1913 Silent Film found in NH barn
 

According to Yahoo news, a barn in New Hampshire was about to be demolished. The owner went out and cleaned some stuff up and came across this film that was well preserved from 1913. It's was a 30 minute silent film about Abe Lincoln played by Francis Ford. He was John Ford's brother. The film is 1 of 8 that starred Ford as Lincoln. The others are nowhere to be found. The film has been restored at a college.

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/...oln-film_N.htm

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Wow. WTF was it doing in there?

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Hey, cows like Movie Night too ...

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That's awesome.

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Meh. It's B&W and it's silent.

Iron Man 2 opens next month!!!!

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Hopefully they'll release it in 3D.

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It's not 2 hrs. and Rated R either.

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It must be the 30 minutes after he died.

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Damn, and I thought this was about the find of the first ever animal sex movie. NH and in a barn, come on!

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Oh, you could get your wish. I hear Abe Lincoln was totally into bestiality. You won't read THAT in the history books!

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According to a book I saw at Wal Mart Lincoln was into killing vampires.

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It was found four years ago. It's just now going to be screened.

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I thought Lincoln was accurately described by the family in "I'm Gonna Get You Sucka." Everything else I read about him now is just filler.

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Looking forward to seeing it.

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Back in 1913, there weren't a lot of purpose-built theaters outside of cities. People who wanted to show movies would use any large interior space they could find, and barns were perfect. Remember, at the time all you really needed to show movies was a projector, a white sheet on a clothesline, and some chairs.

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So you're saying the Klan was active in New Hampshire in 1913?

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/\ 1913? I've come across a few spots where they are very much active to this day, sadly.

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Still true today, although I don't have any chairs.

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Nice find. Always like these kind of stories.

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Ditto. my fav type of these is when they found that LAST piece of Metropolis. Just mindblowing it was.

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But where did they plug in the projector?

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It was hand cranked.

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That's what she said.

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zing!!!!!

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Another cool find:

A man in England bought a film canister on eBay for $5 and it turned out that it contained a lost Chaplin propaganda short from 1916.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/f...Bay-for-5.html