Hiawatha (1909)
- Directed by
- William V. Ranous
- Genre
- silent film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 15 min
- Rating
- 9.0 of 10 from 1 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
This short silent film retells the story of Hiawatha based on a famous epic poem. It follows the Native American hero through key events from the poem.
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What happens
Hiawatha is a 1909 American silent short film directed by William V. Ranous and produced by Carl Laemmle's Independent Moving Pictures Company (IMP). It is based on the 1855 epic poem The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The film is historically significant for being the first production of IMP, the company that later became Universal Pictures. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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