The Trail of the North Wind

Directed by Nell Shipman and Bert Van Tuyle

United States, 1923 (fiction, 22 minutes, black and white)

Image: Spokane Daily Chronicle, August 28, 1924

Video (Howard Anderson Idaho Film Archive, Boise State University)

Film Description:
"The impetus for the plot of Trail of the North Wind—a simple tale of wilderness travail—is grandpa getting caught in an animal trap."
-- Kay Armatage (source)

Film Credits (partial):
Written by:	Nell Shipman
Produced by:	Nell Shipman
Principal Cast:	Daddy Duffill, Barry Shipman, Nell Shipman, Ralph Cochner, Aubrey Overmeyer, Tex the malamute
Cinematography:	Robert S. Newhard
Production Company:	Nell Shipman Productions

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Notes about The Trail of the North Wind

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 in the woods.
Shown at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2003 (in the programme 'Canadian Retrospective: The Films of Nell Shipman').

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Quote about The Trail of the North Wind

"Trail of the North Wind hinges around communication with nature in all its aspects. Dreena, the heroine, is identified first as the 'story-girl' because she listens to the 'voices of the wilderness'—the babbling brook, a bear sniffing the air, and the personified North Wind himself—and translates them for people."
-- Kay Armatage (source)

Bibliography for The Trail of the North Wind

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. 268-272)