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Nell Shipman Silent Film Festival - Held in honor
of the publication of The Silent Screen & My Talking
Heart by Nell Shipman, silent screenwriter, actress, producer,
director, and editor.
The Nell Shipman Silent Film Festival (January-March 1987) featured
 | broadcasts of Gary Lacher's Cinema Antique series, |
| publication of Shipman's autobiography, The Silent Screen
& My Talking Heart, |
| an exhibition of photographs and artifacts chronicling the career of
Shipman (from Seattle to Hollywood and North Idaho) entitled "From Pantages to Priest
Lake," |
| the Idaho premiere of Frank Capra's Lost Horizon
(photographed by Joseph Walker, Shipman's cinematographer), |
| a keynote address, "Women in Film," by Mollie Gregory, |
| a movie animal training workship, "Making Lassie Bark and
Trigger Trot," with Morlan Nelson and Nina Shipman, |
| publication of D. J. Turner's Canada's Recovery and Restoration of Back to God's Country, |
| the re-premiere of Shipman's Back to God's Country, |
| and a festival of silent films, including Phantom of the Opera,
The Ten Commandments, The Freshman, The Scarlet Letter, and The Lodger, and |
| concluding with a symposium, "Retrieval, Restoration, and
Evaluation of Early Films, From Hollywood to Home Movies." |
"From Pantages to Priest Lake" [5b&w thumbnails, 1
color postcard]
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