| Description |
1 videodisc (82 min.) : silent, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. |
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digital rdatr |
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optical rdarm |
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video file rdaft |
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Blu-ray |
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region A region B region C rdare |
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Motion pictures lcgft |
| Series |
Flicker fusion series.
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| Summary |
Directed by H.P. Carver and filmed in the Canadian Northwest, this 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 to secure food and safety for the tribe. Based on detailed accounts of French missionaries, this film, a hybrid of fictional melodrama and ethnographic film techniques, was made in collaboration with Native American actors with the goal of depicting the authentic ways 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. |
| System Details |
Blu-ray; regions A, B, C; requires Blu-ray player. |
| Language |
Silent film. |
| Note |
Title from container. |
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Rating: Not rated. |
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Originally released as a motion picture in 1930. |
| Cast |
Chief Yellow Robe, Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance, Chief Akawanush. |
| Audience |
Rating: Not rated. |
| Subject |
Ojibwa Indians -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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| Genre |
Feature films.
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Fiction films.
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Blu-ray discs.
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| Added Author |
Carver, H. P. (Harry P.), -1952, film director.
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Yellow Robe, Chauncey, 1870-1930, actor.
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Buffalo Child Long Lance, 1890-1932, actor.
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Akawanush, actor.
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Flicker Alley (Firm), publisher.
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| Standard No. |
617311600395 |
| Music No. |
FF 0003 Flicker Fusion |
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