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The silent enemy / Paramount presents a Burden-Chanler production ; directed by H.P. Carver ; story by W. Douglas Burden, scenario by Richard Carver.
Van Pelt - Video Collection (ask at Circulation Desk) BLU RAY 038 957 1 disc + booklet
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- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Blackhawk Films collection
- Language:
- English
- No linguistic content
- Subjects (All):
- Ojibwa Indians--Canada--Social life and customs--Drama.
- Ojibwa Indians.
- Caribou hunting--Canada--Drama.
- Caribou hunting.
- Famines--Canada--Drama.
- Famines.
- Ojibwa Indians--Social life and customs.
- Canada.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Feature films.
- Fiction films.
- Silent films.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (82 min.) : silent, color tinted ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 pamphlet (folded)
- Place of Publication:
- [Los Angeles, Calif.] : Flicker Fusion, [2022]
- Language Note:
- Silent film with English intertitles.
- System Details:
- Blu-ray; all regions; 1080p high definition; LPCM 2.0 stereo; requires Blu-ray player.
- digital
- optical
- stereo
- LPCM
- video file
- Blu-ray
- all regions
- Summary:
- "In the Canadian Northwest, the Chippewa tribe struggles to find food before the onset of winter. Chief Chetoga agrees with the hunter Baluk to move north toward the caribou herds, despite the protests of Dagwan, the medicine man. After the move, hunting proves unsuccessful, despite the numerous animals around them. Chetoga's daughter, Neewa (Spotted Elk) mocks Baluk, but when Chetoga dies, he is made the new chief. When his people remain without food, the tribe turns against him." -- Rottentomatoes.com, March 6, 2026.
- Directed by H.P. Carver and filmed in the Canadian Northwest, this portrait of Native American life follows the Chippewa tribe in distress as they travel North when food is scarce just before the onset of winter. As the tribe battles hunger, however, conditions only become more desperate after the death of their leader, Chief Chetoga. A new Chief must now be chosen without delay to secure food and safety for the tribe. Based on detailed accounts of French missionaries, this film, a hybrid of fictional melodrama and ethnographic film techniques, was made in collaboration with Native American actors with the goal of depicting the authentic ways of life of the Ojibway Indigenous tribe before the arrival of European settlers. In his prologue to the film, Chief Chauncey Yellow Robe, a noted and respectable Sioux, asks audiences to view the performers in the film not as actors, but as people revisiting, or reenacting, their heritage, and traditions.
- Contents:
- Opening credits
- Staff of life
- New hunting grounds
- The North Wind
- Savage with hunger
- Medicine dream
- Death chant
- Signal fires
- Law of the tribe.
- Participant:
- Chief Yellow Robe, Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance, Chief Akawanush, Mary Alice Nelson Archambaud, Cheeka, Mali Spotted Elk.
- Credits:
- Director of photography, Marcel Le Picard ; music, Massard Kur Zhene.
- Notes:
- Title and credits from screen; cast from IMDb.
- Originally released as a motion picture in 1930.
- Accompanying pamphlet includes an excerpt from Kevin Brownlow's "The war, the west, and the wilderness"; set photography; notes on the restoration and Blu-ray publication.
- Silent film with spoken prologue by Chief Yellow Robe.
- "Based on detailed accounts of French missionaries, this film, a hybrid of fictional melodrama and ethnographic film techniques, was made in collaboration with Native American actors with the goal of depicting the authentic ways of life of the Ojibway Indigenous tribe before the arrival of European settlers. In his prologue to the film, Chief Chauncey Yellow Robe, a noted and respectable Sioux, asks audiences to view the performers in the film not as actors, but as people revisiting, or reenacting, their heritage, and traditions." -- Container.
- Special features: Audio interview- an edited series of vintage interviews with the film's producer, W. Douglas Burden, conducted by author and film historian Kevin Brownlow; image gallery- slideshow presentation featuring original production and promotional materials; choice of two music scores- an original orchestral score composed by Siegfried Friedrich and a new orchestral score compiled and performed by the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra.
- Contains:
- Container of: Silent enemy (Motion picture)
- OCLC:
- 1332532070
- Publisher Number:
- 617311600395
- FF0003 Flicker Fusion
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