Film Record: Rise and Fall of Susan Lennox, The

Still from The Rise and Fall of Susan Lennox. Northeast Historic Film.

Identifier:

• 2313.0011 (Source: oldfilm.org)

Date produced: 1930

Filmmaker(s):

Sidney Shurcliff

Country of Production:

United States

Languages:

English

Duration:

00:04:26

Length:

200 ft

Format:

16mm

Colour:

B&W

Sound Notes:

Silent

Awards/Recognition:

Northeast Historic Films list of titled amateur work

Description:

"A fender-bender drama calling for driving the cars up and down crashing into each other and trying to force each other off the road." oldfilm.org

Resources:

Part of the Alan Bemis Collection held at Northeast Historic Film.

Discussed by Martha J. McNamara, “Comedic Counterpoise: Landscape and Laughs in the Films of Sidney N. Shurcliff,” in Martha J. McNamara and Karan Sheldon, Amateur Movie Making: Aesthetics of the Everyday in New England Film, 1915-1960, 2017.

Locations:

• Concord, NH (Filming)

Genre:

• Comedy

Form:

• Short

Tags:

Repository:

Alan Bemis Collection, Northeast Historic Film

Video Link:

• via Northeast Historic Film

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