Tuesday, April 13, 2010

1913 Lincoln film found in NH barn cleanup

CONCORD, N.H. —

A contractor cleaning out an aged New Hampshire stable he was about to demolish has found the usually well known copy of the 1913 wordless movie about Abraham Lincoln.

Francis Ford stars in "When Lincoln Paid." He's the brother of John Ford, executive of "The Grapes of Wrath," and "The Quiet Man."

Peter Massie gave the nitrate reels to Keene State College, which dynamic which the movie didn't exist in movie archives. It was the single of 8 wordless drive-in theatre starring Francis Ford as Lincoln; there have been no well known flourishing copies of the others.

A Colorado lab has given restored the movie about the mother of the passed Union solider requesting which Lincoln atonement the Confederate soldier whom she had initially incited in. The college is holding an April twenty screening.



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