Sunday Night at the Movies: Redskin (1929)
Hey all, sorry right now this is all I can share. Google keeps giving me a violation of terms every time I try to upload a movie even though there are only a few people who come here anyway, this isn't netflix. I'll try to figure out a way around it.
For now I'm uploading one of the few silent colour films that exist. It is called Redskin. Unlike earlier and later films that either vilify the Amerindians, or Whites respectively, this film tries to give a balanced picture. Not all parts of the film are in color. It is fairly good.
From my YouTube page:
This is one of the few silent colour films made that still survive. After attending preparatory school and college in the Eastern United States, Wing Foot (Richard Dix) returns to his Navajo tribe and renounces their customs and beliefs, becoming an outcast among his own people. He later secretly visits the village of a rival tribe in order to see Corn Blossom (Julie Carter), his sweetheart, who has also been to school in the East. Her people discover his presence, and he is forced to flee into the desert, where he discovers oil. Wing Foot has to race to the claims office to get the oil...and try to prevent feuding tribes against fighting each other. I like old silent films; this film was good in that it neither portrayed all of the Amerindians as being completely reprehensible, aggressive, and violent, nor all of the White men as callous and cruel to the Amerindians, as earlier and later films have respectively.
For now I'm uploading one of the few silent colour films that exist. It is called Redskin. Unlike earlier and later films that either vilify the Amerindians, or Whites respectively, this film tries to give a balanced picture. Not all parts of the film are in color. It is fairly good.
From my YouTube page:
This is one of the few silent colour films made that still survive. After attending preparatory school and college in the Eastern United States, Wing Foot (Richard Dix) returns to his Navajo tribe and renounces their customs and beliefs, becoming an outcast among his own people. He later secretly visits the village of a rival tribe in order to see Corn Blossom (Julie Carter), his sweetheart, who has also been to school in the East. Her people discover his presence, and he is forced to flee into the desert, where he discovers oil. Wing Foot has to race to the claims office to get the oil...and try to prevent feuding tribes against fighting each other. I like old silent films; this film was good in that it neither portrayed all of the Amerindians as being completely reprehensible, aggressive, and violent, nor all of the White men as callous and cruel to the Amerindians, as earlier and later films have respectively.
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