Kit Carson (1903 film)

1903 film

Kit Carson

Cinematography| Wallace McCutcheon, Sr.

Production
company

American Mutoscope and Biograph Company

Distributed by| American Mutoscope and Biograph Company

Release date

* October 1903 (1903-10)

Running time

| 21 minutes[1][2]
Country| United States
Languages| Silent
English intertitles

Kit Carson is one of the earliest Western films,[3] being released by the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company in October 1903. (According to silentera.com, portions may have been released the month before.[4]) Part of the footage was reused in The Pioneers, another Western short also released by Biograph in October 1903.[5][6] Both films were shot on location in the Adirondack Mountains of New York.[7]

## Plot

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Kit Carson and another trapper are attacked by Indians in the wilderness; Carson is taken prisoner and his companion killed. He escapes, but is recaptured and taken to his captors' village. There, a maiden takes pity on him and cuts his bonds, enabling him to escape again and return home to his loving family.[4]

## References

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1. ^ Tim Dirks. "The History of Film / The Pre-1920s / Early Cinematic Origins and the Infancy of Film / Part 2". Filmsite.org.
2. ^ Aquila, Richard (April 16, 2015). The Sagebrush Trail: Western Movies and Twentieth-Century America. University of Arizona Press. p. 15\. ISBN 9780816531547.
3. ^ Dar Haddix (November 27, 2003). "Feature: A century of Western movies". United Press International.
4. ^ a b "Kit Carson". silentera.com.
5. ^ "The Pioneers". silentera.com.
6. ^ "Kit Carson (1903): Notes". Turner Classic Movies.
7. ^ Gomery, Douglas; Pafort-Overduin, Clara (February 28, 2011). Movie History: A Survey: Second Edition. Taylor & Francis. p. 23\. ISBN 9781136835254.

## External links

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* Kit Carson at IMDb
* Kit Carson at the TCM Movie Database
* Kit Carson at silentera.com, with a detailed synopsis from "Biograph promotional materials"

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Films directed by Wallace McCutcheon Sr.

* The Fastest Wrecking Crew in the World (1897)
* The Pioneers (1903)
* Kit Carson (1903)
* Boat Race (1904)
* The Escaped Lunatic (1904)
* Personal (1904)
* The Widow and the Only Man (1904)
* The Lost Child (1904)
* The Chicken Thief (1904)
* The Suburbanite (1904)
* Panorama from Times Building (1905)
* The Nihilist (1905)
* Tom Tom the Piper's Son (1905)
* The Whole Dam Family and the Dam Dog (1905)
* The White Caps (1905)
* The Watermelon Patch (1905)
* The Miller's Daughter (1905)
* The Train Wreckers (1905)
* The Life of an American Policeman (1905)
* Police Chasing Scorching Auto (1905)
* The Night Before Christmas (1905)
* Dream of a Rarebit Fiend (1906)
* Three American Beauties (1906)
* The Black Hand (1906)
* A Winter Straw Ride (1906)
* The Terrible Kids (1906)
* Kathleen Mavourneen (1906)
* Getting Evidence (1906)
* Daniel Boone, or Pioneer Days in America (1907)
* The "Teddy" Bears (1907)
* The Kentuckian (1908)
* The Sculptor's Nightmare (1908)
* When Knights Were Bold (1908)
* Bobby's Kodak (1908)
* Old Isaacs, the Pawnbroker (1908)
* The Stolen Wireless (1909)

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