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The Post Telegrapher

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Channel: Eye Filmmuseum · 2016 · Film & Animation

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 Director: Francis Ford, Thomas H. Ince, Frank Morty [?] | Production Country: United States | Year: 1912 | Production Company: NYMPC - New York Motion Picture Bison (United States) | FLM53995 | Film from the collection of Eye (Amsterdam) - https://www.eyefilm.nl/en 

Bob Evans, a telegraph operator, together with a group of soldiers gets ambushed by Sioux Indians. Wounded, he climbs into a telegraph pole and asks through the telegraph wires for help from the fort. 
Bob's fiancée Edith comes along with the soldiers. The soldiers find only dead bodies and decide to chase the Indians. Edith stays behind to search for Bob. She finds him and together they return to the fort. The Sioux then attack the fort, but when the situation seems hopeless, the army returns and the Indians are expelled.

Cast: Lillian Christy, Jack Conway, Francis Ford, Mildred Harris, William Myers, Robert Stanton, Ann Little.


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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