An Indian Love Story (1911)

Directed by

Fred J. Balshofer

Genre

silent film

Country

United States

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two married couples in a Native American community are each having affairs with the other's spouse or a former lover. The film follows the personal relationships and romantic conflicts between them.

early cinematicrestrainedmelodramaticsimplemuteddatedquietly emotional

What happens

An Indian Love Story is a one-reel silent short film about personal relationships in a Native American community. The film is about two married couples, each of the partners of which are involved with the spouse of the other couple, a former lover. It is a western drama released in 1911 and directed by Fred J. Balshofer and was produced by Bison (a brand name under the New York Motion Picture Company). It was also titled An Indian Love Affair. This film is one of the many films that claims to have utilized Native American actors, although Mona Darkfeather's heritage is not entirely clear. The description of the story in Moving Picture World said that no white people appeared as characters in the story's contest and didn't clarify whether the cast included only Native Americans. Previously, Lillian St. Cyr, a Winnebago Indian, had appeared in Kalem's The White Squaw and Lubin's The Falling Arrow. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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