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DESCRIPTION:Weekly Film Series in the Art Hive\n\nThursday March 15th  2-4p
 m | Art Hive in Library 1st Floor. Education Building 3700 McTavish\n\nThe
  Silent Enemy (1928) Directed by H.P. Carver\, Douglas Burden\, Producer (
 82 min.)\n\nThis silent film\, The Silent Enemy: An Epic of the American I
 ndian\, was purported to show the traditional ways of Ojibwe people\, and 
 unusually for its time\, employed Native Americans as actors\, extras and 
 advisors. \n\nThe film was under-appreciated when it was shown in the earl
 y 1930s though reviewers of the time stated\, The Silent Enemy... it is be
 autiful\, it is superbly acted and in many of its scenes\, tremendously ex
 citing…” (Robert Sherwood\, review of The Silent Enemy\, Toronto Star). Th
 e desire to make a film that would authentically record pre-contact Native
  American life was very much at the heart of Burden’s production.\n\nThe a
 ctors in the film are another interesting facet of this film\, the produce
 r attempted to hire Anishinaabe from northern Ontario but was not a succes
 sful as he had hoped – instead the film includes actors who were from othe
 r locales – the main actors were Chauncey Yellow Robe\, (Sioux\, c. 1867-1
 930) and Molly Alice Nelson (Penobscot\, 1903-1977) a vaudevillian dancer 
 known as Molly Spotted Elk and “Buffalo Child Long Lance” an actor who had
  participated in Wild West Shows\, however before the film opened Long Lan
 ce was found to have been born Sylvester Clark Long a man of mixed heritag
 e (African American\, white and possibly Cherokee).\n\nThe film was lost f
 or many years\, until the original version was found in the 1970s.\n	 \n
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SUMMARY:[Weekly Indigenous Film Series] 'The Silent Enemy' (Carver\, 1928)
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