Volume II: Filmography

A YELLOWSTONE HONEYMOON

Production still courtesy of the Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. (F-808)

January 17, 1915 (Sunday)

Length: 1 reel (494 feet)

Character: Drama

Director: Carl Louis Gregory

Scenario: Carl Louis Gregory

Cameraman: Carl Louis Gregory

Cast: Morris Foster (Jack Benedict), Mignon Anderson (May), John Lehnberg (the guide)

Location: Filmed in August-September 1914 in Yellowstone National Park

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.

ADVERTISEMENT, Reel Life, January 9, 1915:

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

SYNOPSIS, Reel Life, January 9, 1915:

"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."

REVIEW, The Morning Telegraph, January 10, 1915: This review is reprinted in the narrative section of the present work.

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