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Author Topic: 1913 Lincoln Film Found In Barn Jim Cassedy Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1661 From: San Francisco, CA Registered: Dec 2006 posted 04-13-2010 05:09 PM                     WoW! I should clean out my garage..... 1913 Lincoln Film Found In Barn By Cathy McCormack, Associated Press Writer Tuesday, April 13, 2010 (04-13) 12:00 PDT Concord, N.H. (AP) -- A contractor cleaning out an old New Hampshire barn he was about to demolish has found the only known copy of a 1913 silent film about Abraham Lincoln. Francis Ford stars in "When Lincoln Paid." He's the brother of John Ford, director of "The Grapes of Wrath," and "The Quiet Man." Peter Massie gave the nitrate reels to Keene State College, which determined that the film didn't exist in film archives. It was one of eight silent films starring Francis Ford as Lincoln; there are no known surviving copies of the others. A Colorado lab has since restored the film about the mother of a dead Union solider requesting that Lincoln pardon a Confederate soldier whom she had initially turned in. The college is holding an April 20 screening.  |  IP: Logged Claude S. Ayakawa Film God Posts: 2738 From: Waipahu, Hawaii, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 04-13-2010 05:34 PM                        Jim, Yes. it was a amazing discovery! Do you have an idea what the running time of the Lincoln film is? -Claude  |  IP: Logged Martin McCaffery Film God Posts: 2481 From: Montgomery, AL Registered: Jun 99 posted 04-13-2010 05:42 PM                        Just in time for Confederate Awareness Month  |  IP: Logged Stephen Furley Film God Posts: 3059 From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England Registered: May 2002 posted 04-14-2010 11:17 AM                     Sounds a bit like something that happened here. This film: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0160467/maindetails Was thought totally lost, was suppressed when it was completed and never released. A complete tinted print was found a few years ago.  |  IP: Logged

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