A frame from A Yellowstone Honeymoon. Production still courtesy of the Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

1915Thanhouser CompanyOne reelRomance

A Yellowstone Honeymoon

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The story

“Jack and May were always great lovers of the out-of-doors—as well as of one another, so they decided to spend their honeymoon in the most wonderful place in North America, Yellowstone Park. They had a perfectly blissful time of it until they went out to see the bears. May was frightened nearly to death, and while Jack amused himself with feeding one of the cubs, she took to flight. She ran until she was exhausted. Then, sitting down on the edge of a canyon, she fell asleep in a cozy nook between two boulders, where her frantic husband passed her right by. When she woke she made inquiries of a stolid guide, who had seen nothing of the one she sought. But a little further along, the guide met Jack and told him of the little woman who was weeping at the top of the upper falls. He tore back—discovered his lost bride—and mutual vows were exchanged that never again should they be separated.”

Summary from Reel Life · 9 January 1915

What the papers said

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This review is reprinted in the narrative section of the present work.

The Morning Telegraph · 10 January 1915

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9 January 1915Reel Life1 min

“In which tears and laughter mingle, with Yellowstone Park as the mise-en-scene.”

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Cast and crew

Cast
John Lehnberg as the guide
J. Morris Foster as Jack Benedict
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Carl Louis Gregory

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Filmed in August-September 1914 in Yellowstone National Park
Bowers’ notes
  1. In this film Carl Louis Gregory, the scenario writer, adopts Lloyd F. Lonergan’s favorite character names, May and Jack. 2. The title of this film appeared as A Yellowstone Romance in some listings. 3. A listing in The Biograph gave the length of this film as 494 feet. If footage is correct, the length was exceptionally short to be billed as a one-reeler.
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Still for A Yellowstone Honeymoon. Production still courtesy of the Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

From Volume II: Filmography of Q. David Bowers’ Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, reproduced with permission and unchanged. Read the history of 1915 →

Cite as: Bowers, Q. David. Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, “A Yellowstone Honeymoon”. thanhouser.org/films/a-yellowstone-honeymoon/

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