The Mate of the Alden Besse

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Channel: Eye Filmmuseum · 2016 · Film & Animation

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This film is from the Eye Filmmuseum collection. Many films in this collection contain outdated information or offensive language/images. While this is problematic, we do not wish to erase these films from (film) history. As a film museum, we show films as much as possible in their original form.   

 Director: Hobart Bosworth | Production Country: United States | Year: 1912 | Production Company: Selig Polyscope (United States) | FLM41575 | Film from the collection of Eye (Amsterdam) - https://www.eyefilm.nl/

A romantic drama about a captain’s daughter and a shipmate who are cast off the ship in the open seas because of a conflict.  

Cast: Bessie Eyton, Frank Clark (1857-1945), Hobart Bosworth, Tom Santschi, Betty Harte.


This film is from the Jean Desmet Collection at Eye. 
Jean Desmet (1875-1956) was one of the leading cinema operators and film distributors in the Netherlands from 1907 – 1916. The Jean Desmet Collection at Eye has more than 900 films, and is included UNESCO's Memory of the World Register.
https://www.eyefilm.nl/en/collection/collections/film/film-files/de-jaren-twintig-en-dertig/file-desmet


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