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    Jean!!!! (pictures)

    I finally got in the film "A Sailor's Sacrifice" (1909) which is credited for being one of the first (if not the first) film to co-star a dog. The dog is Jean (a.k.a. the Vitagraph Dog) who went on to star in about a dozen short films.

    The film itself is highly melodramatic and it was filmed on the coast of Maine (when all the film companies were in NYC they did a lot of filming in Maine).

    Here are some screenshots I got from the film, please excuse the low quality of some of them, the film is over 100 years old.

    This film has remained hidden (not deliberately) by a small film preservation company who specialize in films shot in New England who received a copy as a donation from a London film company. All of Jean's films have been though to have been lost in time - this one probably went unnoticed because Jean wasn't in the credits. Apparently a company out in California has another one of her films, too (yes, I've contacted them).













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    ... as in "Ifn thet dawg comes at me, Ima gonna shutz ma panz!"
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    If the film is out of copyright, you ought to digitize the entire thing and upload it to a public repository, such as archive.org or Google Video.

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      Quoth TheSHAD0W View Post
      If the film is out of copyright, you ought to digitize the entire thing and upload it to a public repository, such as archive.org or Google Video.
      The best thing to do would be to speak with a film archivist, who would know the laws, how to digitize it without destroying it, and the best way to preserve the film. If there's a college with a film/media department, one of the professors might be able to point you in the right direction. Or a library with a special film department. Chances are that the suggestion will be to get the film out of Florida, or at least in a humidity-controlled environment.

      Current copyright, IIRC, is life of creator + 75 years. So there is a chance that it's still copyright protected.
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        Quoth TheSHAD0W View Post
        If the film is out of copyright, you ought to digitize the entire thing and upload it to a public repository, such as archive.org or Google Video.
        That's a sticky situation..

        Quoth AdminAssistant View Post
        The best thing to do would be to speak with a film archivist, who would know the laws, how to digitize it without destroying it, and the best way to preserve the film. If there's a college with a film/media department, one of the professors might be able to point you in the right direction. Or a library with a special film department. Chances are that the suggestion will be to get the film out of Florida, or at least in a humidity-controlled environment.

        Current copyright, IIRC, is life of creator + 75 years. So there is a chance that it's still copyright protected.
        From this time it was only 29 years unless renewed and this film is VERY out of copyright. What I rented is a DVD copy, the film company transferred it originally back in the 1990's to VHS and sometime brought it over to DVD.

        I do have a Rin Tin Tin film that I need to convert to DVD, though, but I have an 8mm projector and a telecine setup so that shouldn't be a problem, just a matter of finding the time.
        Quote Dalesys:
        ... as in "Ifn thet dawg comes at me, Ima gonna shutz ma panz!"

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          Quoth draggar View Post
          From this time it was only 29 years unless renewed and this film is VERY out of copyright. What I rented is a DVD copy, the film company transferred it originally back in the 1990's to VHS and sometime brought it over to DVD.
          Ah! I thought you had the actual film reels. Sorry.
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          Tony: "Everyone's counting on you, just do what you do best."
          Abby: "Dance?" ~ NCIS

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            Quoth AdminAssistant View Post
            Ah! I thought you had the actual film reels. Sorry.
            Not with this film (luckily) but I do have the "Hills of Kentucky" (1927) on 8mm that I need to convert to digital plus an unknown Rin Tin Tin film on 16mm film - estimated somewhere in the 1950's or 1960's (it's a huge reel labeled "Roy Rogers / Rin Tin Tin / Shirley Temple")
            Quote Dalesys:
            ... as in "Ifn thet dawg comes at me, Ima gonna shutz ma panz!"

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