, wishes to take the hunters south; and in spite of Dagwan's protests, Chetoga agrees to the plan. When winter comes and the hunters return emptyhanded, Baluk decides to move the tribe northward into the path of migrating caribou, though Dagwan, who is a rival for the chief's daughter, taunts him with cowardice. After days without food, camp is pitched, and Baluk goes forth to a mountain to pray to the Great Spirit and kills a moose besieged by timber wolves. But Chetoga dies, leaving Baluk chief of the tribe. After weeks of fruitless travel, Dagwan calls a ritualistic meeting. During his medicine dance, a snow-flurry is taken as a sign of Dagwan's supernatural power, and he tells them the Great Spirit requires the sacrifice of Baluk. Baluk chooses to die by fire, and a funeral pyre is built; but as he mounts it, word reaches the camp of a caribou stampede. Baluk takes charge, great numbers of caribou are slain, and there is feasting. As a result of his treachery, Dagwan is condemned to fare forth without food, water, or weapons, and Baluk takes Neewa for his wife. <83mn 50s>

Language:

Mute

Notes:

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1. Filmed largely on the Temagami Forest Reserve in northern Ontario, the film is a by-product of an expedition sponsored by the Museum of Natural History in New York.~2. Premiered in New York 1930-05-19.~3. Originally released with music and effects preceded by a spoken introduction, this print is mute.~4. Subject description from "The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films 1921-30", page 717.

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Vault ISN:

101772

Format:

FILM

Location number:

7909-1043
7909-1044
7909-1045
7909-1046

Number of items:

4

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

ANS PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

376181

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 2002-09-0017

Number of items:

1

Duration:

110:58

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

674557

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 8102-0022

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

977952

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V4 2002-09-0053

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Made from:

7909-1043
7909-1044
7909-1045
7909-1046

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 2002-09-0017
V1 8102-0022

Copyright status:

Under copyright until 2021 (given the 90-year rule)

Copyright owner:

Copyright probably rests with the Museum of Natural History in New York or with Burden-Chanler Productions.

Reproduction access:

with written permission of copyright owner : no donor restrictions

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