The Light on Lookout

Directed by Nell Shipman and Bert Van Tuyle

United States, 1923 (fiction, 19 minutes, black and white)

Film Description:
"With a conservationist subplot involving an old-growth forest and timber thieves who capture the honest lone woodsman, the main trajectory of the narrative involves a romance in which a wolf is instrumental and, at the climax, the interventions of Brownie the bear."
-- Kay Armatage (source)

Film Credits (partial):
Written by:	Nell Shipman
Produced by:	Nell Shipman
Principal Cast:	Nell Shipman, Daddy Duffill, Ralph Cochner, Dorothy Winslow, Bert Van Tuyle, Brownie the bear
Cinematography:	Robert S. Newhard, Aubrey Overmeyer
Production Company:	Nell Shipman Productions

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Notes about The Light on Lookout

Silent film.
Part of the series of short films Little Dramas of the Big Places, in which Shipman plays Dreena, a writer who lives in a log cabin.
Shown at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2003 (in the programme 'Canadian Retrospective: The Films of Nell Shipman').

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Bibliography for The Light on Lookout

Brief Sections of Books

Armatage, Kay. The Girl from God's Country: Nell Shipman and the Silent Cinema. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003. (pp. 290-295)