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The Silent enemy : an epic of the American Indian /

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmLanguage: English Original language: n/a Subtitle language: English Series: Publisher: Los Angeles, CA Flicker Alley [2022]Publisher: Burbank, CA Blackhawk Films LLC [2022]Beginning or single date created: 1930.Edition: Blu-RayDescription: 1 video disc (82 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4inOther title:
  • Epic of the American Indian
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Production credits:
  • Scenario, Richard Carver ; story W. Douglas Burden ; music, Massard Kur Zhene ; music performed by Rosa Rio ; photographer, Marcel Le Picard.
Summary: A fictional documentary which presents a study of the Ojibway Indians' struggle for food before the coming of the Europeans. Tells of the rivalry between Baluk, the hunter, and Dagwan, the medicine man, for the chief's daughter and the leadership of the tribe in the coming winter. Filmed in Northern Ontario with an all-Indian cast.Summary: Bonus materials included : Choice of Two Music Scores : An Original orchestral score composed by Siegfried Friedrich and a new orchestral score compiled and performed by the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra. Audio Interview : An edited series of vintage interview with the film's producer, W. Douglas Burden, conducted by celebrated author and film historian Kevin Brownlow. Image Gallery : Slideshow presentation featuring original production and promotional materials
List(s) this item appears in: Indigenous filmmakers
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Shelving location Call number Status Barcode
Blu-Ray Carleton University, AVRC Blu-ray Disc (Requires Blu-ray Player) SP456 - Collections Room BLU-00732 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not For Loan 16050316577+

Video disc release of the 1930 motion picture.

Silent film with 1 talking sequence, music score, sound effects and English titles.

From the Case - " Flicker Ally, Lobster Films, and the Blackhawk Films Collection, proudly present a brand-new Flicker Fusion Blu-ray Disc Edition of The Silent Enemy (1930). Directed by H.Ph. Carver and filmed in the Canadian Northwest, the portrait of native American Life follows the Chippewa tribe in distress as they travel North when food is scarce just before the onset of winter. As the tribe battles hunger, however, conditions only become more desperate after the death of their leader, Chief Chetoga. A new Chief must now be chosen without delay in order to secure food and safety for the tribe."

From the Case - "Based on detailed accounts of French missionaries, The Silent Enemy, a hybrid of fictional melodarama and ethnographic film technique, was made in collaboration with Native American actors with the goal of depicting the authentic way of life of the Ojibway indigenous tribe before the arrival of European settlers. In his prologue to the film, Chief Chauncey Yellow Robe, a noted and respectable Sioux, asks audiences to view the performers in the film not as actors, but as people revisiting - or reenacting - their heritage and traditions."

Blu-ray Disc, Region A, B, C, Subtitles for the SDH

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