The Massacre

Duration: 34

Year Published: 1912

Creator: Blackhawk

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: silent

Description: The trials of going West are the subject of this early film by D. W. Griffith. A woman with her husband and child make the long journey westward with a wagon train. En route, they are attacked by Indians. Griffith utilized many camera postions in filming the action and used parallel cutting to intercut a cavalry skirmish with the Indians and the hero searching the battlefield for his wife and baby.

Complete Record: The trials of going West are the subject of this early film by D. W. Griffith. A woman with her husband and child make the long journey westward with a wagon train. En route, they are attacked by Indians. Griffith utilized many camera postions in filming the action and used parallel cutting to intercut a cavalry skirmish with the Indians and the hero searching the battlefield for his wife and baby.


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