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16th July 2012, 07:31 PM
Extraordinary 1920 silent film with all-Indian cast re-released after a painstaking restoration project
Film has not been seen since it was screened more than 90 years ago
By Kerry Mcqueeney (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/search.html?s=&authornamef=Kerry+Mcqueeney)
PUBLISHED: 12:01 GMT, 16 July 2012 | UPDATED: 12:11 GMT, 16 July 2012
Extraordinary footage from a 1920 silent film which historians feared had been lost forever has been brought back to life.
The film, called The Daughter Of Dawn, was shot in the Wichita Mountains of south west Oklahoma in July 1920 and used an all-American Indian cast.
However, the footage had not been seen since it was screened more than 90 years ago in October 1920, at the College Theater in Los Angeles.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/07/16/article-2174260-14150A94000005DC-638_634x395.jpg Brought back to life: It was feared The Daughter Of Dawn had been lost forever... but the a restored version has been re-released
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/07/16/article-2174260-14150AC1000005DC-4_634x290.jpg Going native: The Daughter Of Dawn featured an all-American Indian cast and was shot in the Wichita Mountains of south west Oklahoma in July 1920
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/07/16/article-2174260-14150AB1000005DC-809_634x455.jpg A scene from the film. According to historians, two of the key roles in the film are played by White and Wanada Parker - the son and daughter of the great Comanche leader Quanah Parker
Film historians feared the 80-minute, six-reel silent film had vanished forever until an intriguing development in 2005.
Brian Hearn, Oklahoma City Museum of Art's film curator, answered a phone call from a private investigator in North Carolina who was interested in selling a copy of silver nitrate film which he was given as part of his payment for a job.
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He believed the footage was the long-lost Daughter Of Dawn and experts were soon able to confirm his suspicions were right.
The museum, at that time, had not started to collect film, so the private investigator was instead directed to the Oklahoma Historical Society.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/07/16/article-2174260-141511E2000005DC-681_634x443.jpg Film experts say a lot of these people were pre-reservation Indians, who had been wandering free out on the Plains
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/07/16/article-2174260-14150AA1000005DC-933_634x339.jpg An intriguing phone call from a private investigator in 2005 revealed the film was still intact
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/07/16/article-2174260-14150ADB000005DC-966_634x369.jpg Historians said it would have been likely that much of the cast would have been living on allotted land and trying to adjust
The organisation then embarked on a huge restoration project to bring the film back to life.
It was then re-released and screened last month at the Dead Center Film Festival in Oklahoma City.
In one scene, a young Kiowa woman is shown in a close-up short. She was a young American Indian woman called Em-koy-e-tie.
For her son, Sammy 'Tone-kei' White, it was an emotional experience to see his mother on screen when he was first shown the footage five years ago.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/07/16/article-2174260-14150ACD000005DC-749_634x371.jpg The film re-released and screened last month at the Dead Center Film Festival in Oklahoma City
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/07/16/article-2174260-14150AB7000005DC-429_634x356.jpg The 80-minute, six-reel silent film was painstakingly restored by the Oklahoma Historical Society
Mr White, now 82 years old, said his mother was one of about 300 Kiowas and Comanches in the all-Indian cast.
He had only ever heard about her appearance in the film, particularly after her death in 1946 when many people told him of her brief flirtation with the film industry.
Mr White has not seen the entire film, but he was shown some scenes by staff in 2007.
He told the News OK (http://newsok.com/silent-film-with-all-indian-cast-restored-by-the-oklahoma-historical-society/article/3692566) website: 'My mother was walking right at me, she was so beautiful. I'm glad the room we were watching it in was dark, because it was emotional seeing her so young.
'To have someone say "we have The Daughter of Dawn" is something very sentimental to me.'
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/07/16/article-2174260-141511DA000005DC-950_634x377.jpg Some of the people in the film were in their 60s and 70s and would have been warriors out on the battle trail when they were young
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/07/16/article-2174260-141511DE000005DC-707_634x431.jpg Art imitating life: The American Indians are seen depicting warriors using their own equipment and tepees
Two of the key roles in the film are played by White and Wanada Parker - the son and daughter of the great Comanche leader Quanah Parker, historians say.
Bob Blackburn, executive director of the Oklahoma Historical Society, said it would have been likely that much of the cast would have been living on allotted land and trying to adjust.
According to the News OK (http://newsok.com/silent-film-with-all-indian-cast-restored-by-the-oklahoma-historical-society/article/3692566) website, he added: 'A lot of these people were pre-reservation Indians, who had been wandering free out on the Plains.
'Some of the people in that movie were in their 60s and 70s. They would have been young warriors out on the battle trail.
'And here they are depicting warriors again in their own gear, with their own tepee. That affects me every time I talk about it.'
