In the Border States

Movie
Original title	In the Border States
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	1910
length	17 minutes
Rod
Director	DW Griffith
script	Stanner Edward Varley Taylor
production	Biograph Company
camera	Johann Gottlob Wilhelm Bitzer
occupation
	Charles West : young father; Charles Arling; Owen Moore; William J. Butler : Confederate soldier ; Verner Clarges : Union soldier ; Edward Dillon : Confederate soldier; John T. Dillon : Union soldier; Gladys Egan : younger sister; Frank Evans : Confederate soldier; Francis J. Grandon : Doctor; Guy Hedlund : Confederate soldier; Dell Henderson : Union soldier; Henry Lehrman : Union soldier; William Chrystie Miller : grandfather saying goodbye; Alfred Paget : Union soldier; Mack Sennett : Union soldier; Henry Brazeale Walthall : Corporal of the Southern States; Dorothy West : Northern girl saying goodbye;

In the Border States from 1910 is one of a series of incoherent American silent films by director DW Griffith that deal with the Civil War . The film was released on June 13, 1910.

action

The father joins the Northern Army in the American Civil War . Meanwhile, in the vicinity of his house, looting Confederates are surprised and dispersed by a troop of Union soldiers. One of them reaches the father's house, where he is discovered by his youngest daughter. Desperate, he asks them for help. Despite her prejudices, she hides him by the well and even leads the search party on the wrong track. Meanwhile, the girl's father is assigned a courier service to take him behind the enemy lines. When he is discovered, he can save himself injured to his home. The older daughter rushes to get the doctor while her little sister barricades the door. When the Confederate search party, led by the soldier previously rescued by his daughter, stands in front of his room, the father burns the secret papers. The leader of the squad enters the room, and since he realizes that the papers he is looking for have been destroyed, he wants to kill the father. The daughter, in whom he recognizes his savior, courageously opposes him. So he pretends to his comrades that the enemy soldier is dead and the documents destroyed, and the squad withdraws.

background

Filming took place from May 3-14, 1910 at Biograph Studios at 11 East Fourteenth Street in New York. The location of the exterior shots was the Delaware breakthrough .

There is a 35 mm nitrate negative in the film archive of the Museum of Modern Art and a 35 mm paper print in the Paper Print Collection of the Library of Congress .

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Melvyn Stokes: DW Griffith's the Birth of a Nation. A History of "The Most Controversial Motion Picture of All Time" . Ed .: Oxford University Press Inc. 1st edition. Oxford University Press, New York 2008, ISBN 978-0-19-533678-8 , 3. David Wark Griffith, pp. 70 (American English, books.google.at [accessed September 7, 2015]).
↑ ^a ^b In the Border States. Silent Era, accessed September 7, 2015 .

[1] Melvyn Stokes: DW Griffith's the Birth of a Nation. A History of "The Most Controversial Motion Picture of All Time" . Ed .: Oxford University Press Inc. 1st edition. Oxford University Press, New York 2008, ISBN 978-0-19-533678-8 , 3. David Wark Griffith, pp. 70 (American English, books.google.at [accessed September 7, 2015]).

[silentera-2] In the Border States. Silent Era, accessed September 7, 2015 .