Life on the Border
odd: label: Local Number
content: HSFA 1994.14.6
name: label: Collection Creator
content: National Film and Sound Archive (Australia)
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content: National Film and Sound Archive of Australia films
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Film reel (10 minutes, toned black-and-white silent; 700 feet, 35mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1916
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Film reels
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Incomplete edited film made by Selig Polyscope dramatizes a story of Indians hunting a bear. They arrive at an isolated settler's cabin where they find alcohol. Drunk, they set fire to the cabin and barn, unaware that a woman had been accidentally locked in the barn and her daughter was hiding just outside it. While working in the forest, the woman's husband senses trouble and returns home, just in time to save his family from the flames.  

Legacy Keywords: Indians of North America ; Alcohol drunkenness ; Fire depicted ; Farm life ; Western states (U.S.) ; North America ; United States