War on the Plains

1912 film

War on the Plains
(aka Across the Plains)

Film still, 1912

Directed by| Thomas H. Ince
Written by| William Eagle Shirt
Thomas H. Ince
Ray Myers
Produced by| Bison Motion Pictures,
New York Motion Picture Company
Starring| Francis Ford
Ethel Grandin
Distributed by| Motion Picture Distributors and Sales Company
Cosmopolitan Films (UK)

Release date

* February 23, 1912 (1912-02-23)

Running time

| 2 reels (20 minutes)[1]
Country| United States
Languages| Silent
English intertitles

War on the Plains, also called Across the Plains, is a 1912 American silent short Western film directed by Thomas H. Ince and starring Francis Ford, Ethel Grandin and Ray Myers. It was produced by Bison Motion Pictures, a subsidiary of the New York Motion Picture Company. The film was made at Inceville, Santa Ynez, California.[2]

This short is referred to as Across the Plains in Daniel Blum's Pictorial History of Silent Films.[3] Several other films with this title were released before and after this short was initially distributed.

## Cast

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* Francis Ford as Drake, a Treacherous Prospector
* Ethel Grandin as Ethel, the Wagon Captain's Daughter
* Ray Myers as A Young Emigrant
* Howard Davies as A Prospector
* William Eagle Shirt as Indian
* J. Barney Sherry as Frontiersman
* Art Acord as Frontiersman
* Clayton Monroe Teters as Indian (unbilled)

## Preservation status

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This film is preserved in the UCLA Film & TV archive.

## References

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1. ^ Kawin, Bruce F. How Movies Work. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1987, pp. 46–47. According to this reference, a 1000-foot theatrical reel of film in the silent era was projected at a "standard" speed of 16 frames per second, considerably slower than the 24 frames in the sound era. A full silent reel therefore had a maximum running time of 15 minutes. Most reels, however, were not filled to their maximum capacity.
2. ^ War on the Plains at silentera.com
3. ^ Pictorial History of Silent Films, p.21 c.1953 by Daniel Blum ISBN 0-399-50667-5

## External links

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* War on the Plains at IMDb

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