Blue Water (film) explained

Blue Water
Producer:Ernest Shipman
Cinematography:Walter L. Griffin
Studio:New Brunswick Films
Distributor:Ernest Shipman Films
Country:Canada
Language:Silent
English intertitles

Blue Water is a lost 1924 Canadian silent film directed by David Hartford and starring Pierre Gendron, Jane Thomas, and Norma Shearer. It is the last feature produced by Ernest Shipman, and is the Montreal-born, future MGM star Shearer's only Canadian film. It had a commercial release in Saint John, New Brunswick, where it was shot, but no print is known to exist.[1] [2] The film failed to succeed commercially, marking Shipman's decline in success until his death in 1931.[3] Without being distributed, the film was stored in a New York vault.[4]

The film has no surviving copies,[5] making it a lost film.[6]

Bibliography

Notes and References

  1. Book: Morris. Peter. Embattled Shadows: A History of Canadian Cinema 1895-1939. 1978. McGill-Queen's University Press. Montreal. 0-7735-0323-4. 120.
  2. Jacobs & Braum p.80
  3. News: Soucoup . Dan . Blue Water: New Brunswicks first feature film . 28 April 2024 . . 28 October 2000. .
  4. Web site: Ernest Shipman . nble.lib.unb.ca . NBLE . 28 April 2024.
  5. News: Eaton . Margaret Patricia . Take a break with a good author this summer; 1st Annual Atlantic Author Day celebrates who we are. . 28 April 2024 . Here . 9 July 2009. .
  6. News: Webb . Steven . Lost to history, Saint John's silent movie is barely a memory a century later . 22 August 2023 . September 11, 2022.