The House with Closed Shutters

Movie
Original title	The House with Closed Shutters
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	1910
length	16 minutes
Rod
Director	DW Griffith
script	Emmett Campbell Hall
production	Biograph Company
camera	Johann Gottlob Wilhelm Bitzer
occupation
	Henry B. Walthall : Charles Randolph, Confederate soldier ; Grace Henderson : Grace Henderson, his mother; Dorothy West : Agnes R., his sister; Joseph Graybill : her admirer; Charles West : her admirer; William J. Butler : the servant; Edwin August; Verner Clarges : in General Lee's tent ; John T. Dillon : on the porch / at the farewell / in General Lee's tent; Gladys Egan : little girl on the porch / when saying goodbye; Frank Evans : in General Lee's tent; Francis J. Grandon : in General Lee's tent; Alfred Paget : on the veranda / when saying goodbye; Mabel Van Buren : on the veranda / when saying goodbye;

The 1910 House with Closed Shutters 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 August 8, 1910.

action

The sister is fulfilling a military assignment that she wants to carry out in uniform and in the name of her brother, who is hiding at home out of cowardice and drunkenness. To keep the family away from shame, the mother closes the shutters, forbids her son to leave the house, and explains her daughter's absence with her grief over her brother's supposed death. Only after a few years did the admirers of the sister notice the dizziness.

background

Filming took place from June 25 to July 2, 1910 at Biograph Studios at 11 East Fourteenth Street in New York. The location of the exterior shots was the vicinity of Fort Lee .

In the film archive of the Museum of Modern Art is a 35 mm exists nitrate negative , the George Eastman House , a 35 mm acetate - Interpositive Preservation Associates, in the holdings of the film a copy, as well as the archives of the Library of Congress in the Paper Print Collection , a 35 mm Paper print.

The increasing work activity of women made them an interesting target group for the film producers of the time.

While the heroines in Griffith's films are often portrayed as innocent victims of circumstance, like In Old Kentucky , this film depicts a strong, independent woman.

Web links

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b The House with Closed Shutters. Silent Era, accessed September 22, 2015 .
^ Kathy Peiss: Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York . Editor: Temple University Press. Philadelphia 1987 (American English).
↑ Tom Gunning: Making Sense of Film . February 2002, ???, p. ??? (American English, [1] [PDF; accessed October 4, 2015]).
^ ^A ^b Jaclyn A. Smith: DW Griffith's biograph shorts: teaching history with early silent films, 1908-1922 . Ed .: The University of Toledo Digital Repository. Toledo December 2007, III. The Life of DW Griffith, S. 31, 82 ff . (American English, http://utdr.utoledo.edu/theses-dissertations/1324/ [accessed September 22, 2015]).
^ The House with Closed Shutters. Early & Silent Film, accessed on September 22, 2015 .

[silentera-1] A ^b The House with Closed Shutters. Silent Era, accessed September 22, 2015 .

[Peiss-2] Kathy Peiss: Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York . Editor: Temple University Press. Philadelphia 1987 (American English).

[Gunning-3] Tom Gunning: Making Sense of Film . February 2002, ???, p. ??? (American English, [1] [PDF; accessed October 4, 2015]).

[Smith-4] A ^b Jaclyn A. Smith: DW Griffith's biograph shorts: teaching history with early silent films, 1908-1922 . Ed .: The University of Toledo Digital Repository. Toledo December 2007, III. The Life of DW Griffith, S. 31, 82 ff . (American English, http://utdr.utoledo.edu/theses-dissertations/1324/ [accessed September 22, 2015]).

[cinetext-5] The House with Closed Shutters. Early & Silent Film, accessed on September 22, 2015 .