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The church with an overshot wheel : an O. Henry story / Albert E. Smith presents ; produced by the Vitagraph Co of America.

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Format:
Video
Contributor:
Totten, Joseph Byron, 1875- director.
Vitagraph Company of America, production company.
Green Planet Films, publisher.
Series:
Academic Video Online
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Henry, O., 1862-1910--Film adaptations.
Henry, O.
Fathers and daughters--United States--Drama.
Fathers and daughters.
Missing children--Drama.
Missing children.
Genre:
Silent films.
Fiction films.
Short films.
Film adaptations.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (22 minutes)
Place of Publication:
[Stonington, Connecticut] : Green Planet Films, 2022.
Language Note:
Intertitles in English.
System Details:
video file
Summary:
Story: A grain miller lost his daughter and converted his mill into a church (The 'church' is the Old Town Mill in New London Connecticut). Green Planet Films announces the 2022 restoration of the silent film The Church with an Overshot Wheel (1920). Story by American author O Henry. Directed by Joseph Byron Totten. Restored by The Academy Film Archive in Los Angeles, with funding from Green Planet Films. Totten owned a farmhouse film studio in Voluntown, Connecticut from approximately 1915-1924, known as Studio Farm. Musical score composed by Donald Sosin.
Participant:
Ethel Flemming, William Corbett, W.H. Turner, Mr. Haywood, Rita Murphy.
Notes:
Title from title screen (viewed January 30, 2023).
OCLC:
1372359231

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