The First Native American Movie - White Fawn's Devotion (1910)

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3 жыл бұрын

White Fawn's Devotion is the earliest surviving film directed by a Native American - James Young Deer. The movie was shot in New Jersey at 24fps.
In 2008, the movie was added to the United States National Film Registry as being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
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@JustAnAverageWoman69 Жыл бұрын

So cool to see the Native people of that era living, breathing, moving, rather than just a portrait. Amazing!

@singatune Жыл бұрын

This film was released and made public by Library of Congress. They rekease one film each year. White Fawn was played by Lucille Younge. Digital copies of films in Library of Congress can be obtain for cost of processing to a flash drive. I obtained a film with Lucille Younge which is available on KZfaq. Behind the Times 1911 with Owen Moore and Ethel Grandin.

@raising5kiddos Жыл бұрын

The chief was spectacular! I really enjoyed watching this. Amazing how many of life’s problems are caused by communication breakdowns.

@sirbig8292 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing, thank you for sharing this. I especially loved the acting of the "Chief".

@kevingriffith9626 3 жыл бұрын

This is so cool! Please post more stuff like this, this has been an excellent channel so far. Love it.

@j.michaeljefferson60 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing, the fact's of this video are fantastic

@howardcraigiv518 2 жыл бұрын

So awesome, this is some great history. I have a fascination with older film and movie. Silent films just carry this eerie feeling about them and it intrigues me

@JONINXBOX 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for posting this!, a true moment of film history right here and a simple story which even at 111 years old! Is still capable of holding my attention and watching it right to the end..

@Modernartprintsgallery 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing movie. Thanks for this and keep it up.

@PattPlays Жыл бұрын

My comment was going to be "misunderstanding is the root of human suffering" but that last frame a chief pointing "out" That tribe becomes a reservation. That family becomes a nobility. Because of one gesture.

@davidroberts5577 3 жыл бұрын

Very nice, thanks for posting this ☮️🕉️

@matthewfarmer2520 Жыл бұрын

Awesome thanks for sharing, i like native American history.👍 Take Care

@travistracht7160 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome!Thanks.

@x5775 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for showing an example of silent film. I'm not sure about how accurately it portrays the Native American. While maybe not in film format, there are more accurate ways to depictions of Native Americans.

@asintonic 3 жыл бұрын

👏 BRAVO!

@BrownistKidUKnow 3 жыл бұрын

Could you make a video on chichimecs

@chasemurraychristopherdola7108 3 жыл бұрын

I can’t believe that this movie was shot in the state that I grew up in and currently live in

@micahistory 3 жыл бұрын

interesting. I never heard of this

@smokeyjoe6177 3 жыл бұрын

There's no sound

@micahistory 3 жыл бұрын

@@smokeyjoe6177 i know

@emilyvogt66 3 жыл бұрын

@@smokeyjoe6177 All movies were silent until "The Jazz Singer" (the very first "talkie", or movie with sound) was released in 1927. 🙂

@ptryner2363 10 ай бұрын

@@emilyvogt66 Many silents had "sound" years before 1927 in the form of music accompaniment, whether original for the film or later an added score. Here, unless someone adds it, there is none.

@davidbingley6734 2 ай бұрын

Not bad at all for 1910. Feels so authentic also. None of that sappy Hollywood crap which would be soon to come.

@VNV67 2 жыл бұрын

First time I ever see Native American wear tights. And that house, walls were pretty thin. All kidding aside Thanks for sharing this one...

@magabre3212 2 жыл бұрын

Is this the inspiration for Disneys Pocahontas...? Cuz it kinda seems like it is. Like I dont mean it in a rude way or anything but especially like the last 20 seconds of the film

@johnh.mcsaxx3637 2 жыл бұрын

The inspiration for Pocahantas was from John Smith's 1616 story. Smith told a number of stories in different settings - in one, he is taken prisoner by Tatars after battle, then sold as a slave to a Greek mistress who falls in love with him. He then escapes to what is now Russia, and after a long odyssey in Europe and North Africa he returns to England.

@ptryner2363 10 ай бұрын

The Pocahontas visual connection at the end of the movie has been cited by many. Those early silents were strongly influenced by literary sources, Pocahontas being one of them. Scholars have also noted that Young Deer simply reversed The Squaw Man's story, already an established play back in 1905. In White Fawn's Devotion, instead of the Native woman killing herself when she believes her white husband abandons her, she feigns death and is happily reunited with him.