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Vitagraph camp (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • Seuss. said:
    Fort Wadsworth, Staten Island, NY. This photo appeared in The Moving Picture World 9/9/16 issue, p 1674. 9/2/16 New York Dramatic Mirror reports "The Thirteenth Coast Artillery under the command of Capt. G.W. Johnston was encamped along the sloping plain along the Fingerboard Road" Mount Manresa?

Vitagraph Battlefield -- trenches (LOC)

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  • Seuss. said:
    Fort Wadsworth, Staten Island, NY. This photo appeared in The Moving Picture World 9/9/16 issue, p 1674.
  • Art Siegel said:
    It's not clear to me whether this is Ft. Wadsworth, or soldiers from the fort were used in the filming near Grasmere.

Vitagraph gun (LOC)

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  • swanq said:
    Man on horse is likely J. Stuart Blackton, judging from neighboring photo.
    Vitagraph camp, Commodere Stuart Blackton (LOC)
  • Art Siegel said:
    Right, same guy, same horse. I suppose the fellow with the megaphone is the director.
  • swanq said:
    The guy with the megaphone is more of a puzzle. It seems likely that the movie is "Britton of the Seventh" as suggested by Seuss in comment with
    Vitagraph "Movie" Battle (LOC)
    However, the director of that movie was Lionel Belmore, who looked nothing like the slim guy with the light jacket who appears in several of these Vitagraph photos with megaphone and pad of paper (presumably the shooting script). See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Belmore
  • swanq said:
    One possibility is Colonel Jasper Ewing Brady who was responsible for the scenario of Britton of the Seventh. See portrait in his "The Necessity of Original Photoplay Material" books.google.com/books?id=1TxDAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA1&lpg...
  • Seuss. said:
    I don't think this is "Britton of the Seventh". I think we're looking at two different battle scenes for two different movies that were filmed around the same time at the same spot. Scenes with these big industrial looking guns and soldiers in modern (for 1915, anyway) uniform and sandbagged trenches were likely for Battle Cry for Peace. The Britton of the Seventh scenes feature an easily identifiable Custer and soldiers in civil war era uniforms with antique long rifles (not exaclty historically accurate, but . . . ) My guess is that Lionel Belmore directed most of Britton in studio in Brooklyn. I'd guess that most of Battle Cry was filmed in Brooklyn as well by . . . whoever. But since the studio was going on location to film big sweeping battle scenes for Battle Cry ( a big 9-reel feature) they probably tucked in a half day of filming a flashback scene of Custer's Last Stand to drop into Britton (a 4-reel melodrama.)