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Posted by Jim Cassedy (Member # 4115) on 04-13-2010, 05:09 PM:

WoW! I should clean out my garage.....

1913 Lincoln Film Found In Barn
By Cathy McCormack, Associated Press Writer
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
(04-13) 12:00 PDT Concord, N.H. (AP) --
A contractor cleaning out an old New Hampshire barn he was about to demolish has found the only known copy of a 1913 silent film about Abraham Lincoln.

Francis Ford stars in "When Lincoln Paid." He's the brother of John Ford, director of "The Grapes of Wrath," and "The Quiet Man."

Peter Massie gave the nitrate reels to Keene State College, which determined that the film didn't exist in film archives. It was one of eight silent films starring Francis Ford as Lincoln; there are no known surviving copies of the others.

A Colorado lab has since restored the film about the mother of a dead Union solider requesting that Lincoln pardon a Confederate soldier whom she had initially turned in. The college is holding an April 20 screening.

Posted by Claude S. Ayakawa (Member # 1401) on 04-13-2010, 05:34 PM:

Jim,

Yes. it was a amazing discovery!
Do you have an idea what the running time of the Lincoln film is?

-Claude

Posted by Martin McCaffery (Member # 37) on 04-13-2010, 05:42 PM:

Just in time for Confederate Awareness Month [evil]

Posted by Stephen Furley (Member # 1277) on 04-14-2010, 11:17 AM:

Sounds a bit like something that happened here. This film:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0160467/maindetails

Was thought totally lost, was suppressed when it was completed and never released. A complete tinted print was found a few years ago.