Wooden Shoes

Wooden Shoes
Wooden Shoes
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Directed by	Raymond B. West
Written by	J. G. Hawks
Starring	Bessie Barriscale; Jack Livingston; Joseph J. Dowling
Cinematography	Charles J. Stumar
Production; company	Triangle Film Corporation
Distributed by	Triangle Distributing
Release date	August 20, 1917;
Running time	5 reels
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

Wooden Shoes is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by Raymond B. West and starring Bessie Barriscale, Jack Livingston, and Joseph J. Dowling.^[1]^[2]

Cast

Bessie Barriscale as Pampy
Jack Livingston as Donald Luther
Joseph J. Dowling as Captain Hendrik von der Bloom
Tom Guise as Rufus Smith
Howard Hickman as Jack Smith
Margaret Thompson as Gertrude Van Hoosen
Don Likes as Fat Boy
Will H. Bray as Dr. Blaisdell
J. Frank Burke as Father Nepomuk
Gertrude Claire as The Mevrouw
J. H. Gotch as Jacob Hauptmann

Production

Village scenes were filmed on the lot of Triangle Studio in Culver City, California.^[3] The village set was later used for In Slumberland (1917) and the Bessie Love film Wee Lady Betty (1917).^[4]

Preservation

With no prints of Wooden Shoes located in any film archives, it is considered a lost film.^[5] In February of 2021, the film was cited by the National Film Preservation Board on their Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films list.^[2]

References

^ Connelly, Robert B. (1998). The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910–36. December Press. p. 313.
^ ^a ^b "Wooden Shoes". afi.com. Retrieved March 25, 2024.
^ Howe, Herbert (February 1918). "Around the World in Twenty Minutes". Picture-Play Magazine. Vol. 7, no. 6. pp. 212–216.
^ "A Convertible Village". Film Fun. October 1917.
^ "American Silent Feature Film Database: Wooden Shoes". Library of Congress. Retrieved March 25, 2024.

External links

Wooden Shoes at IMDb
Synopsis at AllMovie

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[1] Connelly, Robert B. (1998). The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910–36. December Press. p. 313.

[afi-2] "Wooden Shoes". afi.com. Retrieved March 25, 2024.

[3] Howe, Herbert (February 1918). "Around the World in Twenty Minutes". Picture-Play Magazine. Vol. 7, no. 6. pp. 212–216.

[4] "A Convertible Village". Film Fun. October 1917.

[American_Silent_Feature_Film_Database-5] "American Silent Feature Film Database: Wooden Shoes". Library of Congress. Retrieved March 25, 2024.

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