The Gulf Between
Not to be confused with the 1916 short film The Gulf Between directed by Edward Sloman and written by Tom Gibson.
The Gulf Between | |
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Directed by | Wray Physioc |
Written by | Anthony Paul Kelly J. Parker Read Jr. |
Starring | Grace Darmond Niles Welch |
Cinematography | Carl Gregory |
Distributed by | Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation[1] |
Release date |
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Running time | ≤ 58 minutes at 32 frame/sec. (seven reels[1])[a] |
Country | United States |
Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
The Gulf Between is a 1917 American
The Gulf Between, which had a running time of approximately 58 minutes,[3] was directed by Wray Physioc. The lead roles were played by Grace Darmond and Niles Welch.
Plot
As described in the film magazine
The girl grows up with no memory of her former life. The adopted boy moves in the smart set in Mayport, and his parents try to make a match between him and a society girl. Marie (Darmond) is brought to her adoptive father's sister, as the old captain believes she should have the care of a loving woman. She meets young Richard Farrell (Welch) and the two come to love each other. The Farrells do everything they can to break up the couple, but with the help of the captain a marriage is accomplished. There is a stormy meeting between the bridal pair and the parents, during which the captain sees a portrait of Marie as a baby and, realizing the truth, tells the story of her life. The family is reunited and Marie and Richard spend their honeymoon on the captain's ship.
Cast
- Grace Darmond as Marie
- Niles Welch as Richard Farrell
- Herbert Fortier as Robert Farrell
- Violet Axzelle as a young Marie
- Charles Brandt as Captain Flagg
- Joseph Dailey as Cook
- George De Carlton as Dutch
- Caroline Harris as Mrs. Farrell
- Virginia Lee as Millicent Dunston
- Louis Montjoy
- J. Noa as Pete
Production
The Gulf Between was filmed on location in Jacksonville, Florida in 1917 by the Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation, using its two-color "System 1", in which, by means of a prism beam splitter, two consecutive frames of a single strip of black-and-white film were photographed simultaneously, one behind a red filter and the other behind a green filter.
Release
After private trade showings in
Critical reception
Photoplay magazine complained that all colors were reduced into terms of reds and greens, and that "the story is dull, trite, and drawn out interminably."[7]
See also
Notes
- ^ System 1 was photographed and projected at 32 frames per second, twice the normal speed. Thus, seven reels of a Technicolor film were equal to 3.5 reels of a normal film.
- ^ The first three color features were the documentary With Our King and Queen Through India (also known as The Durbar at Delhi, 1912) and the dramas The World, the Flesh and the Devil (1914), and Little Lord Fauntleroy (1914), all filmed in the Kinemacolor process.
References
- ^ a b "The Gulf Between - 1918". Buffalo International Film Festival. Archived from the original on January 26, 2012. Retrieved March 28, 2013.
- ^ "The Gulf Between". Deutsche Kinemathek. Retrieved March 28, 2013.
- ^ "The first Technicolor film was a total disaster a century ago". CNET. 2017-09-09. Retrieved 2018-06-27.
- ^ "Reviews: The Gulf Between". Exhibitors Herald. 5 (15). New York: Exhibitors Herald Company: 27. October 6, 1917.
- Christian Science Monitor, September 14, 1917, p. 4.
- ^ Progressive Silent Film List: The Gulf Between at silentera.com
- ^ "The Shadow Stage", Photoplay, December 1917, p. 118.
External links
- Media related to The Gulf Between at Wikimedia Commons
- The Gulf Between at IMDb
- The Gulf Between at Widescreen Museum with copy of film frame