Kit Carson (1903) Background

The idea of a longer film with interconnected scenes possibly came to director Wallace McCutcheon after viewing duplicate prints of such British chase-and-capture films as Bloodhounds (Robert W. Paul), A Daring Daylight Robbery (Frank Mottershaw) and A Desperate Poaching Affray (Walter Haggar).   The wide open spaces of America must have seemed an ideal location for such a film, and McCutcheon took his cast (now unknown) to the Adirondack Mountains, New York, where filming began on 3^rd September.   Filming of Kit Carson was completed by the 8^th, and The Pioneers was wrapped on 1th September.   Both were released in October 1903. [ADD]

 Sources:  The First moderns: Profiles in the Origins of 20^th Century Thought by William R Everdell; Imdb.com)

1903

USA: 1903

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