Home Movie: Gordon Hewes Collection: 004164 (silent)

Description: Opening title card reads:
INSURRECTION
a tale of pre-war Russia
with Charles Warren

An amateur silent film narrative set during the Russian Revolution, featuring original scenes filmed on a makeshift set intercut with what appear to be commercial intertitles and stock scenes of Asian dockworkers loading or unloading bundles of goods.

Additional related fragments in items 202373, 202375, and 202376

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Subjects: Performances,History,1930s

Tags: amateur narratives; costumes; sets; intertitles; Tsarist Russia; Russian Revolution; dock workers; People of Asian origin or descent; drama

Film Sponsor:

Creator: Gordon Hewes

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Distributor:

Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Gordon Hewes Collection PC-0045

Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive

Production Date: circa 1930s

Release Date:

Geographical Location: USA

Genre/Form: home movie, short, amateur

Language: eng

Rights:

Film Format: 16mm film

Element: reversal, print

Color: b&w

Color Process:

Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: square plus

Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 97