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Title Kidnapping by Indians
Date 1899
Document Type Film
Library/Archive BFI National Archive
Collection Mitchell and Kenyon
Notes Black and white.
Topics film, silent
Production Company Mitchell and Kenyon
Duration 00:02:04
Genre drama
Description Girl in embroidered fancy dress and hat waves handkerchief as a long haired man in Ruritanian gypsy outfit runs in to embrace her. An Indian with feathers in his hair and rifle crawls in through undergrowth, followed by a second fantastically dressed girl with revolver. A third girl in tights and feathers dances and a man with rifle and raccoon cap enters. They set fire to structure. Gypsy man emerges firing revolver, is shot and falls. Two more men run in with revolvers and kill or capture the attackers.
Copyright BFI National Archive