That Ice Ticket
About That Ice Ticket
A young woman in Casselton puts up a sign offering free ice, hoping to draw suitors. Her younger brother Bud covers it with a smallpox quarantine sign to sort out the men. Callers have to decide whether to come to a house that looks infected.
Cast & crew
More about That Ice Ticket
Angela Murray Gibson wrote, directed, photographed, and played the woman. She ran Gibson Studios in Casselton and used local people in the cast. The New York Women in Film & Television record dates the short to 1923, at 10 minutes, 16mm, black and white, and silent. The Commons file is titled 1922. The catalog year is empty.
Themes
Look
Gibson operated the camera herself and then processed and cut the 16mm footage.
Preservation
The State Historical Society of North Dakota holds it. A preservation was partly funded through a Kino Lorber Kickstarter tied to First Women Filmmakers.
Notes
- Gibson had been an assistant director to Maurice Tourneur on The Pride of the Clan and then studied cinematography at Columbia.
- The State Historical Society of North Dakota holds the film.
- Kino Lorber included it in the DVD set First Women Filmmakers and helped pay for the preservation.
Scenes
- Bud tacks a smallpox sign over the free-ice notice.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (That Ice Ticket (1922).webm)