The Girl Spy Before Vicksburg

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The Girl Spy Before Vicksburg
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Gene Gauntier as Nan, the Girl Spy
Directed by Sidney Olcott
Written byGene Gauntier
Produced bySidney Olcott
Starring Gene Gauntier
JP McGowan
Robert Vignola
Cinematography George K. Hollister
Production
company
Distributed by General Film Company
Release date
  • December 28, 1910 (1910-12-28)
[1]
Running time
935 ft
(14 minutes) [1] [2]
CountryUnited States
Languages Silent film
(English intertitles at release in United States)

The Girl Spy Before Vicksburg is a 1910 American silent film produced by Kalem Company of New York and shot at the company's "winter studio" in Jacksonville, Florida. Directed by Sidney Olcott, the Civil War drama stars Gene Gauntier, Robert Vignola and JP McGowan. [3] [4] [5] Gauntier, in addition to performing as the production's title character, is credited with writing its storyline or "scenario". [6]

Contents

A full copy of this film, although with Dutch intertitles, is held at the EYE Filmmuseum in Amsterdam. [5]

Cast

Plot

"In the absence of men, a Civil War commander asks his daughter (The Girl Spy) to sabotage a gunpowder transport. The girl disguises herself as a soldier and completes her task. After a dangerous escape, she returns to her crying mother." [6]

Notes

    References and notes

    1. 1 2 "Record of Weekly Licensed Film Releases" / "The Girl Spy Before Vicksburg"; published in The Film Index (New York, N. Y.), December 31, 1910, p. 29. Retrieved via Internet Archive (San Francisco, California), May 7, 2023.
    2. ↑ According to the reference How Movies Work by Bruce F. Kawin (New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1987, pp. 46-47), a full 1000-foot reel of film in the silent era had a maximum running time of 15 to 16 minutes. Silent films were generally projected at an average or "standard" speed of 16 frames per second, much slower than the 24 frames of later sound films. This film, with its cited length of 935 feet, would have originally run somewhere between 14 and 15 minutes.
    3. ↑ Wesley Alan Britton (2006). Onscreen and Undercover: The Ultimate Book of Movie Espionage. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 34–5. ISBN   978-0-275-99281-1.
    4. ↑ Denise Lowe (27 January 2014). An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Women in Early American Films: 1895-1930. Taylor & Francis. pp. 1932–5. ISBN   978-1-317-71896-3.
    5. 1 2 Laura Horak (26 February 2016). Girls Will Be Boys: Cross-Dressed Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema, 1908-1934. Rutgers University Press. p. 46. ISBN   978-0-8135-7484-4.
    6. 1 2 "The Girl Spy Before Vicksburg [ID FLM24827]". EYE Filmmuseum Collection Catalogue [online database] (in Dutch). Retrieved January 21, 2021.


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