The Battle
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Original title | The Battle |
Country of production | United States |
original language | English |
Publishing year | 1911 |
length | 19 minutes |
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Director | DW Griffith |
script | Emmett Campbell Hall |
production | Biograph Company |
camera | Johann Gottlob Wilhelm Bitzer |
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The 1911 The Battle 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 November 6, 1911.
action
The boy joins the Union soldiers in the civil war. During his first battle, he panics and hides in the nearby house of his loved ones. This sends him back into battle , where he can rejoin his troops unnoticed. After the commanding general was badly wounded, the boy was sent to the stage to bring in ammunition supplies . On the dangerous route he managed to get an ammunition wagon through, which made it to the front line just in time to repel an attack by the Confederates .
background
The film was shot in Fort Lee . The studio recordings took place in the Champion Studios and the field recordings in the vicinity of Fort Lee.
The Battle was one of the first films by the future Oscar winner Lionel Barrymore .
Excerpts from The Battle were used in The Birth of a Nation .
Web links
- The Battle with excerpts from the film in the Internet Archive
- The Battle in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Battle in the online film database