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| Directed by Nell Shipman and Bert Van Tuyle |
| United States, 1920 (fiction, 65 minutes, black and white) |
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Film Description: "Something New tells the simple story of a writer who is kidnapped by banditti and whisked away to their desert lair. Her boyfriend comes to her rescue in his trusty Maxwell, driving with incredible skill through extreme desert terrain. The rescue is effected with ludicrous ease, but – as often happens in a Shipman script – the hero is injured and Shipman herself must execute equally amazing feats of driving to save the day." -- Toronto International Film Festival Group (source) |
| Film Credits (partial): | |
| Written by: | Nell Shipman, Bert Van Tuyle |
| Produced by: | B.F. Croghan |
| Principal Cast: | Nell Shipman, Bert Van Tuyle, L.M. Wells, William McCormack, Laddie the dog, the 1920 Maxwell |
| Cinematography: | Joseph B. Walker |
| Film Editing: | Nell Shipman |
| Production Company: | Nell Shipman Productions |
"Perhaps the most intriguing feature of the film is the way in which the
automobile emerges as a quasi-subjective companion and lover whose
relationship with the woman soon displaces the male hero to the visual and
narrative margins."
-- Jennifer Parchesky
(source)
"The film was financed by the Maxwell-Briscoe Motor Company and, as
such, has been dismissed by some critics as merely an extended and
somewhat melodramatic commercial for the off-road capacities of the
Maxwell automobile. But Shipman's collaboration with the automaker
represents less a capitulation of art to commerce than a strategic alliance
enabling her independence from the equally commercial and increasingly
patriarchal studio system."
-- Jennifer Parchesky
(source)
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