Virginian Types: Blue Ridge Mountaineers

Silent short. Documentary
-Year: ~1926
-Year in film: ~1926
-Country: USA
-Who in bibs: boys
-Available on DVD: yes
-I own: no
-Bib occurrence: medium *
-Rating:  5/10 ?
-Rating: *****
-Comment: At least these 3 boys in worn bibs. At least one sitting on a fence next to a girl.

This is a short film (2 minutes) and previously considered lost. It's available on the DVD "Lost and Found: American Treasures From the New Zealand Film Archive" along some other movies including a rare feature film from Hitchcock.

I found this during research for my western blog. And I only have seen some pics and not the complete movie. Produced by Pathé Exchange.

I can't say much more about it. But looks very interesting.

It was (then ?) colorized and hand tinted using stencils. Not sure if this movie is or was copyrighted. The remastered DVD with the new musical score probably is. Maybe the copyright was renewed or bought. The lost or orphan movies were found and I think donated by a collector to the non-profit film preservation project which is part of loc.gov.

The pic is taken from dvdtalk. com. I use Fair Use licence anyway.

Rating 5 for now.