The Redman's View
About The Redman's View
White settlers drive an Indian village off its ground. Silver Eagle, played by Owen Moore, has to help his father, James Kirkwood, on the march to find another home. The settlers keep Minnewanna, played by Lottie Pickford, behind, so she is separated from him. The column goes on.
Cast & crew
More about The Redman's View
D. W. Griffith directed. Frank E. Woods wrote it. G. W. Bitzer photographed it, and Wikidata also lists Arthur Marvin. Biograph released it on December 9, 1909. The negative is listed at 971 feet, one reel. It was shot in New York state.
Themes
Background
Biograph Westerns of 1909 often staged an Indian removal as a sentimental march. This one does that in a single reel, with named leads rather than a battle.
Making
Griffith shot the march as a one-reel Biograph Western in New York state, with the village on foot and the settlers holding one woman back.
Reviews
The New York Dramatic Mirror (1909) said the film was about 'the helpless Indian race as it has been forced to recede before the advancing white, and as such is full of poetic sentiment.'
Look
G. W. Bitzer shot the reel in New York state. Arthur Marvin is also listed as a cameraman.
Preservation
Prints are held by the Museum of Modern Art and the Library of Congress.
Notes
- The New York Dramatic Mirror described it as the Indian people forced to recede before the advancing white, and called that 'full of poetic sentiment.'
- Arthur V. Johnson, Mack Sennett, Henry Lehrman, and Alfred Paget are among the settlers billed as conquerors.
- Kate Bruce, Edith Haldeman, and W. Chrystie Miller are billed among the Indians.
- Prints are at the Museum of Modern Art and the Library of Congress.
- The title is also written The Red Man's View.
Scenes
- Settlers order the village to leave.
- Minnewanna is held back while Silver Eagle goes on with his father.
- The column walks toward another home.
Also available
- Internet Archive (TheRedmansView)
