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Wooden Shoes
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Directed byRaymond B. West
Written byJ. G. Hawks
StarringBessie Barriscale
Jack Livingston
Joseph J. Dowling
CinematographyCharles J. Stumar
Production
company
Distributed byTriangle Distributing
Release date
  • August 20, 1917 (1917-08-20)
Running time
5 reels
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (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

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Production

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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

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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

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  1. ^ Connelly, Robert B. (1998). The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910–36. December Press. p. 313.
  2. ^ a b "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.
  5. ^ "American Silent Feature Film Database: Wooden Shoes". Library of Congress. Retrieved March 25, 2024.
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