The Squaw Man (1914 film)

The Squaw Man known as The White Man in the UK is a 1914 silent western drama film starring Dustin Farnum and codirected by Cecil B. DeMille.

This first screen version of the story was the legendary DeMilles first movie assignment. It also holds the distinction of being the first featurelength movie filmed specifically in Hollywood. DeMille wanted to emphasize the outdoors and wanted to shoot the movie in a place that had exotic scenery and great vistas. Initially he traveled to Flagstaff, Arizona to film the movie. After seeing the vast amount of mountains near Flagstaff the filming was moved to the Los Angeles area. It was not the first film to be made in the Los Angeles area, and film historians agree that shorts had previously been filmed in Hollywood, with In Old California considered the earliest. Harbor scenes were shot in San Pedro, California and the western saloon set was built beside railroad tracks in the San Fernando Valley. Footage of cattle on the open range were shot at Keen Camp near Idyllwild, California, while snow scenes were shot at Mount Palomar. Cecil B. DeMille felt that lighting in a movie was extremely important and viewed lighting as the visual and emotional foundation to build out his image. He believed that lighting was to a film as music is to an opera.The Squaw Man went on to become the only movie successfully filmed three times by the same directorproducer, DeMille. He filmed a silent remake in 1918, and a talkie version in 1931. The Squaw Man was 74 minutes long and generated 244,700 in profit. ........

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