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2174260/The-Daughter-Of-Dawn-Footage-restored-1920-silent-film-Indian-cast.html#ixzz20qKMZ9KP
Film has not been seen since it was screened more than 90 years ago
By Kerry Mcqueeney (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/search.html?s=&authornamef=Kerry+Mcqueeney)
PUBLISHED: 12:01 GMT, 16 July 2012 | UPDATED: 12:11 GMT, 16 July 2012
Extraordinary footage from a 1920 silent film which historians feared had been lost forever has been brought back to life.
The film, called The Daughter Of Dawn, was shot in the Wichita Mountains of south west Oklahoma in July 1920 and used an all-American Indian cast.
However, the footage had not been seen since it was screened more than 90 years ago in October 1920, at the College Theater in Los Angeles.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/07/16/article-2174260-14150A94000005DC-638_634x395.jpg Brought back to life: It was feared The Daughter Of Dawn had been lost forever... but the a restored version has been re-released
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/07/16/article-2174260-14150AC1000005DC-4_634x290.jpg Going native: The Daughter Of Dawn featured an all-American Indian cast and was shot in the Wichita Mountains of south west Oklahoma in July 1920
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/07/16/article-2174260-14150AB1000005DC-809_634x455.jpg A scene from the film. According to historians, two of the key roles in the film are played by White and Wanada Parker - the son and daughter of the great Comanche leader Quanah Parker
Film historians feared the 80-minute, six-reel silent film had vanished forever until an intriguing development in 2005.
Brian Hearn, Oklahoma City Museum of Art's film curator, answered a phone call from a private investigator in North Carolina who was interested in selling a copy of silver nitrate film which he was given as part of his payment for a job.
More...
leave this one......
Amazing video shows black waiter in 1960s Mississippi explaining the pain of working in white-only restaurant... as his decedents ask whether the footage led to his murder (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2173906/Booker-Wright-spoke-working-white-restaurant-1960s-Mississippi.html)
He believed the footage was the long-lost Daughter Of Dawn and experts were soon able to confirm his suspicions were right.
The museum, at that time, had not started to collect film, so the private investigator was instead directed to the Oklahoma Historical Society.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/07/16/article-2174260-141511E2000005DC-681_634x443.jpg Film experts say a lot of these people were pre-reservation Indians, who had been wandering free out on the Plains
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/07/16/article-2174260-14150AA1000005DC-933_634x339.jpg An intriguing phone call from a private investigator in 2005 revealed the film was still intact
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/07/16/article-2174260-14150ADB000005DC-966_634x369.jpg Historians said it would have been likely that much of the cast would have been living on allotted land and trying to adjust
The organisation then embarked on a huge restoration project to bring the film back to life.
It was then re-released and screened last month at the Dead Center Film Festival in Oklahoma City.
In one scene, a young Kiowa woman is shown in a close-up short. She was a young American Indian woman called Em-koy-e-tie.
For her son, Sammy 'Tone-kei' White, it was an emotional experience to see his mother on screen when he was first shown the footage five years ago.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/07/16/article-2174260-14150ACD000005DC-749_634x371.jpg The film re-released and screened last month at the Dead Center Film Festival in Oklahoma City
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/07/16/article-2174260-14150AB7000005DC-429_634x356.jpg The 80-minute, six-reel silent film was painstakingly restored by the Oklahoma Historical Society
Mr White, now 82 years old, said his mother was one of about 300 Kiowas and Comanches in the all-Indian cast.
He had only ever heard about her appearance in the film, particularly after her death in 1946 when many people told him of her brief flirtation with the film industry.
Mr White has not seen the entire film, but he was shown some scenes by staff in 2007.
He told the News OK (http://newsok.com/silent-film-with-all-indian-cast-restored-by-the-oklahoma-historical-society/article/3692566) website: 'My mother was walking right at me, she was so beautiful. I'm glad the room we were watching it in was dark, because it was emotional seeing her so young.
'To have someone say "we have The Daughter of Dawn" is something very sentimental to me.'
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/07/16/article-2174260-141511DA000005DC-950_634x377.jpg Some of the people in the film were in their 60s and 70s and would have been warriors out on the battle trail when they were young
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/07/16/article-2174260-141511DE000005DC-707_634x431.jpg Art imitating life: The American Indians are seen depicting warriors using their own equipment and tepees
Two of the key roles in the film are played by White and Wanada Parker - the son and daughter of the great Comanche leader Quanah Parker, historians say.
Bob Blackburn, executive director of the Oklahoma Historical Society, said it would have been likely that much of the cast would have been living on allotted land and trying to adjust.
According to the News OK (http://newsok.com/silent-film-with-all-indian-cast-restored-by-the-oklahoma-historical-society/article/3692566) website, he added: 'A lot of these people were pre-reservation Indians, who had been wandering free out on the Plains.
'Some of the people in that movie were in their 60s and 70s. They would have been young warriors out on the battle trail.
'And here they are depicting warriors again in their own gear, with their own tepee. That affects me every time I talk about it.'
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2174260/The-Daughter-Of-Dawn-Footage-restored-1920-silent-film-Indian-cast.html#ixzz20qKMZ9KP